When you have a specific project to complete – do you dive right in and figure out what is needed and start the process – or do you check the deadline first and that drives your answer of when to start? Or, in your own business, you know you need to make some personnel changes, hiring some new people and letting some others go. Do you take action as soon as these decisions are clear or do you wait hoping something will change? These are for example purposes, however, the question about … [Read more...]
Do You Connect With Your Heart?
Do you connect with your heart? What I’m asking you is - are the majority of your conversations and even your relationships transactional based interactions? My bet is they are! Your work/business is mostly transactional right? Appointments and meetings and schedules to follow. Sell, sell, sell. Measuring results and optimizing people or processes or teamwork. What would happen if you introduced some heart? Especially now as more and more of us are getting reacquainted with in person … [Read more...]
What Lessons Have You Learned?
“Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.” – Vince Lombardi This pandemic is a once in a lifetime event. These last 19 months have been like nothing we have ever experienced before. Many people call it a “once in a lifetime event”. Or is it? Is it possible something similar or different with an impact this severe or worse may happen again and soon? Of course no one wants this to happen. However, what if it did? Will you be more prepared? What lessons or take-aways do you … [Read more...]
Does Time Influence Behavior?
Do you find that time influences your behavior? For example - How long would you wait for someone meeting you for a lunch or a dinner gathering at a restaurant? There’s no response back from your text. Not even the third one. Your voicemail messages were never returned. They had confirmed that morning – everything was on – all set to meet and looking forward to it. What is happening inside of you as five minutes goes to ten minutes, then to fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty and … [Read more...]
Are You Trusted?
“Trust is built with consistency.” ~ Lincoln Chafee The International Rules Of The Road for all waterborne craft at sea are followed all over the world. When you’re on a ship out at sea at night and you see the red running lights of a ship on your starboard side which is crossing your path – that ship will hold its course and speed – because they trust that your ship will adjust its course or speed to allow their ship to safely cross in front of you. Similarly, your ship would trust that … [Read more...]
Do You Give 100% Every Day?
Is it possible to give 100% all the time at what we’re doing? Let’s start with an example. Professional athletes have a strength coach. Odds are they have a nutritionist or they work with one along with some others. Professional athletes respect their need to focus and have the ability to quiet the crowd noise. So the majority of them work with a professional coach for their mindset – their head – their brain. Another thing pro athletes do is they respect rest days. They take a rest day … [Read more...]
