I do some childminding for a lovely family, and this week, the younger girl brought home a “Congratulations” certificate from school. This got me thinking about celebrating success and achievements as an adult. When was the last time …
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Do you have any big goals that you’re struggling to make a start on? Or goals that you’ve had a go at several times – but where you keep failing? Perhaps you think there are some areas of …
Success. Growth. Abundance. Results. Excellence. These are things we set out to achieve in life. Whether it is at work, in our relationships, with our health, in our fitness regime, or with our friends, we do our best …
Success. This word means different things to different people – but I imagine that when you read it, you think about how it would feel to achieve your goals, to enjoy yourself, and to be proud of the …
“I didn’t know where I was going until I got there.” When we were kids, life was so fun and fresh. Maybe it’s because we dived straight into adventure. Because we didn’t think of success or failure in …
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I spent a lot of my childhood in single-wide trailer that we shared for bit with a family of opossums. More on the opossums in a bit. My parents got divorced when I was 7 and after my …
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“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” – Stephen King A few years ago, I started writing again. I badly needed it. It was …
In 2007, I left my finance job as a VP and opted for an entrepreneurial career as a Business/Life Coach, Speaker, and author. This meant saying goodbye to a good salary, bi-monthly pay checks, a life in New York City and living 15 minutes away from my mom and brother. I moved to California in 2009, wrote a book, Living in YOUR Top 1%, and this past week spoke to over 400 people at three different companies ranging from real estate to a Fortune 500 company in healthcare to an investment company. I never regret my decision because I wake up the majority of mornings being excited about my work and the opportunity to make a difference.
As an entrepreneur and the CEO of my own business (like every entrepreneur), I am in charge and directly responsible for developing new coaching programs, marketing, business development, giving talks to various companies and every other area. Some days are great and other moments are frustrating but I know this is my path. Here’s what I’ve learned along the way both from my experiences and coaching other entrepreneurs and companies to help them excel.
Let’s say you want to become more productive. You Google “productivity tips”, and 46 million links appear. Click on a couple, and you notice most of them are lists of information, usually bullet-points like “use an organizer”, “keep your desk clean”, or “don’t take ‘Facebook breaks’ while you’re working!”.
So you try to use an organizer, keep your desk clean, and decide not to look at Facebook once every 2.8 minutes. Do you know what happens next? It’s what happens to most people. You slowly forget…forget that you wanted to be more productive, and that you made these little promises to yourself about using an organizer. And you’re back to where you started, except this time, you probably think you “can’t” become more productive.
Isn’t that what usually happens? Why is that what usually happens?
