Leadership Coach – Simple Gratitude Of Saying Thank You

Aly Pain talks about the simple act of saying thank you as a lost art in our world. When was the last time you said ‘Thank you’ to someone for something that is expected of them? Not even for going above and beyond or doing something out of the ordinary, just for being a positive […]

Leadership Coach – Slow And Steady Wins The Race

Aly Pain talks about how so many of her clients are struggling in a yo-yo environment of all or nothing. This gives they great success when they are up but they fall behind are totally exhausted and usually sick in the down turns. Over time it has been proven that this method does lead to […]

The Price And Payoff Of Procrastination

Aly Pain talks about the simple prices you pay when you procrastinate, if you are willing to tell yourselves the truth.  It is in fact the small things that, over time, erode our self-esteem and have us making less and less commitments in fear of not succeeding at them. Look clearly at what you are […]

Transparency In Transition

Aly Pain gets transparent about her own transition process having just moved west to British Columbia. Transition can be challenging and the more you let people in on what is really going on for you, the more people are willing to be patient and excited about your process. This doesn’t mean having to tell every […]

The Five Lies About Blind Ambition

Aly Pain talks about the five lies of blind ambition that her clients often tell themselves.  These five lies carry heavy prices and none of them are new, yet people continue to do them over and over again.  Everywhere you look there are books by highly successful people who had blind ambition and are telling […]

Dominos & Preparation

Aly Pain talks about how finding the first domino, that one action step that sets off a chain of other positive steps, is the key to success.  Preparation is about finding that first domino and setting it up exactly with the rest so that with one touch, the entire line falls over. Maybe it is […]

The Land Of And

Aly Pain share about the possibilities available in the Land of And, and how stuck and limiting OR can be.  The land of OR is often when we feel trapped between two or more life decisions and we want all of them but have made up that for some reason or another, it is impossible […]

Change The Goal Or Change The Strategy?

You have set a goal and have a strategy to get there. Check. You start walking this out and now find that you are not getting where you thought you would be but a particular time in the process. Has this ever happened to you? This situation happens to lots of people, and businesses. The […]

The Ebb Flow of Business

Are you a yo-yo business that spends money and invests in people when times are good and customers are plentiful, only to put a complete hault on all of that when business slows and the income goes down? This knee jerk reaction is a reflection of short term visioning and lack mentality that will get […]

My Oprah Experience

Many people have a ‘Bucket List’ after the popular 2007 Rob Reiner movie. I believe in the concept, just not the name. My list is a “Top 100 Experiences” because I have no plans to kick a bucket any time soon, nor do I choose to focus on the bucket. One of the experiences on […]