Accelus Insights:
The Leadership Narrative

As mentioned previously, we recently completed some renovations to our home.  In the course of undertaking something such as this, you must clear out the space where the work is to be done in order to make room for the improvements. For us, this meant cleaning out the entire kitchen...

An actionable idea on deleting a toleration may be choosing to do nothing about it.  Does that surprise you?  Just because we are putting up with something does not mean that we have to take action.  Awareness and acknowledgement of the toleration may be all that is needed for its...

So how many tolerations did you end up with on your list?  5, 10, 50, 100 or more? When I first began the work of identifying my tolerations, the list was short…only 4.  I wasn’t used to looking for tolerations and I had a difficult time seeing them.  I lacked...

A more elegant word for the focus of last week’s newsletter, What Are You Putting Up With? is “tolerations”. A toleration is a condition that is allowed to exist even though it drains our energy. Think about the things that you put up with:  a wardrobe that doesn’t fit or...

Last week’s newsletter addressed the face of change and how the pace of it can be much more gradual than reality TV portrays. The same applies to our realization that something in our lives needs to change. At times, it is a “slap in the face”; a wake-up call that...

After peering in our mirror and realizing we are the agent for change in our life, what does change look like? We are all familiar with the face of dramatic change. It peers at us every night from our flat screen TV’s. Hmmm…isn’t it interesting how televisions are becoming more like...