by Dr. Jeff Van Meter | Mar 12, 2021 | General, Human Leader, Leadership
On Sunday, I opened my weather app to see the forecast for the upcoming week hoping against hope that warmer weather was coming to Chicago. All my neighbors have seen their snow melt away revealing the ground underneath, yet my back yard is still snow covered. Two...
by Dr. Jeff Van Meter | Mar 5, 2021 | General, Human Leader, Leadership
Perhaps you’ve heard of The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman. The first edition was published in 1992 with a revised edition in 2015. Chapman listed five categories of “love languages” that he found in his counseling practice as ways people give...
by Dr. Jeff Van Meter | Feb 19, 2021 | Core Values, General, Human Leader
Last week I shared the true story of a man who died bitter and alone, and no one cried. There was another man whose story I’ll tell today. The two men were friends. For many years they lived in the same town, they attended the same church, they raised their...
by Dr. Jeff Van Meter | Jan 26, 2021 | Human Leader, Leadership
In the previous post, I mentioned re-connecting with a high school friend who was now a successful international conductor. It prompted some of you to reach out to a long lost friend and when you told me, that really made my day. We are communal creatures and even the...
by Dr. Jeff Van Meter | Apr 10, 2018 | Human Leader, Leadership
I was feeling a little alliterative as I wrote my subject line this morning. Ok. It wasn’t this morning anymore it was a week ago. Which actually illustrates what I am about to talk about… You know if you read just about any book, article, post, meme, or...
by Dr. Jeff Van Meter | Jan 31, 2018 | Human Leader, Leadership
Hey all! FYI, this is a longer post and no tl;dr. I’ve been thinking about the phrase ‘Trust Your Gut” lately. You’ve heard “trust your gut,” or that “your first response is usually correct,” and there are many many times when that is true. Trusting...
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