The Growth Hub

Ideas, tools, support and inspiration to realize your goals, purpose and potential, No Matter What

“I Don’t Know” Isn’t a Problem, If…

“I don’t know” will default into retreating or relying on outdated strategies and approaches. Instead, anchoring on self-awareness provides a stable foundation for growth amid uncertainty. With a clear sense of who you are, who your team is, and what your organization really stands for, future unknowns are less daunting and become opportunities for proactive exploration instead of passive resignation. 

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Why We Need Trust in an AI World Where Seeing isn’t Always Believing

Trust is eroding as AI generated content can easily deceive us. But we cannot abandon trust altogether as it will only produce fear, anxiety and blanket suspicion disconnecting us further from our team, community and those around us. Instead, our challenge is to thoughtfully choose where to place our trust.

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The Exact Formula I Use to Turn Hard Things into Growth

Stepping outside our comfort zones is often celebrated as the key to growth, but simply facing challenges doesn't guarantee transformation. Real growth demands intentionality—it requires a deliberate approach to how we engage with and learn from our experiences.

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Stop Chasing Success and Start Finding Meaning

Embracing spiritual health isn't just an added benefit—it's the transformative key that unlocks profound personal growth and propels organizations forward; by grounding ourselves and our teams in a deeper sense of purpose and meaning, we ignite resilience, innovation, and productivity that simply can't be achieved through physical, emotional or mental efforts alone.

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Why You Need to Change, First…

 To shift our results and the world around us – whether it's people, environments, or organizations—we must first transform ourselves. By shifting our mindset, emotions, and perspectives, we unlock the ability to create a ripple effect of broader impact. Personal growth is the foundation of broader change. When we can shift ourselves, we have access to shifting everything around us. 

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Limiting Beliefs & Culture, Growth & Courage Sterling Hawkins Limiting Beliefs & Culture, Growth & Courage Sterling Hawkins

Why you Need to Break Something Before you Build

If we’re not actively breaking limiting beliefs – we’re stuck with them. Taking on seemingly impossible challenges together builds stronger bonds and unlocks the hidden potential in all of us. The process reveals how we can show up for ourselves, show up for others and ultimately overcome whatever hurdles life presents even in the face of challenges and adversity.

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29029: How “Impossible” Challenges Reveal Unseen Strengths

If we’re not actively breaking limiting beliefs – we’re stuck with them. Taking on seemingly impossible challenges together builds stronger bonds and unlocks the hidden potential in all of us. The process reveals how we can show up for ourselves, show up for others and ultimately overcome whatever hurdles life presents even in the face of challenges and adversity.

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Uncertainty & Trust, Fear & Leadership Sterling Hawkins Uncertainty & Trust, Fear & Leadership Sterling Hawkins

How Trust Transforms Discomfort into Growth

The more we can trust, the more we can grow. There’s a positive correlation between the amount of trust we have and the weight of discomfort we can handle and grow from. Trust is essential to overcoming the uncomfortable and uncertain because it provides the internal foundation needed to step forward. When you’ve cultivated trust, you believe in your capacity to navigate and endure any difficult situation ahead.

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People before Progress

There is no achievement in isolation. Nobody does it alone. If you want to perpetuate progress, create sustainable achievement — you need to sustain a collective. You don’t only need goals. Or willpower. You need this rich tapestry of people in all aspects of life. That’s what propels you forward — that’s what creates achievement.

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Why Holding on Holds you Back

The more attached we are to an outcome, the less likely we are to realize it. Attachment to results leaves us fighting current circumstances instead of working with them. When we let go and trust– trust our preparation, our practice, our process – it frees us to be present and function most effectively with the tools we already have.

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The way out is through. And the way through is trust.

Growth is not just a function of better strategy, more grit, and harder work. It’s a function of the real work: the uncomfortable work to let go of what we already know and trust that there’s something greater on the other side. A cultivated belief that we can depart from the status quo – about ourselves, our teams, our companies – and realize our potential beyond it.

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