Here are some of the reasons why 83% of all New Year’s resolutions fail: Habits are stronger than intentions. The resolution was not made with a truly committed action plan. You did not develop a support system to help carry on the resolution through the ebbs and flows of life. The resolution was a reaction to something outside yourself and was not based in new...
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Mentoring and coaching are two adjacent strategies to develop your capabilities and talents. They each bring a different emphasis and approach but the driving outcome is similar: to improve your ability to succeed in what you hope to accomplish. 1. A mentor is someone who has specific experience in the role or field of knowledge sought after. Mentoring is based on the mentor’s experience and...
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This Key explores three vital skills you did not learn in school and had to discover for yourself. Failing to master these skills brings more strife and pain than anything else. Proficiency in these three skills opens the door to tremendous well being and to actualizing your goals and realizing your hopes. As a parent, know that your children will need to discover these three...
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Great negotiators, sales people, coaches, consultants and entrepreneurs understand that the word ‘no’ is not the opposite of the word ‘yes’. People say ‘no’ for multiple reasons and they mean a variety of things depending on the situational context. When you get a ’no’, or when you do not get a ’yes’ it may mean any of the options listed below. In parentheses are suggestions...
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“Knights of the South Bronx” is a transformational story. In every transformational journey there is this first step when someone makes a move. It’s the moment of stepping into the unknown to accept guidance. In the movie Knights of the South Bronx this moment takes place in the park when Jimmie, whose young life is on the precipice, steps up to the chess board to...
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This was originally published for my 2004 Thanksgiving Message. Let me share a thanksgiving story with you. Last week I visited the Leadership Class of Woodinville High School. My son Edan participates in the class and his teacher, Mr. Vixie, invited me to conduct a self-leadership workshop with this group of young leaders. Ecology is always important, so I came early to arrange the chairs...
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Jeff Bezos hopes to “outbook the book” with Kindle – Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device. If you are involved in the cutting edge of technology and business you would want to watch Bezos conversation with Charlie Rose (posted here below) for the following four reasons: 1. Bezos’ narrative about where we are in the Internet revolution says we are clearly only in its early days....
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Questions: What do Priests and Firefighters have in common? Answer: They both deal in matters of higher intervention, and they both rush in where angels fear to tread. Priests try to light a fire in the house and firefighters try to put it out. Well, perhaps. The right answer though is that they both made the top of TIME’s list of the happiest people by...
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“Coaching is a collaborative process dedicated to help and inspire an individual or team to achieve a desired result.” Here are some of the benefits of coaching I have experienced and witnessed both in being coached and in coaching executives. The coaching process unfolds through discovery, expanded awareness and insight and leads to designing a strategy of action. It is intuitive, energizing, challenging, sometimes painful...
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This post was triggered after reading the Cool Friend interview with Matthew Kelly on Tom Peters! I found Kelly’s reply to the question of why people stop dreaming incomplete and posted a comment. Upon further reflection I found my own comment also incomplete and added the following: “A person without a dream is like a bird without wings”. “Take a man away from his dreams...
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