22 November 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Blast From the Past

I found this recently in Forbes. It’s a question asked of Stephen Covey and it’s good. If you had to write The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People over again, would you change anything? Explain. I would not. The sequence of the habits is the important thing. To win a public victory, you first need [...]

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06 March 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Making Time Last Longer

As I write this it is a surprisingly warm early March day. I’m reminded that for the next six months my schedule is going to include lots of golf which, while pleasurable, is going to eat up a lot of hours. About 15 each week if I play twice. That means I’m going to have [...]

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14 December 2009 ~ 1 Comment

What Do Coaches Do?

For most of our clients the purpose of coaching is to help them achieve some difference between their current situation and a defined future goal. For example, if a client wants to double their income over three years, we take the difference, [i.e. the increase in their income], divide that number by 36 [months] and [...]

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26 October 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Separate Passengers Without Delay

On a recent holiday in Ireland I met Derry, a dairy farmer, from whom I learned more about ‘passengers’, a topic I’ve mentioned before. Derry raises and sells cows. To be profitable in that business it is necessary to invest expensive resources, like food, on the most valuable cows and cull the rest of the [...]

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13 April 2009 ~ 7 Comments

Create Momentum With the Correct Cruising Altitude

We received this from our friend Ann Gomez @ Clear Concept Inc. Have you ever experienced burn-out? If so, you’re not alone. With too much work and too little time, it can be oh-so-tempting to put in a few more hours to get one more thing done. But this comes at a cost. Life is [...]

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