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…
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…
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…
As you can imagine, I spend a lot of time talking to people about what they want to accomplish. In fact, after 14 years of talking to people about their goals, I have learned that what most people think are goals are something else…
Life is painful. There, I said it.
Every day we have some sort of pain that shows up: emotional, physical, mental, something. Consequently, we spend much of our time running from pain. We hire therapists, life and business coaches, or consultants to help us figure out how to get out of pain and stay there…
If you lead people, you have one of the toughest jobs in the world. At the same time, if you are saying any of the these things about or to […]
Recently a colleague called me to ask for some help figuring out what to do about an opportunity that had come his way. Through his marketing efforts, a company in […]
If you find yourself unable to take action or confused about what to do next, it’s not because of your lack of motivation. Lack of motivation is caused by a […]
I spend a lot of time talking about the fact that leaders need to have a great set of coaching tools in their tool box.
But what about leaders being coached?
Most of my colleagues would agree that the quality of the coaching a person is able to deliver has a direct correlation to how coachable they are.
What matters to you? No…. I mean, what really matters? What have you done today or this week or this month about those things that you claim really matter to […]