19 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Mentoring Tips [2] Work Hard to Visualize the Right Future

Your future will be very complicated. Lots of people, technology and constant change. If you have a mentor use them to help develop a good looking scenario for yourself. When we have the right images in our minds we’ve gotten to first base. Only then can we continue around the bases to develop the know [...]

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01 January 2011 ~ 0 Comments

How Do You Like to Learn & Teach

I’m reading Homer Kelly’s Golfing Machine by Scott Gummer.  It’s a good tale particularly for people like me who think about golf a lot. It’s the story of how Homer Kelly constructed a golf instruction system that reflected his way of doing things. He was an engineer who was pretty good with the intricacies of [...]

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28 March 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Plan for the Last Thirty

I saw an interview the other day with two people who had played the “30 Days to Live” game. They asked themselves what they would do with only thirty healthy days to go and then did so. When I thought about it my first instincts were to re-do a couple of travel things I had [...]

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21 March 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Be an Adjuster to Achieve Conscious Competence

Stress happens. We regularly face events and situations that stimulate hormonal reactions in our bodies. Our reactions are survival mechanisms that we don’t control but if we understand what’s happening we can adjust our behaviour to succeed. To be competent ‘adjusters’ we have to be conscious of what’s going on. So, for example, say you [...]

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21 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

What Do Coaches Do? Part 2

Here are five more ways a coach can help their clients. Underlying this idea is recognizing that ‘coaching’ is a generic term. These concepts are more specific actions. 6. A coach can be an alarm clock alerting their client that it’s time to do something. 7. A coach can be a beacon by shining a [...]

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13 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Success Builds Momentum

Typically people think that experience results from failure. That’s because people mostly focus on the negative. And that’s a result of evolution. Cautious people, who take a more negative view, survive at higher rates and have more descendents. But the way to build more momentum in your life is to create a victory list for [...]

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07 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Are You Addicted to What You Should be Focused On?

I’ve learned in the past few years that we get addicted to things that provide random rewards. For example with golf and learning a musical instrument you don’t know what’s going to happen each time you try because there are so many variables. Randomly you’re successful and get addicted. It’s similar with gambling and young [...]

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