IAS: Control What You Can Control
Feb 9th
A major league player I work with was preparing for his first post-season game. He was overly excited, and rightfully so. He had been dreaming of leading his team to a World Series championship since he was a little boy, and now he would have that opportunity. The night before More >
The Vision of Self-Image: From Chump to Champ…
Feb 5th
Twenty years ago I was an under-achieving, excuse-making chump of a man. I would do the bare minimum to get by and then blame my inadequacies on someone…anyone else. It was either my boss who was asking too much, or my professors who were being unreasonable or my friends who More >
Act “As IF”
Jan 18th
Be prepared for adversity by looking it straight in the eye and believing in yourself…no matter how difficult life becomes.
A national sales executive said the following to me yesterday in one of our coaching sessions, “No one is buying… We have been creative and aggressive in terms of finding opportunities. More >
Early Morning Goals
Jan 11th
Brian Tracy, a best-selling personal development author, calls the most important and most challenging tasks we need to complete daily our “big frog” tasks. Most people, he writes, choose to focus first on the non important tasks (the little frogs) and save the big frogs for last.
The problem is More >
ALWAYS Achieve the Bare Minimum of Greatness
Dec 29th
A financial advisor I work with said the following about his 2012 process goals, “I like to set my goals high because it will get me close to where I need to be. If I tell myself I am going to contact 20 clients a day I know I will More >
Developing the “No Excuse” Mentality
Dec 21st
Bethany Hamilton wanted to be a professional surfer and she had a good excuse for never doing so. At the age of thirteen, Bethany was attacked by a 14-foot Tiger shark while surfing off Kauai’s North Short. The attack left Bethany with a completely severed left arm. Losing an arm More >
OVERCOME…“The Aggressive Pursuit of Being Incredibly Average”
Dec 15th
Aspiring entrepreneurs want to make a million dollars a year and simply know their idea will deliver that result; yet, how many are willing to work with the purpose and passion required to generate such wealth? Thousands yearn to change the world, but they back down when the going gets tough. More >
Obsession for Improvement vs. New Year’s Resolution
Dec 8th
Have you ever stopped to think about why the “New Year’s Resolution” was invented? The truth of the matter is that resolutions are actually a form of justification that we have created to make ourselves feel better about over-doing it with food and drink and under-performing in our career over More >
Executive Toughness…Training for High Level Success
Nov 17th
Jack Canfield refuses to give up or give in. You may even call him relentless. In the fall of 1991, Jack had just co-written a book. Unfortunately, every major publishing house he met with told him that “short stories don’t sell.”
Undeterred, Jack relentlessly focused on the next possible solution. More >
The 4 Levels of Accountability
Nov 4th
A professional hockey player I work with impressed me recently with what I call the 4 Levels of Accountability. After experiencing several consecutive games during which he felt like his (as well as his team’s) performance was less than the high end of potential, he told me the following:
“I am More >
