Asking For What You Need: Selfish Or Successful?
Do you shy away from speaking up when there’s something you desperately need? Do you avoid asking for help and instead exhaust every other possibility first? Do you feel bad when you ask people for help? It’s not uncommon to feel that asking others for help is selfish. It’s a huge stumbling block for many […]
Focus, Energy Leaks And Sabotaging Behaviours
It’s often said that being an entrepreneur is the best form of therapy because that’s truly when we come up against ourselves. When you set out to achieve the meaningful goals on your journey, all your ‘stuff’ shows up in very interesting and subtle ways, like quirky behavioural and emotional responses. We all have them, […]
Coaching Is A Process, Not A Quick Fix Pill
There is a general misconception out there about coaching. Perhaps it’s because so many products and services are prone to overpromising in their marketing. Whether they come right out and say it, they are selling the ‘quick fix pill’ solution. If you click the button and buy, all will be revealed to you like a […]
Going the Extra Mile
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain Are you going the extra mile in your life and in your business or are you staying with the crowd by doing what everyone else is doing? That little bit extra is the difference between […]
Capitalizing On The Mistakes Of Others:
Should you capitalize on the mistakes of others or should you ignore the obvious opportunity to grow your business because it’s at the expense of another? It’s a question most entrepreneurs will encounter at one point in the growth of their business. It may seem opportunistic and even callous to take advantage of other peoples’ […]
Are You Slaughtering Your Sales Doing All The Talking?
Doing all the talking is something we learned not to do early on in our business lives and yet, it’s a mistake I see entrepreneurs make over and over and over again! Prospects do not want to be sold, they want to be understood and the key to doing that is L-I-S-T-E-N-I-N-G! During a recent […]
The Golden Moment Illusion
Watching the Olympic Games over the last two weeks, we saw many victories and many more defeats. We watched in anticipation as athletes who have trained their entire lives gave everything they had to reach that pinnacle moment: winning a gold medal. On the sidelines, we saw expected winners experience the crushing devastation as their […]
Overcompensating For Your Underperformer
Is an under-performer slowly eroding your corporate culture, alienating other members of your team and setting up a dangerous dynamic? Because that’s exactly what happens if you tolerate or compensate for a member of your team who isn’t pulling their own weight. Under-performance is one of those subtle dynamics that goes on in many businesses. […]
Success Is Never A Solo Journey
Whatever it is you want to achieve – whether it’s growing a business or going for Gold at the Olympics – you will need support people working in the background to help you succeed.Those support people can be your business partner(s) or executive team, your spouse or life partner, your children, your employees and even […]
Are You Stuck In Your Stories?
What stories do you tell yourself when there’s no one else but you listening? Is it the same brave, bold story you put forward to the world or an unrecognizable, painfully small shadow of your public self? Do you use your stories to manifest the life you know at some level is possible? Or do […]