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Go out and Fail…Please

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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

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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.

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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.

What’s that Smell?

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Sales people have a saying: “Every no gets you closer to a yes.” Sales managers use this saying to help keep their salespeople motivated. This saying and the idea behind it are absolute BS. Sure, even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes, but if you have to get 90, 80, or even 20 nos before you get a yes, you have a major problem…
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That’s Not Gratitude…That’s Bragging

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If you spend any time at all on social media you have undoubtedly seen many posts expressing “gratitude.” Over the past few months, I have seen a lot of this, and while some of these posts were inspiring, many of these posts were, well, irritating.  So I got curious about it.  What was different? Why were some inspiring and others irritating?…

Nobody Wants Wimpy

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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

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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

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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…

Pain or Pain?—You Choose

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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…