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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…

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…

Fingernails, Fitness, and the Demise of the Coaching Profession

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Coaching is everywhere. Have you noticed?  I have, and I am betting you have, too. Take a look around, you will likely see that everywhere you turn someone is offering coaching or calling themselves a coach.   As you probably know, I am a professional coach, and this change in the landscape of coaching got me curious. Is coaching really a profession at all?…