Accelerate the Path to the Goal
We all want to accelerate toward our goals, but sometimes we create our own impediments. Most of the time it’s something psychological that gets in the way – a barrier of our own design that comes from ignoring vital parts of the creative process. Those vital pieces are (perhaps to your dismay) setbacks, errors, mistakes, […]
Practical Insight: PEMS
Everything we do requires energy, and in today’s society, it seems like there are more energy vampires, distractions, and time commitments than ever… Generating and maintaining personal energy is, then, essential for leaders and entrepreneurs who want to operate at a high level. We need to charge our batteries and keep them charged to do […]
Being In the Now, and the Future
For decades now, the advice to “be in the present” seems to come from every angle. Spurred by New Age thinking and reinforced by gurus from every discipline, this message of presence and “nowness” is everywhere we turn. Is the advice wrong? Absolutely not – it’s just just incomplete, especially when we look at the […]
Practical Insight: Helpful Help
Coaching is an amazing experience on both sides of the proverbial coin. For the person receiving coaching, it can be a transformative process that inspires action and tremendous growth. For the coach, it can be just as informative and inspiring to help leaders clarify goals, develop strategies, and move throughout the coaching relationship. These relationships […]
Practical Insight: Self Control
If you want to create anything, you’ll need self control. Not just the discipline to follow the physical steps, but the self control required to put yourself in the right state of mind for fearless, honest creation. This type of control is about directing the mind, developing the capacity for both honest reflection of where […]
Practical Insight: See and Be Seen
I recently watched the incredible film The Whale starring Brendan Fraser in the finest performance of his career, a magnum opus that earned him this year’s Best Actor title at the Academy Awards. At its core, the movie is about love, and contains profound lessons about our inability to truly see ourselves the way others do. Fraser’s […]
Practical Insight: You Are Not Your Beliefs
Why do people say they don’t care what others think about them? It’s one thing to develop resilience to criticism, it’s another thing entirely to truly not care… If we didn’t care at all, we wouldn’t have any relationships. When people say these things, it’s typically false resilience – a defense mechanism against the need […]
Anti-Fragility Fitness Part 6: Finance Management
We’re back to today with our sixth and final domain of Anti-Fragility Fitness, Finance Management. This domain can be divided into two essential areas: investing and spending. Investing includes saving, and spending includes asset protection.With that in mind, let’s dive right into the practical elements of Finance Management that lay the groundwork for future stability […]
Anti-Fragility Fitness Part 5: Business Management
Today, in Part 5 of this series on Anti-Fragility Fitness, we’re looking at Business Management. This domain has five key areas of importance: We’ll take a look at these five essential aspects of Business Management, and dive even deeper in the audio presentation below. Innovating Innovating is first and foremost about staying creative. It’s about […]
Anti-Fragility Fitness Part 4: Relationship Management
Let’s talk about relationship management. Your relationships are fourfold… You have your personal relationships, you have your significant other, you have your supporting team, and you have your customers. There may be another, which are more of your strategic partnerships, and others that aren’t direct buying customers, but they’re conduits and intermediaries. The universal idea […]
