In this week’s Dr. Rob I would like to share with you some of the take-aways from our last Leaders Connect breakfast on surviving cancer with Steve Sarns, Kathy Macdonald, Heather FeldKamp, Larry Eiler, and Jan Hansen. Steve Sarns: Have faith in a greater power Stay positive – it takes 10 positive thoughts to defeat one negative thought Power of Music – Listen to music from your youth – I listened to early Chicago music, it filled my heart and …
Boost Your Resiliency Quotient Last week, at my Leaders Connect Breakfast, we were deeply moved and inspired by five peoples’ stories of persevering and battling through cancer. Heather Feldkamp, Steve Sarns, Larry Eiler, Kathy Macdonald, and Jan Hansen each described how they called upon their own inner strength, their own strategy for resiliency to survive. “Resiliency” is the ability to rebound from hardship, difficulty and misfortune, and successfully adapt to adverse situations. Heather, Steve, Larry, Kathy, and Jan each identified specific resiliency strategies …
Life Lessons from Cancer Survivors All of our stories are fascinating. We relish sharing stories about joy and good fortune. Telling stories about troubling times: that’s a different matter. For most of us, we’d rather keep the difficult times to ourselves. Yet, it is often from hearing about these difficult struggles that we can learn the most about life, character, and survival. This Friday, at my Leaders Connect Breakfast, four people will tell their stories about their struggle with cancer. …
You Can Lead From Wherever You Are We are often limited in our thinking to imagine that a leader has to be the person at the top. Jordan Poole, a Michigan Wolverine true freshman from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the NCAA basketball semi-final game on Saturday night, gave us a great example of how leadership can come from anyone, at anytime. With his team down by seven points at half-time, Poole stood up in the locker room to give an impassioned …
What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say Almost all of us encounter situations where we don’t know the right thing to say. Unfortunately, one of the most common and difficult of the situations is when we have to talk to somebody who has been diagnosed with cancer. Whether it be a family member, friend, coworker, or ourselves, when we are told someone we know has cancer we often do not know what to say. On April 13, …
Coach’s Clipboard To be fulfilled take good care of yourself…and others How many times have you heard people say it: If you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything. It may be a cliché, but it’s true. In my new book, The Journal for Book Self Aware, I ask people to reflect everyday on something they did for themselves and also something they did for others. Reminding yourself to do daily self care and an act of kindness …