Are you coachable? Are you coachable with the most important people in your life? I prefer picking up the phone when I am in my best energy zone. I want to give the people in my life the best I can offer. Last week I called Edan, our son, as I walked into the house from six hours on the road. I was tired and...
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Yes, I know. The Dalai Lama follows 34,439 other people on Twitter or he did the last time I checked. I doubt the Dalai Lama really follows so many tweets. I think he would have to sacrifice his meditation time and other commitments. Still, it occurred to me that something important is going on here. What is the Twitter phenomenon? Is it the ultimate form...
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We are excited to now offer you a series of teleconferences with Aviv that are designed especially to help you polish and excel your Personal Mastery. The 2009 series – Keys To Personal Mastery will focus on “How to grow and succeed in tough environments”. In this teleconference series Aviv will share powerful keys with you that helped top performers reach even greater heights. Each...
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Nothing your body tells you is inherently wrong or bad. It is merely a sign or a signal of needing attention. Your body is a progress and development laboratory. It is a complex intelligence system, a laboratory that generates signs, alerts, and signals of awareness. It intelligently responds to your environment. You are your own forensic system. Pain, weakness and fatigue are like indicator lights...
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Here are the steps of the innovation process at Google as distilled from this conversation of Marissa Mayer, V.P. of Search Product and User Experience with Charlie Rose. Innovation steps: Step One: Idea Step Two: Prototype Step Three: Build a team Step Four: Productize Step Five: Iterate Other key aspects of Google’s leadership: 1. Broad mission 2. Hiring great people: Smart x get things done...
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This is a comment I posted on Deepak Chopra’s reply to a question about how to recreate a new belief about struggle. Transform struggle into endeavor. The narrative of endeavor is different from the struggle story. Struggle means moving away from absence. Endeavor means moving towards the realization of presence. True joy is the fulfillment of a need. Peace can be found in the endeavor...
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Discover a five-step practice used by the best solution generators in The KEY: The Solutions Gym – Your NOOOA Practice. Help the people around you become world-class problem solvers. You will be creating a network of confident can-do solution generators who will bring energy, opportunities and inspiration back to you. © Aviv Shahar
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What is the DNA of entrepreneurial success? Here are the five points, the DNA of entrepreneurial success I distilled from Reid Hoffman of Linkedin.com in a conversation with Charlie Rose. 1. Work on a great idea 2. Develop effective execution 3. Commit to change the world 4. Exercise intelligent risk taking 5. Manage your network
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You make choices all the time. This winter my experience has been very different from previous winters. Why? Because of choices we made. For the last two months we have been working out of Southern Florida. Woodinville, our home near Seattle experienced six unusual waves of snow fall and colder days than normal. Not much of a global warming there. But we were down here...
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