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Personal Development

Why You can’t always get what you want…

Every year, billions of people decide to start the New Year off in a different way. Maybe they will quit smoking? Perhaps they will choose to ...

Personal Development

Stop Chasing Success: How to BE the Leader Your Business Needs

Almost everyone gets into business to experience success. And to do that, they are thinking of something along the lines of. “If I DO this, I ...

Personal Development

Are You Motivated or Disciplined: Which Will Deliver Results?

I was thinking about this recently and realized there is a distinction between Motivation and Discipline. Merriam Webster defines motivation as the condition of being motivated ...

Personal Development

Stop Wasting Your Time on Skills, Look to Beliefs for Success.

Before you decide that they don’t know what to do, it may be helpful to inquire into what they think they need to be successful. It could be that they are stuck with a new challenge with a customer. Or they are having personal issues that are distracting, or perhaps they have heard rumors about themselves or the company that are distracting them. By taking the time to understand where they are coming from, and then addressing the issue, they may get better results.

Personal Development

When You Operate Outside of Your Comfort Zone the Impostor is There

I recognized the impostor for what it was…an impostor. The real me was stretching beyond my comfort zone. And what a successful client meeting. He moved forward to make the change he wanted and landed a bigger job and more responsibility.

Personal Development

Discover the Simple Path to Faster and More Successful Results

Evaluate your options as they may all look good, (or bad). Based on the information you have the choose a path. As you move forward and learn, evaluate. Then if necessary, recalibrate to bring you closer to your target.

Personal Development

Why Are We So Afraid?!!!

I am fascinated by the effect communications has on our ability to perform and thrive. Then, over the weekend, I had the same insight delivered ...

Personal Development

The JukeBox: or the mental loops we play

I was having a cup of coffee with my good friend Tom LaRotaonda the other day and we were talking about how it happens that people ...

Personal Development

Can Emotion Be Influential?

I was delivering a workshop recently when one of the participants wanted to be heard. He wanted to acknowledge the role that emotion and feelings play ...

Personal Development

So….You want to be empowered?

I often hear individuals speak about how they want to feel empowered or perhaps they want the company or their boss to empower them. What is ...

Personal Development

He Got it…(or did he)?

I had coffee with Bob (not his real name) last week. He and I went to college together and over the last decades he has been ...

Personal Development

Weak Words

The way we communicate with ourselves and others absolutely affects the world we experience. And often our word choices affect our communication. “Do or do not, ...

Personal Development

Meet Your Dragon and Dance Part 2

We spoke last about the lizard brain (I am calling it the Dragon because after all what is a dragon but a big lizard) and how ...

Personal Development

Can questions frame your answers and provide direction?

I have been participating in a study with Marshall Goldsmith over the last few weeks. In it I get a set of 7 questions. They were ...

Personal Development

Trying Versus Doing~ A Tribute to The Man in the Arena

I have come to an interesting perspective on failure; at least interesting to me. A few years ago I met a friend who signed his emails ...

Leadership / Personal Development

Who Are You Inspiring to Be Great?

My Wife clues me into some excellent sources of inspiration. Tonight she had me watch Oprah’s interview with Pharell Williams. For those of you that don’t ...

Leadership / Management / Personal Development

How to Achieve Balance (If you want to)

I often read varying points of view on balance. Some say balance is the key to a happy fulfilled life. Others say that if you are ...

Personal Development

Personal Integrity

I have quit smoking at least 30 times. It has now been 8 years since I had a cigarette. We all talk about integrity. I’ll bet it is part of your organizations mission statement. In fact I’ll bet you will jump through hoops, work late and pull out all the stops to deliver on a promise you’ve made to someone. But what about the promise you made to yourself?

•    I’ll exercise three times per week
•    I’ll quit eating sugar (wheat, corn, processed foods, meat, you name it)
•    ...

Personal Development

If you don’t feel like it now, when will you?

I don’t feel like it

It is that time of year and everyone is making Resolutions. The gym will be crazy busy for about six weeks and then only the gym rats will remain. A study at the University of Bristol says 88% of the resolutions made fail. WHY?

My own observation is that people create a bunch of resolutions they feel they SHOULD make. (And let’s be honest we all have something we could improve upon). That said they get started ...

Business Culture / Personal Development

What do you know? Really…

When we are born we are the proverbial blank slate. Then our parents, our teachers, our peers and the media start delivering information to us. Where there was no information there now is. And now all new information is judged in light of the information we already have.

In the time of Copernicus and Galileo the world was flat and the Earth was at the center of the Universe; that was the truth. Today we know differently, (until we don’t).

So what does this have to do with ...

Personal Development

Do Be Do Be Do …Redoux

I have been having a running dialog with colleagues for several years no on the idea of “being” vs. the idea of “doing”.

I have heard things like:

-    “It’s not what you do that defines you.”
-    “We are not our work.”
-    “Be the success you want and it will happen”

I see a bit of truth in all of these statements, BUT I don’t think it is complete. I call it the do be do be do paradox. ...

Business Culture / Personal Development

Thoughts Are Things

I continue to be pleasantly in awe of the perennial teachings that some say go back to Hermes.

Hermes	“As above so below.”
James Allen	“Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but ...

Personal Development

Are Your Filters Too Tight?

Recently I had the opportunity to listen to a recording of Eli Pariser speaking at TED, l regarding what he calls Filter Bubbles. This refers to the filters we establish and or that are established for us to filter information.

Many of the readers of this and other blogs use RSS Feeds as a way to create lists of what we feel is relevant content so that we don’t have to listen to or read all the other “stuff” that is published. I know I was ...

Personal Development

Can Your Intentions Make A Difference?

I just finished reading a book “Manifesting Change” by Mike Dooley. The main premise of the book is that we often get hung up on “how” we will do something and we get stuck. He points out that it is more important to focus on what we want to accomplish and to start working towards that. Even if we take baby steps, you would be surprised at the results. Thinking on this I was reminded of my own experience.

As I graduated from college, my friend Dan and I were dreaming one night ...