by Kendra Kinnison | Sep 5, 2011 | Faith, Leadership
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to...
by Kendra Kinnison | Aug 22, 2011 | Entrepreneurship, Faith, Peak Performance
Somewhere along the way, our culture has created a myth that we can achieve success if we’ll just “work a little harder.” Here’s a newsflash: that doesn’t work. I’m guessing you already knew that. You know that the twelfth hour at...
by Kendra Kinnison | Aug 11, 2011 | Entrepreneurship, Peak Performance, Writing
Think labs are only for doctors and scientists? Think again. When friends say they haven’t heard from me for a while, I can say I’m “in the lab” and they always know what I mean. The Laboratory is my custom-created training environment –...
by Kendra Kinnison | Jul 27, 2011 | Entrepreneurship, Fitness, Leadership
Daily. There’s something about that word. It’s powerful, intimidating almost. Yet it’s comfortable too, stable. Somehow, I find myself both embracing it and rejecting it. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing...
by Kendra Kinnison | Jul 5, 2011 | Entrepreneurship, Fitness, Leadership
If I just had that car . . . that pair of jeans . . . that computer, I’d be __________. I bet we’ve all gone a few miles on that road. How’s that working out? Yeah, not so well for me either. And yet, it’s still so tempting. A month ago, I got...
by Kendra Kinnison | Jun 15, 2011 | Entrepreneurship, Faith, Leadership
I’ve noticed an interesting trend. Around the anniversary of each decade, my life seems to take a major turn. At 11, my mom became sick, and our world flipped upside down. At 21, I was recently divorced and launched my first business. Just before my 30th...
by Kendra Kinnison | Jun 2, 2011 | Writing
I’m a minimalist, at least that’s the best word I can think of to describe it – an odd combination of compulsive organization and extreme selectiveness. Aside from people, nearly everything that’s important to me fits in my backpack. When we...
by Kendra Kinnison | Jun 1, 2011 | Leadership, Writing
Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. The force of character is cumulative. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance Ultimately, success and leadership is not dependent on ideas, tasks,...
by Kendra Kinnison | May 31, 2011 | Writing
We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Fear. It’s the ultimate four-letter word. But if we’d only 15 minutes left on this earth, all would...
by Kendra Kinnison | May 29, 2011 | Leadership, Writing
Next in line to board our American Eagle flight at Gate 4 at Jackson-Evers International Airport this morning, a boisterous gentleman cut in front of my daughter and I. He dropped his bags and fumbled for his ticket, leaving us waiting directly in front of two TSA...
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