Overcoming Fear in Business

As mentioned a few weeks ago, Inspirational Perspective will be introducing new writers to the website. In today’s post, our guest contributor, Pam Redwood, discusses FEAR and how it can hurt entrepreneurs. Whether you’re an entrepreneur or not, Pam’s message is still relevant and poses the following question: Are you and your business in an intimate Read More

Where’s Your Focus?

  Where’s your focus? If you get to the unfiltered answer for this question, it will teach you a lot about yourself. We all choose to focus on different things and it’s what we focus on that predicts what we’ll do, how we’ll do it and ultimately where we’ll go in life. So where’s your Read More

Linal Harris – Check Out My New Professional Speaking Reel

  I had an awesome weekend in San Diego hanging with my little sister, Keila Harris and my good friend of two decades, Michael Allen. I am a blessed man! To top off my phenomenal weekend, I also received a copy of my brand new professional speaker reel! This was a serendipitous arrival because now I get to Read More

Dead Dialogue…

As Americans, the government’s shut down has allowed us to observe the consequence of ineffective communication amongst leaders over the last couple of weeks. Our elected officials have displayed the outcome, when leaders lack the emotional intelligence to compromise and actively listen to one another. Since the beginning of this government shutdown, I’ve overheard comments Read More

Is your life on autopilot?

Ever pull into the parking lot at work and realize that you don’t remember the drive that got you there? You stopped at all the stop-lights, signaled to change lanes, and maybe even parked the car without being fully aware of what you were doing. Basically, you were so deep in thought about that upcoming Read More

Go BIG or go home!

  Last week while driving home from work I pulled up next to another car at a stoplight and noticed that there was a magnetic advertisement on the car door.  I slowly pulled up a bit more to read what was being advertised, but I had a hard time making it out because the sign Read More

Pigeonholed?

All of us know or have known someone within our professional lives that is or has been in a pigeonhole (to be stagnate, with little opportunity or growth in your current career for a long period of time). They’re OKAY…sometimes even great at what they do, but lack the attitude, skill, will and/or emotional intelligence Read More

Influence

My sister Keila, is in New York this week to gain perspective and knowledge from my virtual mentor; Seth Godin, also known as ‘America’s Greatest Marketer’ and author of fourteen books. Seth’s speeches and writings have had a great deal of influence on me over the last few years and this Monday, my little sister will Read More

Upgrade U

What was the last item you had to upgrade? Chances are one of the applications on your smart phone needed upgrading recently or maybe even the phone itself. I can’t speak for you, but whenever I see that there’s an upgrade available for an application on my smart phone or the software on my laptop, I Read More

Show Up!

  Think of where and who you are today…Then count your blessings…Part of the reason you are where you are, is due to how you’ve “shown up”… Right? Another way to say it would be…we all are who we are and where we are based on how we continue to “show up”! This seems to Read More