Posts Tagged ‘Action’

Over and Over

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

How much thought, energy, and effort has gone into helping others find some mystical key to success? If you were to scour the internet looking for resources on how to become successful in your work or in your life, you would undoubtedly find thousands of ideas, strategies, tactics and suggestions.

I must say that I am often skeptical of such advice, partly because “success” never seems to be defined the same way by any two individuals. For many people, success is some number, some amount of money. For others it is some level of achievement or stature or title. For still others it is a feeling of peace, or a belief that you are helping people.

However you define it, one key element has got to be consistency.

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Year of the Dragon

Friday, December 30th, 2011

This weekend represents the coming of a new year, and with it, new resolutions.

I freely admit that I have been all over the map as it pertains to resolutions. I have had years when I believed a resolution was a waste of time, and could back it up by the statistically low probability of follow-through.  I’ve poked fun at health clubs that seem to be sardine-packed on January 2nd and vacant a week later.  I have had other years when I succumbed and made them anyway.

Much like a friend you haven’t seen in a while, I am inviting resolutions back into my life. I am endeavoring to make one or two and stick by them.

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The Power of Little

Friday, December 9th, 2011

I am not exactly sure what it is about this time of the year that gets so many people tied up in knots. Confusion, complication, and overwhelmedness seem to reign in the hearts and minds of too many of us.

Is it the season? Is there something about the holidays that makes us over-think things? Do we so desire to take things to completion before the end of the year that we begin to wonder if we can get it all done? (Ironically, we can get all tied up even wondering about what ties us up!)

I want to offer a bit of coaching that could really save us this year.

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To Deflect (Or Not)

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

For years I have been saying that one day I will write a book about deflection. Of course, saying that I am going to write that book and not writing it is actually a form of deflection.

From a coaching standpoint, deflection is the manner in which our clients evade action that they know would be good for them. Why on earth would anyone avoid action that directly benefits them?

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Tie a WHY to It

Friday, October 28th, 2011

One of the most crucial roles a coach plays is helping people stay on track with specified action. There are countless methodologies to how we coaches help our clients do this, and an equally vast array of deflections we must combat. Sometimes we must inspire and other times we must speak a sharp truth.

Why don’t we just do what we know would be good for us?

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All Too Well

Friday, October 21st, 2011

In the past two days, I have heard a couple of really gifted speakers address a large group of sales professionals. It is amazing how we can hear the same message over and over and still enjoy hearing it.

Sure there are some different approaches and styles of delivering the message and that is OK. But when you boil it all down, the things we must do to advance ourselves or make improvements of any kind are already in us. Still, we need these reminder messages because the truth is that we often don’t really need new messages but we would be wise to let our ears and our hearts be open to old messages.

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