Posts in high performance

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…

Breaking News: Those Goals Aren’t Goals

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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…

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…

The High Cost of Getting Your Foot in the Door

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Recently a colleague called me to ask for some help figuring…