I never use my job title when I introduce myself. Instead of reciting your HR job title, tell others how you add value the organization.

Life does that to us, doesn’t it — come at inconvenient times in inconvenient ways asking more of us than we think we’re ready to give. Great leaders know that inconvenience transforms us and pushes us out of our comfortable box into unlimited potential.

Are you a people leader or people eater? And then I realized, sometimes those things are the same.

When you promote from within your company you’re not starting from scratch. You’re bringing over the passion and knowledge and values of your company to this new position. You’re using a bit of the sourdough starter you’ve been brewing on the counter for years.

How often do we do that? Stop too soon. Fail to take one more step. Fail to do the one last thing that will put us where we need to be. Fail to plot our course.

It is easy to become discouraged when the lion's share of the attention falls on one or two. All the attention in the world wouldn't have helped Neil Armstrong if Michael Collins had decided fly home without him.

Sometimes life seems such a heavy burden to bear. We let problems grow out of proportion. It swallows us up. We lie trapped under a pile of dirty dishes, unable to move, unable to find the way.

That young lady knows the secret not many know: You don’t always have to win to win.

We're like that, you and I. We become what we practice. We echo the attitude we surround ourselves with. We live the life we repeat. We do what we've learned to do. And, we do it over and over and over again.