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
Emergency Training as an introduction to fear was the topic of my last post, highlighting an engine fire and evacuation event in the B737. Why did I take you on that flight and not tell you till the end that it was a training event? Not to get you thinking I was cool for saving the day. I assure you, I am not. Rather, it was to Read More
It was 530 in the morning, we taxied out for takeoff in Salt Lake City, UT., and the visibility was low. Really low. With the fog impeding our runway we had to utilize the Heads Up Display, a thick piece of glass with instruments projected on it that is installed in front of my windscreen for takeoff reference. I called for the before takeoff checklist as I Read More
Coaching Confidence has some real challenges. People have many similarities, yet each of us has our own lens that we view the world through. Building confidence for each individual has some common demands though. We need to look at the reality of the life of each person differently, and find experiences that help them build desirable pathways to success in their own environments. In any circumstance, my aspiration Read More
Success Solution: Words Changing the way people talk can change their chances of success. I spend a lot of time trying to make my training program, Resiliency Path Training, help people make changes to improve their lives. I have been looking for the one true measure of what will signify success in my own efforts. I think the indicator is language. How do they talk when they are finished with RPT. Read More