The Vision Board

My Final 52 for Fifty Two post (2024): For all of 2024 I shared stories and lessons both professional and personal here on LinkedIn.  To...

If there is ONE thing in 2025 that I hope you do, it’s living this lesson out every day. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ “Today, I’m helping my friend” It’s a...

"Leadership is having the privilege to be present during the messiest times of peoples' lives" Leadership is a privilege not a right. ...

Did playing a sport in college actually prepare me for the professional business world? I get asked this quite often from college...

Recently, I had to take a trip to the Emergency Room! 🚑  My wife drove me there, with me on my hands and knees riding on the floor of...

The word Leader has some fascinating origins. One is from a Germanic word, Laidijan, which means “to cause one to go.” In essence, a...

Take yourself seriously. Take life lightly. I heard this the other day and it was a heck of a reminder! For me, it means to take what I...

"Neal, you are the only one that can advocate for yourself." I remember being early in my career when I heard this advice from my good...

To be a great leader, it takes more than skills, experience, intelligence, charisma, or strong business acumen.  All of those are...

Every Tuesday at about 9PM I roll my garbage bin out to the end of the driveway to be picked up Wednesday morning. And every single week...

How well do you welcome people? Think about your own experiences: How were you welcomed on your first day at a new job? How does your...

There are so many obstacles in life. Obstacles are opportunities. But it takes a certain kind of mindset and mentality to realize that...

So one of my wife’s pet peeves and things that really grinds her gears is when people leave their shopping carts throughout the parking...

Have you ever had a leader, boss, manager, coach, or someone in your life that you would run through a wall for? The first time I ever...

Leaders are too afraid of failure. Businesses are too afraid of failure.  Young professionals, especially students, are too afraid of...

This past Thursday has been 10 years since my wife and I bought our first house - the same one we have lived in since. Ten years ago I...

🔥🔥🔥 My Hot Take 🔥🔥🔥  I absolutely DISLIKE the phrase "Culture starts at the top." I am a firm believer that culture does not have...

I have never told this to anyone publicly. I don’t even think anyone in my family beyond my wife even know.  In early January of 2020, I...

People get so upset over even the slightest of inconvenience. Story time! ⬇  Yesterday, I was at the gas station filling up my pickup...

A top self-therapy for me is driving, listening to music on maximum, and singing every single word at the top of my lungs! ***This is a...