Cowboy Up! You see it. You own it. You're driven. Your baggage is aligned. Why won't you do it? The last piece of the puzzle is true grit. Stones. Cojones. Step up and do it already! Need help? Dig in. My non-Christian brothers and sisters, please find no offense here, the intent is to inspire. I'll dig as far back as the 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
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
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
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
On your last day, will you have truly lived, or grasp for another breath, hoping to capture what you have passed by? Me. In the Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi, a master swordsman of Feudal Japan elaborates on his strategy in the Book of Earth. I quote "Many different types of people have been known to die for either the right reasons or the wrong reasons. The only shame in Read More
Decide, Respond: Two very important words. I read somewhere that we should seek to "mine the gap". The gap we are talking about here is the gap between the stimulus and the response, more specifically, an event, and our response to that event as it relates to our confidence. We spend a great deal of time training this with many physical attacks. We look at it over and over, from different angles, Read More