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Podcast Episode #15: 5 Tips To Face Uncertainty With Confidence

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Hello, and welcome to the Leadership Done Right podcast, Episode 15: 5 Tips To Face Uncertainty With Confidence.

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Here Comes the Baby… Not Yet!

Many of you know that my wife is currently pregnant with our fourth child. My wife and I and our kids are very excited for the new addition to our family.

We are at the point right now where she is due any day. We live about 90 miles away from the hospital which is about an hour and a half drive once she starts labor. So, once she starts labor we have to head to the hospital so that we get there in time.

For any of you that have children, you probably remember the excitement and uncertainty that comes as you wait for the baby to come into the world. It is a fun time but also challenging with anxiety. We know the baby will come soon, but we don’t know when.

We are both planners that like to schedule everything. We plan our days, weeks, and months in advance both at work and at home. That makes the uncertainty all the more fun and challenging. To ease the uncertainty, we have taken several steps to prepare for the birth.

Types of Uncertainty

Now, since my wife is healthy and all the pregnancy health assessments and baby are healthy, we don’t have big concerns about birth defects or the health of my wife. Our uncertainty is mostly due to the timing of the baby’s birth. That uncertainty is exciting and even minimal when compared to the uncertainty that others go through. Many people have to deal with the uncertainly of illness, potential job-loss, natural disasters, or family afflictions. [Read more…] about Podcast Episode #15: 5 Tips To Face Uncertainty With Confidence

This Week’s Leadership Fav Five!

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A great way to improve your leadership skills and abilities is to study and then practice leadership.  In the last few months, I have worked really hard to study and learn better leadership skills through reading leadership books and blogs.  From there, I have done all I could to practice what I learned.  This approach has helped me to improve my leadership abilities.This Week's Leadership Fav Five!

This week, the following blog posts were some of my favorites.

Four Strategies To Make Your Vision A Reality By Todd Nielsen

Vision, strategy, and goals are important …but they are not enough. One of the greatest challenges in business—and frankly, one of the greatest challenges in life—is doing the things necessary to make one’s vision a reality.

To ensure the realization of your vision, you need to set up structures and processes that act as guardrails to keep you from falling off the path.
1.  Get Organized
2.  Tracking And Measurement
3.  Accountability
4.  Rewards More…

Brandon’s Thought’s
This is a great post.  It goes hand-in-hand with a post that I did the other day about vision.  In leadership it is so important to have a vision!  Todd’s steps to make your vision a reality are great.  If you skip any one of the first three steps you will not reach your goals of obtaining your vision. [Read more…] about This Week’s Leadership Fav Five!