Are you focused on high return activities?
Are you focused on high return activities? In the past few days I’ve witnessed a failure to act on that old adage: Everything that demands your attention doesn’t deserve your attention. When I say “witness”, I’ve observed this with clients, friends, and—yes, myself. Why is it so easy to spend an hour creating the “perfect” electronic business […]
Continued...I love this question: What’s the golden nugget?
What’s the golden nugget? I love this question because it can be applied anywhere, anytime. I dare you to find a situation or struggle, a success or setback where asking this question won’t produce a gem. Lesson learned I define a golden nugget as the most important lesson, but everyone has their own definition. I’ve […]
Continued...Have you had a teaching moment today?
I was having lunch with a friend the other day and the subject of LeBron James came up. My friend was appalled at LeBron’s decision to go to the Miami Heat. During our discussion, he said he used the primetime event as a teaching moment about selfishness with his young son. I love the idea of extracting […]
Continued...It’s time reduce, reuse and recycle how you think
Reduce, reuse, recycle. We’ve all heard that expression, right? The context is typically about thrift, being green, and simplifying. I came across that phrase in my reading the other day and saw it in a new light. The phrase can be applied to our thoughts just as easily as our physical possessions or consumption. Let’s see how this […]
Continued...What unfinished business is nagging at the back of your mind?
The year is more than half over. 144 days left. What’s your biggest piece of unfinished business? Is it finally getting started on that novel you said you would write this year? Is it training to run a 5K before the year end? Forgiving someone? Getting healthier? Making a career change or changing jobs? Reducing your […]
Continued...Sometimes you need not to think
Sometimes you need not to think. Did you read that right? Yes. Every possible angle It’s striking how often we fall prey to overthinking. To overanalyzing. To looking at a situation from every possible angle and still not making a decision. Sometimes all that thinking leads somewhere. Other times it’s just delaying the inevitable—the need […]
Continued...It really does matter what we call things
It matters what we call things. The definitions we use. The labels we attach. The meaning we bestow. How we frame something. It matters. Shaping your reality While I appreciate the whimsy of the license plate, it points to a slippery slope about how we shape our reality with limiting beliefs. For instance, if you consistently tell […]
Continued...Do you have a Big Goal?
I am privileged to work with clients who have amazing, inspiring Big Goals. Starting new businesses, writing books, getting fit and healthy, changing careers, paying off significant credit card debt, taking their businesses to a new level—just to name a few Big Goals. “Make no small plans; they have no magic to stir men’s souls.” […]
Continued...I don’t want to be driven anymore
I didn’t realize in early May I was taking a sabbatical. I thought I was just feeling a bit less motivated. Finding it more difficult to focus. Noticing my productivity was falling off. It was a curious turn of events because I’ve always been such a taskmaster with myself—driven, pushing through, doing, doing, doing. But […]
Continued...Are you suffering from Back Burner Syndrome?
Are there things you want to do that keep getting put on the back burner because it’s not the right time. Perhaps you want to go back to school, be more active in your community, learn a language, change careers, write a book, take a trip, run a 10K—or any number of things you want for […]
Continued...I’ve never noticed spring as much as this year
I’ve never noticed Spring as much as this year. Or at least I haven’t noticed it this much in a decade. Want to know why? Because I had my nose to a (largely self-imposed) grindstone and was working all the time. And when I wasn’t working, I was too bleary-eyed from overwork to notice much […]
Continued...Do you need a little “trouble” stirred up?
I’m known among those who know me best for stirring up trouble, pushing and prodding, and calling a spade a spade. Perhaps those don’t sound like desirable traits, but they’re actually the exact reasons people love me. And the very reasons I’m a catalyst for change in the lives of others. How do I stir […]
Continued...It’s time to stop deflecting compliments
My clients have exciting things going on in their lives. Starting new businesses, making much-desired career changes, writing books, planning extended trips abroad, getting their finances in order, letting go of the past and creating authentic new chapters. Altogether exciting stuff! But even with amazing progress toward these goals, there’s this persistent habit of disqualifying […]
Continued...Sometimes it’s not the grand gesture
The UPS guy delivered a package to me yesterday. He rang the doorbell, but I was on a call and only got to the door as he was driving away. I found not only my package on the doorstep, but also the two empty recycling bins that had been out at the curb that morning […]
Continued...Do you find yourself saying “I’m just not creative”?
I cringed when I viewed this brilliant video by Youngme Moon, which is an irreverent, but spot-on anti-creativity checklist. I encourage you to take a look and see if you’re guilty of any of the sad, but hilarious traits and mindsets Professor Moon describes. Anti-creativity checklist: 14 things to remember to do Pigeonhole yourself My personal favorite […]
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