Showing posts with label focus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label focus. Show all posts

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Be the One

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Every year, Solution Linx Online Coaching hosts a fabulous event where leadership speakers are featured via simulcast.  The speakers inspire, provoke conversation, focus on change, bring ideas forward and create a motivating environment to put words into action. 

As part of a follow up to the Leadercast event, Solution Linx will also host a facilitated discussion on the leadership topics from the past year.  You can click here and complete the form to find out more.

You can attend a Leadercast event near you by visiting http://www.leadercast.com/.  If you are in the Windsor-Essex County area of Ontario, you can attend at the St Clair Centre for the Arts - click here to find out more information

Thursday, July 15, 2010

When I Grow Up...

When you were asked what you wanted to be when you grew up, what did you say? Is that what you do today? Did you have a title or an image of what that was like ‘a fireman’, or ‘a teacher’ or ‘ the president’? A friend of mine wanted to be a snake – and only eat bad people! I’ll bet you didn’t say I wanted to be an empowering and empathic person in my community, or I want to be super-mom or super-dad, or I want to have the highest performing team. As kids, we think in visuals that we see around us – it is hard to see ‘empowering and empathetic’ or ‘parenting and time-management skills’ or ‘teambuilding skills’.

As we grew into mature adults, we began to see the world differently and set out parameters for our behavior and our skills. Sometimes we limited ourselves believing in what we could or could not accomplish.

Mahatma Ghandi said “A man is but a product of his own thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”


I look at my children and see that they live this philosophy so much better than I did. They are focused on career plans that include leadership ability and skills, as well as physical talent and mental aptitude. They see they can be anything they want without limitations that they put on themselves – this can even be called a dream. But it is not, it is their own belief – what they will become with focus, hard-work and dedication. And I believe they will, because they believe it.