Tag Archives: Personal development

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Building Resilience: Thriving In The Face Of Adversity

Leading an organization or team throws multiple challenges at you. From dealing with difficult people, to making life-changing decisions, and making mistakes, leadership requires you to be resilient.

If you can’t bounce back from the challenges thrown your way, you won’t last long as a leader. We don’t want that. Neither do you!

So, how do you build resilience as a leader? It’s not easy, but you can do it.

5 Strategies For Thriving In The Face Of Adversity (Or How To Build Resilience)

You may not feel confident enough to build your resilience, but you can. Even when you lack the resilience you need to keep going in your daily tasks, you can apply some of what you do have to build more. 

It seems counterintuitive, but you can. Now, let’s dive into the strategies to help you become more resilient.  Read more...

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Celebrating Success And Learning From Failure As A Leader

We experience good times and bad times as a leader. Those good times come from leadership successes and seeing people grow. The bad times? Those are the times we’ve failed to do what we know is right, a project goes south, or we experience an issue with team members.

There’s good news regardless of whether or not you’ve experienced success or failure. You can learn and celebrate both.

Celebrating Success And Learning From Failure As A Leader

We must celebrate success and learn from our failures. It’s how we grow and continue to thrive as leaders. People get excited when they see their good works praised. They grow and thrive when they see how they can learn from their failures.

Think about the times you’ve failed. What happens? You may beat yourself up. You may tell yourself that you never do anything right.   Read more...

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From The Polar Express

A Reel Leadership Article

My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available on Amazon. If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book.

Welcome to the second movie in the Christmas At The Movies series. It’s a fun look at Christmas movies and the leadership lessons they can teach. We’ve partnered with our church, The Gateway Church, to provide supplemental content as they share the faith-based lessons these movies can teach.

Red movie theater curtains

Today, we’re diving into the leadership lessons in The Polar Express. Fun fact for those of you who haven’t been following Reel Leadership and the blog for an extended period of time, I welcomed my friend, James W. Schreier, to share his thoughts on it. He’s a lover of leadership and trains. It was a perfect fit for him. Now, we’re bringing you our take on this family-friendly movie.  Read more...

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Christmas At The Movies

My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available on Amazon. If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book.

I’ve partnered with my church, The Gateway Church, for a mini-series called Christmas At The Movies. In my blog posts, I will examine the leadership and personal development lessons movies can teach. The Gateway Church will examine the spiritual and life lessons you can take away from them.

Red movie theater curtains

It’s a great partnership and one that works well for this blog. 

Today’s Reel Leadership Christmas At The Movies movie is the 1966 classic Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! It’s the story of the Grinch (voiced by Boris Karloff), a mean green creature, who hates Christmas and will stop at nothing to destroy the joy, hope, and love of the people of Whoville.   Read more...

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How Strong Leaders Build Mental And Emotional Well-Being

It’s becoming increasingly apparent how important our mental and emotional well-being is. From leaders’ moral failures to the stories of leaders and pastors committing suicide, the focus has shifted from results to health.

Our mental health matters. Our emotional health matters. 

While we know this, we regularly ignore their importance. We look for ways to skirt around our mental and emotional health. We believe we can take care of it at some later time.

You can’t. And you won’t.

In fact, you might get to a point you can never take care of them. You’ll get to a point where you make the ultimate decision in your life.

I don’t want that to happen to you. I want you to live a vibrant, thriving life. I want you to be healthy and whole.  Read more...