One Key Way to Demonstrate Confidence In the face of crisis, you cannot stay calm without confidence. You can be apathetic. That’s nihilism, not calmness. That’s doubtfulness and uncertainty that leads to giving up—the complete opposite of confidence. True...
One Tool for Handling Anger “I don’t know what to have for breakfast,” my daughter stated one morning, as if it was an accusation. Of felony. I gave several breakfast suggestions. She rejected them all. She wanted a certain thing we lacked ingredients for, and...
How Good Leaders Handle Stress When I think back over all the dinner parties, showers, church gatherings and various events I’ve hosted over the years, one stands out as a complete and total disaster: Turkey Day in May. Several years ago, after eight months of...
How to Tear Down, How to Build Up In my previous life, before I became a coach and speaker, I was a pianist. I still sometimes play piano at church, along with several other people. Some are beginners, and I try to encourage and support them. It always...
How to Move Past Emotions When You’re Stuck Do you consider yourself an emotional person? Some highly sensitive people may immediately shoot their hands up and say, “Yes, that’s me!” Other more stoic types might shake their heads no, possibly derisively. Here’s...
Be Calm & Confident on the Phone Phone interviews are not an “easy” version of in-person interviews. Sometimes they create even more anxiety than a face-to-face meeting. In this article that I wrote for the Jobscan blog, I shared ways to prepare...
