The Choice IS Yours
How many times in the recent past have you or someone around you said, “I have no choice.”? I have been hearing it quite a bit recently, and it is driving me crazy.
Entries by Mattison Grey
What’s your most valuable business asset?
My most valuable business asset is not my coaching skills, creativity, experience or even my ability to help people get results. The most valuable business asset I have is…
Go out and Fail…Please
Cirque du Soleil has a secret, and it’s big.
It is that the performers are failures. They fail consistently, every day, every show, sometimes every minute.
Every performer, every day—failure.
Quit Crediting Yourself
As a coach I get many opportunities to help people be successful. I also have a front row seat to many failures. Many people tend to blame others for their failure; others will blame themselves for their failure. There are all kinds of scenarios for people taking credit and placing blame for success and failure.
The Worth Lie…Ever.
What’s a human life worth? Exactly. It is truly priceless.
So why are we continually trying to get “paid what we are worth”? Every day, I see marketing and coaching programs that suggest getting paid what you are worth is not only possible but imperative.
Seven Irresponsible Reasons to Offer Coaching Services
- People say I am a good listener.
- I am really good a giving other people advice.
- I was in human resources, organizational development, or management for 20 years….
Cracking the Acknowledgement Code
February 21, 2017
Based on the book The Motivation Myth and 15 years of experience working with and teaching acknowledgment, this workshop is five hours focused on just one thing: upgrading your communication to get better results with everyone, everywhere.
Nobody Wants Wimpy
Entrepreneurs ask me all the time “How can I get more clients and make more money?” At the risk of sounding like a broken record, my answer is always the same: “learn to sell well.” No one ever wants to hear this answer, but selling well, with ease, grace and authenticity is the single most impactful thing any entrepreneur can do for their business. Fortunately most coaches and conscious entrepreneurs won’t take this advice, which creates a great advantage for those who do…
The Problem of Positive Thinking
One of the biggest myths of high performance is that positive thinking is a positive thing.
While it might get you to mediocrity, positive thinking often gets in the way of high performers…
Saved by Belief
It’s no secret I am a student of high performance and high performers. So recently, when I got tickets to attend a taping of Oprah’s LifeClass, with Oprah and Joel Osteen, I was really excited. It was another opportunity to study not one, but two, high performers. In the two hours they were on stage they both said a lot of things that were amazingly valuable to the audience. Heck, they were valuable to me, but they weren’t about high performance…