Empowering Yourself to Make Sustainable Change
Empowering Yourself to Create Sustainable Change On Tuesday I spoke to a group of Sacramento small business owners and entrepreneurs on the topic of accountability. When I advertised this event, I chose not to use the word “accountability.” Why not? you may wonder. As a coach, this word is one I use regularly. And when […]
Taking a Stand to Create Change
Taking a Stand What does it take to create change? It requires, for one thing, a high level of commitment. We may start out with great energy, enthusiasm and excitement and say that we are definitely committed. We will take action and start down the road to what we say we want. But then […]
How to be Complete with 2011 and Ready for 2012!
Complete Your 2011 & Enhance Possibilities in 2012 Several years ago I began a practice that has been invaluable to me. It is based on a premise I learned in my coach training program that completion releases energy. Often we have too many “open loops” in our lives. One of the things I teach in […]
Perception – The Map is not the Territory
The Map is not the Territory Have you ever heard this expression — “The map is not the territory?” Stephen Covey talks about this concept in his book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. I imagine the GPS in my car. It does a great job of laying out the streets and many landmarks […]
What do You Want: A Well-Formed Outcome (Part III)
What do you Want & How will you get it? (Part III) What will you DO? “Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” – Sir Cecil Beaton DEFINE YOUR ACTION PLAN In […]
What do you Want? (Part II)
What do you Want & How will you get it? (Part II) “What?” “When you are clear, what you want will begin to show up in your life, and only to the extent you are clear.” –Janet Bray Attwood, co-author of The Passion Test. After reading my last blog, you have spent some time defining […]
What do you Want? (Part I)
What do you Want & How will you get it? “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the cat. “I don’t much care where…” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the […]
Trust-Building Behavior #13 – Extend Trust
Trust-Building Behavior #13 Extend Trust This is the final tip of my series, which has been adapted from the Stephen M.R. Covey book, The Speed of Trust. I can highly recommend this book to learn more on the subject of trust. Today’s tip is one you can learn more about in a book called Building Trust, […]
Trust-Building Behavior #12 – Keep Commitments
Trust-Building Behavior #12 — Keep Commitments There is nothing that builds trust like delivering results. In its simplest fashion, what this behavior refers to is keeping promises. At the end of the day, people trust you more based on your action than on your words. There are many quotes and sayings that speak to […]
Trust-Building Behavior #11 – Seek First to Understand
Trust-Building Practice #11 – Seek First to Understand and Then to be Understood Trust is built when people feel they are being heard. Stop now & remember a specific person, who does not, or did not, really listen to you. Recall how you felt not being heard. Chances are good that this “broke trust” […]