As much as news media and advertisers would have you believe differently, every situation that you encounter is not owed a response on your part. In fact responding to every situation a leader encounters leads to an unnecessary drain of… Read More ›
Emotional Composure
Graphic Leadership: The Happiness Check
Rational Emotive Therapy teaches that happiness can be determined by how you answer three basic questions: What do I need (as opposed to want) in life? What can others psychologically (versus physically) do to me? What does the world owe… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Experiencing Life
Rational Emotive Therapy teaches that life is to be experienced not necessarily reacted to. Leaders understand that being reactionary is incongruent with being a leader. A leader acts not reacts. Nevertheless, the discipline necessary to break the habit of knee… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Upset
Rational Emotive Therapy teaches that I don’t get upset nor does someone make me upset nor upset me. The accurate way to say it is I upset myself. Once I begin using that phrase and accepting responsibility for being upset,… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Rational Emotive Therapy
You Can Control Your Feelings! by Bill Borcherdt, ACSW explains the basic tenets of Rational Emotive Therapy. Through learning new ways of verbally expressing yourself, you change the way you think, feel, and behave. This poster has phrases that although… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: The Productivity Of Worry
As we just saw in the previous poster, lack of forgiveness is one of the two most common energy drains confronting a leader. The second is worry. Please type the words worry and fear into the search box on this site to… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: An Energy Drain
With a leader possessing only a finite amount of energy, s/he must guard and channel that energy with a deliberateness not required of a follower. Lack of forgiveness is one of the two greatest energy drainers against which a leader… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Appreciation
Could it be this simple? Earlier in this series we looked at a poster entitled Gratitude – seeking to discover what it takes to attain and maintain gratefulness. This poster reminds the leader of the indispensable role appreciation plays in… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Breaking Yourself
In the earlier poster on The Drama Triangle, we saw how trying to rescue someone (as opposed to helping them) can lead to the demise of the Rescuer. This poster puts the warning even more succinctly. Yet the reminder to… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Maintaining Happiness
This equation gets to the point. Our HAPPINESS equals our REALITY over our EXPECTATIONS. When our REALITY equals or exceeds our EXPECTATIONS, we find ourselves filled with HAPPINESS. When that is not the case, I believe we have really… Read More ›
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