“Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins: How to Use Your Own Stories to Communicate with Power and Impact” by Annette Simmons

This blog post was written by Dave Carpenter. Dave is a prolific author, inspiring speaker, and well-known consultant to professional service firms. Besides writing regularly for this blog, Dave’s writing can be seen in leading business and personal development publications. He is the creator of the Accelerate Success program which helps high performers to improve results in any aspect of one’s life, while also uniquely benefiting one’s favorite charity. You can follow … [Read more...]

5 Steps to Reversing the Slide to Mediocrity in Your Personal Life

So you have decided, based on my last post, that that you may have mediocrity creeping into your life. Welcome to the club! Few among us don't begin to experience, and even accept, mediocrity in some aspect of our life, at some time in our life. Winners know that slide to mediocrity can be such a slippery slope. So they challenge themselves to do something...to arrest the slide. They commit to liberating the soul from the lies we so often tell ourselves that it really … [Read more...]