by DarEll Hoskisson | May 21, 2015 | DarEll S. Hoskisson: Self-Improvement
Success snowballs. When we do well, good feelings and confidence carryover influencing our attitude, choices and success in other areas. Similarly, negative contagions like fear, worry, and defeat lead to over thinking, recycling problems or mistakes, and finally...
by DarEll Hoskisson | May 14, 2015 | DarEll S. Hoskisson: Self-Improvement
I’m an anxious, active, and driven person. I care about getting things done, and I care about people. I like to do everything well. This caring about everything necessitated an enormous juggling act. As a mother, suddenly if I was busy, over focused on anything,...
by DarEll Hoskisson | May 7, 2015 | DarEll S. Hoskisson: Self-Improvement
I like to see results. I rate accomplishment on getting a result I can see. But that desire to see my impact has led me falsely, time and again, to underestimate myself. This can be incredibly, and unnecessarily discouraging. I regularly feel like quitting. My...
by DarEll Hoskisson | Apr 30, 2015 | DarEll S. Hoskisson: Self-Improvement
What is your greatest fear? My brother, who was nervous and engaged to be married, asked me for advice. I thought about it and the best I could offer was, “When in doubt, don’t freak out.” It is amazingly normal for horrific things to happen in the course of a...
by DarEll Hoskisson | Apr 23, 2015 | DarEll S. Hoskisson: Self-Improvement
Have you ever not seen the trees for the forest? If you are a big picture or visual thinker, you may know exactly what I’m talking about. We can see the whole easily, but the parts, well—-not so much. This gift, or curse, is often associated with right brain...
by DarEll Hoskisson | Apr 16, 2015 | DarEll S. Hoskisson: Self-Improvement
Accept the Unacceptable? Why should I? As a young college student, I wrote a poem about who I hoped to be. One of the lines read, “self-less and satisfied. Always learning.” It was a tall order and now I look back at that beautiful ideal and see so many challenges...
