What is resilience and who needs it anyway? Resilience refers to how well you can deal with and bounce back from the difficulties of life. It can mean the difference between handling pressure and losing your cool. Resilient people tend to maintain a more positive outlook and cope with stress more effectively.

Sometimes I wonder if I just got lucky. Maybe for this trip God chose to bless me with a joyful and grateful heart. I have wondered if it’s just that the challenges in my life are less than the joys, or just easier than other peoples challenges, maybe, or maybe not.

You were born with gifts, creative talents and natural genius. There is something special and unique to you alone that you need to share with the world. Your natural genius, or real-life super power, is hardwired within you. You can do this thing(s) in a way that no one else can. When you tap into your super power, you begin to step into your greatness.  When expressing your gifts and serving others, you will experience a joy and richness not found in everyday life.

The best managers and leaders have a fundamentally different understanding of workplace, company, and team dynamics. In my 25 plus years in business and over 12 years as an executive and leadership coach I have worked with hundreds of Business owners, leaders and managers.  I learned that the “best of the best” tend to share the following eight core beliefs.

Communication is every leader and organization’s greatest ally or unacknowledged burden. One of the biggest challenges for people when in conflict with others is dealing with the emotional content and each other’s feelings and differences. Because this is difficult for most people at given times, the most common way to deal with it is to avoid or dismiss how you or others are feeling. This is the biggest cause of broken communication, repeating issues and lack of resolution to persistent work relationship issues.

As a heart centered servant leader your focus is to be a positive, inspiring leader to others. A good leader does not judge or assume, instead they seek clarity and understanding, asking the right questions instead rushing to judgment, assumptions or assigning blame.

What if loneliness was simply a feeling of impatience, telepathically sent to you by friends you have yet to meet, experiences life was calling you towards, urging you to go out more, do more, and get involved, so that life’s serendipitous moments could bring you together? Would you still feel alone?

One of the more important and challenging teachings of the Toltec Path for me was learning to let go of myself importance. Once I saw how this self concept blocked my joy and peace in the moment it became easier for me to start to let go of my pettiness and need to take everything that happened so personally.

Our relationships make up the most important experiences of our lives. Our entire reality is created from, and based upon, our relationship with ourselves and the people around us. This may sound obvious; yet few people stop and take a deeper look at this most powerful and fascinating entity termed ‘relationship’.

Fear is the mechanism used by the ego to keep us tied to our thoughts and beliefs. It results in our ego state of consciousness. Fear is the glue the ego uses to bind us to itself, and fear is what needs to be overcome to be free of ego-identification. Fortunately, it isn’t as difficult as it sounds. After all, fear is just another idea, and like all ideas, fear is only as real and holds as much power as we give it.