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
Slumps Happen Everybody hits the wall sometimes. Mentally I am on overdrive. Balancing a growing business, my education, my family, and a full time job has got me on a productivity overload. Personally, my shoulder injury has had me on a non-plan-plan. I hit the wall this week when I started feeling a little too, shall we say, "cozy" in my work uniform. I put on a few pounds. The pain Read More
I look around and see folks in a slump. I see people trying feverishly to get something going. To bring in more, to somehow change their position in life. Their confidence in their product hasn't translated to a confident selling practice. Don't get your shorts wadded up, I haven't cornered the market on selling anything either. I am a work in progress. Progress being the operative term. I learned in Dale Carnegie Read More
FEAR: The killer of dreams and performance.... The one biggest killer of your potential is the resistance caused by fear. It's your personal safety switch. It keeps your head down when bullets are flying. Unfortunately it keeps you from standing apart from the herd and pursuing a truly exceptional experience. Killing fear requires 3 things. 1. Knowledge. 2. Passion. 3. Grit. 1. Knowledge. Knowledge is power. Develop skills and tools directly related to Read More
You Reap What You Sow Where are you planting your seeds of confidence? If you are of the mind to achieve Excellence in this world, that is going to take confidence. Belief in your ability to execute. So, I ask again, where is that seed planted? Would you plant that seed on a windy rock outcropping? A well beaten path? A thicket row? That is what many of us do with our Read More
Who succeeds, and who doesn't... I met a man the other night that I really have to stop and congratulate. I didn't ask him if I could write about him, so I will just call him "Jim". Jim is a very young man, and Jim is retired. Many of you are thinking "What is so great about that, that you will subject us to a blog about it?" And I answer, nothing. Read More
Inspiring the motivation in clients to be, do, and own a higher level of performance is a daunting task for any coach/trainer. I align my coaching practice with both life coaches, and combatives coaches. Performance, and professional coaches each in their own right. We often talk about the issue of client retention, marketing, and overall lack of interest in a populace that is screaming mediocrity. Why do we sometimes fail to Read More