purpose

May 09 2019

Plan Your Best Week Ever – Free Template

We all have a choice.

To tell you the truth, you’ve already made the choice. You are either living and growing on purpose – proactively according to a written plan. Or you are living reactively – subject to the needs and demands of your environment and those around you. It’s one or the other – accidental or intentional.

This post is part of the series – Get Your Life Back!
Take Control of Your Schedule
4 Tips for Managing Your Calendar More Effectively
Plan Your Year with Your Annual Plan
Create Your Best Week
You Can Keep Up With Your Email
The Secret for Managing Email More Efficiently

I have done both. And I can tell you from experience that it’s far more fulfilling to live with purpose – knowing what is most important and intentionally working toward it every day.

I’ve written previous posts about how developing my personal life plan, business vision, and business plan brought about dramatic improvements in my life and work.

Although I had very specific plans in place, I realized I also needed a tool to be more effective with my top priorities and decision-making.

Nov 06 2018

My Annual Review Template – Free Download!

I asked her, “What do you want your life to mean?”

Sitting across the cafe table from our 8-year-old daughter, I waited patiently for her response. She spent the next 45 minutes telling me her dreams – for her life, for her friends, for her work, for her family.

She talked a lot about what she is doing at this point in her life – about today. As I listened, I was reminded – [Tweet “The only way to have a great future is to have a lot of great todays.”]

Oct 06 2018

The Importance of My Annual Review Template and Guide

Before you know it, a new year will be here. So it’s time for your annual review. Have you ever considered using an annual review template to keep you on track during your review?

It seems like the years get shorter and shorter with each passing year. And if you’re like me you’ve already identified several goals for the new year.

I’ve learned that, if I am going to live out the things that are most important to me, I must plan regular, purposeful time away to reflect on the past and look forward into the future.

Last week, I spent two days alone in East Texas conducting my annual review. While I was away, I spent time relaxing, reflecting, thinking, praying. And I made significant progress in a couple of areas in which my growth had stalled.

I am regularly asked what I do during this time away so in this post I’m going to give you my guide & template for how I prepare for my annual review.

Jun 22 2015

Job Description – 5 Reasons Your Team Needs It

The Job Description – 5 Reasons Your Team Needs It is a guest post by Dr. Ryan Hartwig. Ryan is co-author of Teams That Thrive and associate professor of communication at Azusa Pacific University. Find him online at ryanhartwig.com and on Twitter.

What if every team in your organization had a job description? What if every team had clarity about the team’s purpose, and how that purpose was different from other teams and individuals in the organization?

In today’s world, it’s common for most positions in organizations to have a written job description. The job description provides focus, clarifies expectations, delineates qualifications for job candidates, and outlines the criteria for performance evaluation.

But what about teams?

Apr 08 2015

Rejection – Turning it into Direction

Turning Rejection into Direction is a guest post by Jevonnah “Lady J” Ellison, an industry-leading Purpose Strategist and Executive Leadership Coach. She equips lawyers, doctors, engineers, professionals, and leaders with confidence and clarity so that they can live out their authentic purpose and experience incredible success. You can read her blog here and follow her on Twitter.

Everyone fears rejection.

Rejection is a type of communication that says someone else really doesn’t matter to us, or that he or she doesn’t measure up to a standard we’ve created or adopted. Whatever the form of behavior, rejection communicates disrespect, low value, and lack of appreciation.

Few things hurt like rejection.

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When I was 7, my Dad walked out. On Christmas Eve.