Three Questions That Determine the Success of Your Pitch (And That Your Boss May Not Realize They Are Asking Themselves)
Quite frankly, ideas are a dime a dozen, even good ideas. It’s in the EXECUTION that most ideas succeed or fail. And odds are that…
Time is the Precious Coin of Your Life
We all have the same 24/7; it is what we do with them that differ. Organization: Plan your days, think through your week, know your month,…
Wounds into Wisdom
We do not so much learn from experience as we learn from evaluated experience i.e. experience that we have reflected upon, analyzed, drawn out all…
Bitter or Better? Which Do You Chose?
Life happens. Good things, bad things. Sometimes we are dealt a good hand, sometimes a bad hand. Most everyone reading this blog has won what…
Riding the J-Curve of Accountability
Change is often more valued in the abstract than in reality; as the saying goes “Change is good, you go first.” Change, even in the…
An Often-Neglected Duty Leaders Owe Others
When a leader dodges the tough conversations, when they lack the courage to hold people accountable or the internal fortitude and strength of will to…
A Vital Key to Success That You’ve Been Taught Not To Do
From birth most of us have been taught to avoid confrontation, whether to be nice or to be liked or get along or just to…
The Hardest Thing to Do
As a leader, as a coach, one of the hardest things to do is let people fail. It is so easy to reach out and…
Identity as Destiny
Who are you? How do you define yourself? What do you think you are capable of? What can you do, what do you think you…
Acing the Second Score
Your “First Score” is what happened the first time; the “Second Score” is how you handle it, how you respond when your First Score is…
FIVE FEARS AND HOW THEY SILENCE
We often fail to have the difficult conversations we need to have, leaving unspoken important truths. Why? – Fear of Confrontation/Conflict: From the playground onward, we…
Even Great Quotes Sometimes Need Asterisks
Opening Quotes: “I can make a decision with 30% of the information; anything more than 80% is too much.” – Colin Powell, former secretary of…
Difficult Conversations Don’t Have to Be So Difficult
Ah, difficult conversations. Those conversations we want to avoid, be it our neighbors’ noisy parties or the Team Members who seem to have lost their…
An Invincible Summer
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus, 1913-1960 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, @…
Good Judgment
Good judgment is the ability to combine knowledge and wisdom to make good decisions. Good judgment requires that we accumulate enough knowledge before making decisions,…
Pick A Mountain
Humans need purpose, meaning, direction for their life, some challenge to overcome, some mountain to climb. Such is the simple secret of happiness. In many…
Five Steps to Your Best Self
You have GREATNESS within you, waiting for you to fully activate it. You want more, know you are capable of more, interested in being better, growing, learning,…
Claiming Your Golden Shadow
In Jungian psychology, the “shadow” refers to an unconscious aspect of the personality, everything of which a person is not fully conscious i.e. the shadow…
The Many Possible Riches of a Poor Memory
The first thing to understand is that far from being a video recorder and a computer data bank, our observations tend to be highly subjective;…
Get Everything You Can… Out of All You’ve Got Now
Too often we focus on our lacks, our weaknesses, on barriers in our way. Doing so flirts with creating a victim identity. If your goal…
Don’t Push: It Rarely Lasts
I was on Community Walks the other day with a Senior Team Member when we observed some glaring oversights. Committed and ever responsive, they vowed…
Are you a Pleaser or a Leader?
Pleasing people is NOT the same as leading people. We all want to be liked, we all want affirmation. Effective leaders need to be able…
What is YOUR EMOTIONAL WAKE?
One of the adages of NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming) is that “you cannot not communicate”. In other words, we are all constantly “on stage”. Like it or…
CTS AND THE CYCLE OF INQUIRY
“There is very little difference between people but that little difference makes a big difference.” – W. Clement Stone One little difference that makes a big…
Success = Intense Desire + Intelligent Action
“Goal achievement is more about depth and strength and power of one’s desire than aught else. Laser intensity and long hours combined with openness to…
How to Raise your Happiness Set Point
1. Journal: Awareness is the first step to creating any change. To grow in self-awareness, begin to journal about the “moments of your day”. Write…