The Smart Thinking Podcast

Listen as we discuss a process to help you frame the challenges you may be facing. Is the work ahead of you this week -- high life mission and high motivation towards the opportunity? If yes - -awesome - -if no -- listen as we explore how to take on that challenge. 

This conversation will change the direction of your day. It'll impact how you think. It will prove that you can charge through anything!
Sometimes there is just a weird way that worlds collide. I met Marcus Allen at a conference in Florida and he is a genuine buffalo leader - -take a listen and learn a lot of new ways to frame leadership and life. 
Describe how you can advocate for the underdog.
List ways in which our influence shapes those around us.
Describe your blessings.

This is a must listen to help you reignite your love of leading and serving! Amber Harper and I had a ton of fun discussing how to create the conditions to have a Burned In v. Burned Out Mindset!
 
Amber: https://www.burnedinteacher.com/
 

How often do you look backwards on your calendar? Not enough. Take a listen to this great refection and process to help you help all you serve and yourself.
List the teams, classes, groups that you could support with the think back process.
Describe your moments over the course of the last year.
List the hurdles you faced and how you overcame them.

How do we increase our value and feel appreciated? Take a listen as we discuss ways to demonstrate appreciation and be more impactful. Stop waiting to be appreciated and start appreciating your world.
List people in your life that would benefit from appreciative strategies
Describe how you can appreciate in value-- by appreciating others.
List which of the 16 appreciation tactics you’ll apply.
 

Listen as we discuss how to increase your ability to be your authentic self. This episode offers a tool to increase your ability to avoid working in frustration and support others to do be the best version of themselves - -authentically buffalo! 
List the groups/teams/classes that would benefit from the Authentic Buffalo process.
Describe the benefits of advocating for yourself.
List others that would benefit from the opportunity to engage in the Authentic Buffalo process.

We need to seize the opportunities that present themselves when we fail. We need to grow from failure, celebrate failure and support those as they move forward and onward! 
Describe how you currently treat failure in your world
List ways you can change your behavior to ensure risk
Describe ways you can celebrate failure
 

How do we confront the negativity around us? We change our behaviors and we actually do it - -we take it on! Take a listen to the five step process to help others get over their addiction to negativity. 
Change your behaviors
Stop accepting negativity
Call it out
Choose positivity
Reinforce positivity & be an elevator!

The road to empathy is paved with reflective questions! Questions we need to ask ourselves and then those we are serving. Take a listen to this process which will allow you to grow for others -- especially at this time of the year. 
List those that would benefit from your empathy.
Describe how you can apply this process for others.
List a behavior you need to change in order to become more empathetic.

How can we reduce anxiety, build trust and increase our own leadership and the leadership of others? By telling stories!
List the best storyteller in your life and reflect on what makes them so good.
Describe a strategy you can employee to grow connectedness through stories
List how you can support others sharing their stories