Relevant Leadership Blog

Reflections & Projections

Many of you know I celebrated my birthday last Saturday. I turned 30. Turning 30 really caused me to reflect on the last decade and what I have been able to accomplish and contribute and to set new goals for the decade ahead. So this post is a bit personal, but my purpose is two fold: 1. I want to thank you for being part of my life in the last 10 years. 2. I want to share my goals with you so that you will hold me accountable. I want to start by saying that I feel like 30

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Interview With Millionaire Entrepreneur

I am excited to introduce to you the first of many interviews that I will be conducting and giving to you absolutely free. This series, Leadership Inc Interviews will be monthly interviews with some of the top thought leaders, authors, speakers, & entrepreneurs that have impacted me personally. Today’s interview is with Todd Smith and I can’t wait for you to learn from Todd! Todd is a multi-millionaire entrepreneur who has excelled in several industries. Todd is the founder of Little Things Matter and the author of the book by the same title – Little Things Matter. The thing I

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The Power of Kindness

William Wordsworth said, “The best portion of a good man’s life – his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.” When our family put together our family purpose, we discussed our values, passions, and talents. My wife and I both felt a strong desire to put a priority on serving others, to reach out, to help, and to uplift. We added to our purpose statement a motto: Serve God, Serve Each Other, Serve Others. To reinforce this motto, every night before we go to bed, we each share how we helped or served somebody that day. Our four-year-old daughter

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A Wish For Leaders

I sincerely wish you will have the experience of thinking up a new idea, planning it, organizing it, and following it to completion, and then having it be magnificently successful. I also hope you’ll go through the same process and have something “bomb-out.” I wish you could know how it feels “to run” with all your heart and lose – horribly. I wish that you could achieve some great good for mankind, but have nobody know about it except for you. I wish you could find something so worthwhile that you deem it worthy of investing your life. I hope

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A Networking Observation

Yesterday I went to a networking event for lunch. There were about 80 people there and we were assigned to tables with 8 at each table. The conversation was good, but superficial throughout the lunch. The typical question was directed at the name of the company on the name tag. “Tell me about XYZ company?” or “What do you do at XYZ?” Then the event director introduced an activity. We went around the table and each of us had two minutes to answer a personal question and then 2 minutes to talk about what we do professionally. The personal question

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5 Lessons About the Way We Treat People

1 – First Important Lesson – Cleaning Lady. During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions until I read the last one: “What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?” Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times. She was tall, dark-haired and in her 50’s, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Just before class ended, one student asked if the last

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