Tag: Motivation

• Your Fooling Yourself!

  Do we deceive ourselves into thinking that we ARE what we are NOT?   The mind has a way of legitimizing and reinforcing our behavior. We think that our motivations are pure. We are acting in a righteous way.  For others.  Not ourselves.  We are selfless.  But is this really true? We also have a…

  Joe Passkiewicz

  August 7, 2017

  Focus, Strategy, Vision

  actions, behavior, Belief, caring, fooling ourself, giving, husband, lying, Motivation, narrative, Pride, reward, self image, truth, Wife

• Talker or Doer?

  Are you a silver-tongued leader? I’ve met a bunch of people in leadership through the years.  Some were gifted motivators.  They knew how to communicate a goal and guide to the finish.  They had the ability to paint the picture.  A great gift to be able to help folks see the finish line.  Yet sometimes…

  Joe Passkiewicz

  February 1, 2017

  Attitude, Relationships, Strategy

  Blogging, Dad, Design, Disrespectful, Divorce, doer, leaders, Leadership development, Learning, messed up, Motivation, picture, talkers

• Make Them Great!

  I was having dinner with a site supervisor a while back and he shared his frustration with motivating one of his team members on site. He was convinced that this person was just lazy and could not visualize what was needed on the construction site. He voiced his frustration with this persons inability to think…

  Joe Passkiewicz

  March 17, 2016

  Change, Excellence, Initiative, Uncategorized

  frustration, mentoring, Motivation, supervision

• The White Knight

  “The opposite of pride is not humility as being humble often contains a measure of pride. The opposite of pride is actually gratitude”!   Mary New Mary shared this to a group of friends recently.  I think there is a lot of truth in this statement.  We often think being humble or meek is admirable, yet…

  Joe Passkiewicz

  December 31, 2012

  Attitude, Belief, Excellence

  Blogging, Christ, God, humility, leadership, leadingbyserving, Motivation, Pride, religion