Embrace Your Opportunities Everything we face in life can be considered an opportunity or a challenge, depending on how we approach it and and what we do with it. It can be very easy to shrink from something the stretches us, or something that challenges us in ways...
We know where we will be if we stop learning new things, challenging our assumptions, or expanding our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Right, when we stop learning, we stop growing. Instead of new opportunities, we will just turn in on...
Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and it is an opportunity to both celebrate his life and memory, while also consider what meaning this has for me and my life today. King was a civil rights activist and leader, and I think it is valuable to reflect on how this...
We had a really interesting discussion yesterday on the article How the world’s most successful founders approach failure and my take-away message is simple, yet somewhat profound:Blaming is the Opposite of Learning from ExperienceWhen we fail at something, whether it...
Article Discussion Starters for “How the World’s Most Successful Founders Approach Failure” Here are some discussion questions to help us frame today’s article discussion on “How the world’s most successful founders approach failure”...
Jeffrey M. Keefer, Ph.D., is an educational consultant, institutional researcher and accreditation officer in higher education, professor of research methodology, nonprofit capacity building and strategic planning consultant, talent development coach, spiritual life advisor (chaplain) at New York University, spiritual director, and Wikipedian.
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