Igniting your Drive: Passion to Succeed Three very simple things I learned from living a dream, and then reading about it from the scientific perspective (Drive: Daniel Pink). Drive, or motivation, is comprised of 3 basic parts. Know them, play to them, and your motor will burn towards your success...even on those “down days”. To put it in perspective for chasing the new years resolution of fitness for me, Read More
New Year’s Resolution: Step 2, Take Responsibility! P. R. I. D. E. - Personal Responsibility In Doing Everything. I never got that as a kid. It was a giant acronym painted underneath the BEARS logo and mascot in our gymnasium in high school. It was at all the entrances of our gymnasium as well. How could I have missed such a valuable tool when Read More
Core: Lighting the Fire Wonder why your new years resolutions have failed in the past? I'll tell you why mine have. They lacked the nuclear powered core to carry it through to reality. It doesn't matter what your next New Years Resolution is, or that the ones past have failed. This Blog is headed down that Rabbit Hole, and I am putting my credibility on the line as a Read More
Does Your Brand Serve You? Yup, I’ve wandered off the path into marketing. Brand You. So, does brand you bring the results you are looking for? When you drive down the road and you see the McDonalds sign, or the Target Sign, Home Depot, etc, what comes to mind? If I said Harley, what comes to mind? Black and Orange logo, tattoos, leather, loud pipes.... So, when you think of your personal brand, Read More
Resiliency: A Path Through Grief My post yesterday talked a bit about the lessons my dog Gus had taught me, what his life was to me in example, and how I appreciated him, loved him, and will miss him. Writing about him was part of the cure. Grief hurts. I'd be willing to bet if we all sat in a room and pointed to the spot grief hurt it Read More
Stuff My Dog Taught Me About Dealing With People My dearest and truest friend died this week after a horrible injury. His name was Gus, and I don’t know when he was born, but I remember the first day we met. It was in January of 2002. He was living in a lab rescue in Tampa with 5 other dogs who were looking for adoption. Gus was the smallest of the adult Read More
Launch Your Performance, Decide And Don't Look Back. "When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome". ~ William James Once you pull the trigger on a decision, you have to be present in the process. If you want to have the best chance of getting your passion to reality you have to be in the moment. Here's Read More
Courage vs. Confidence Many confuse the two words as one in the same. Here is my .02¢. Courage is doing something on Faith. Confidence is doing something on the belief in your ability to be effective. You can argue this in the comments if you want, but this really isn't about confidence, it's about courage. Courage and Faith go hand in hand. Discussion of courage has been around since the beginning of Read More
People Skills Win Fights.... No, I'm not kidding. If there is one thing I remember from the opening of the Art of War, it was the following; "Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." - Sun Tsu Enter soft skills, or "people skills". We all know that there are a very, very small number of folks out there that are hell bent on engaging us on a physical level. Read More