“Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.” Great words from Tom Landry. In reality leadership is one of the most important aspects of being a military member of any kind. We think that because we are Chiefs or higher we have accomplished the pinnacle of individual accomplishment. I choose to take a different outlook, I believe that true leadership is taking what the military gives you and making better people out of them. Resulting…
Happiness, the feeling of satisfaction, pleasure, joy, commitment and delight is much more meaningful than its literal meanings. If someone says he is happy it means he is satisfied with the present situation around him. He is experiencing life the way he wants. Your relationships are going well, your boss is satisfied with your work and you are in good health. This is temporary happiness since it is dependent on certain conditions, being the way, one wants them to be. If your partner is angry…
Happiness is the feeling of contentment and pleasure in one's heart or mind. Happiness can also be defined as enjoying your life and things around you, and never wanting those feelings to change (Schoch 451). Studies show that about fortyone percent of people in the United States consider themselves happy and content all of the time. Does that make the other fiftynine percent unhappy, pessimistic grouches, not necessarily. Many people can have thoughts and feelings of anger and sadness…
Leadership has concerned an amount of people on deducting its theories. It is the ability that people, only a few, have to motivate and inspire them to achieve goals in life and find a purpose to go on, flee and face their problems. Leaders have their own ways of thinking and dealing with the group they work with. The basic theories that are common used by them to lead people are the Great Man, the Trait, the Behavioral, the Participative, the Situational, the Contingency, the Transactional and…
Human beings are often associated with having the feeling of pride in every action they do. It does not matter if the actions are good or morally wrong, the sensation of pride is still burning in every human’s soul. Pride, according to www.oxforddictionaries.com is a feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements, the achievements of one’s close associates, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired. In a more specific context, pride can be translated…
My roots of optimism stem from my mental voice and the events I went through that aided me in the journey of finding myself. Optimism is a belief that is quite difficult to find inside you, I had lost myself in no hopes of being found, but with my positive attitude, I had found happiness again. Most may think optimism is simple, but for me, it took some time to find this faith in myself. A few months back I had lost all hope in the world, I was going through heartbreak and had to deal with…
In the view of Zohar and Marshall (2000), spiritual intelligence can be utilized effectively to manage and answer problems of meaning and value, and this intelligence is essential for survival and for undertaking actions in a broader, richer, and meaningful context. Also, spiritual intelligence is helpful in living a more meaningful and profound life. Moreover, spiritual intelligence is valuable in coping with struggles of good and evil and problems of life and death which are the deepest…
something. And your mindset is the deciding factor in whether or not you'll actually achieve the success that you're looking for. You can have a negative or a positive mindset. People who have negative attitudes usually see the reasons why something can't be achieved and these people are self-limiting when it comes to success. But people with positive mindsets see the problems in a task and look for ways to adapt around or through the problem to come up with a solution that works. Mindset…
After completing the leadership self-assessment and bar graph I identified the dominant leadership behaviors included providing direction, leading courageously, championing change, coaching and developing people and acting with integrity. The least used leadership behaviors included fostering teamwork and motivating others. The first leadership behavior I’m going to review is to provide direction. In order to provide direction to team members the leader must understand the mission and goals of…
Life is About More than Being Happy What makes people happy? How do people make themselves and others happy? Will money and success make people happy? For ages, society has assumed that the answer to living a successful life is to be happy. However, happiness is not all that a person needs to live a fulfilled life. For every person the answer to this question of “happiness” is defined differently. Emily Smith argues that people require more than just happiness to feel important in society.…