The world will respond to you as you do it. Shower others, and yourself, with kindness and a new world will unfold right in front of your eyes. Smile more. Thank often. And, go out of your way to help another.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Friday, December 9, 2011
Coaching Moment #196 Caring for Yourself First
Coaching Mom ents used to be exclusively for my coaching clients and Champions members. We've now opened them up to share them with you via this blog. Coaching Mom ents are shared each Friday and meant to encourage you on your path to greater enjoyment and/or success- whatever you happen to be reaching for. They remind us to think about our paths, our decisions and our priorities. Hopefully they make you think about something and refocus. Enjoy.
#196 Caring for Yourself First
You are the model of what you can do for others. Read that again. If you are to care for me or someone in my family, I want to know that you know how to care for yourself first. If you care for others, give them the gift of the best you. If you sell “caring for others” know that your own care will be scrutinized.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Coaching Moment #195 Performance Review
Coaching Mom ents used to be exclusively for my coaching clients and Champions members. We've now opened them up to share them with you via this blog. Coaching Mom ents are shared each Friday and meant to encourage you on your path to greater enjoyment and/or success- whatever you happen to be reaching for. They remind us to think about our paths, our decisions and our priorities. Hopefully they make you think about something and refocus. Enjoy.
#195 Performance Review
Its time to take 15-20 minutes, over the next two days, to review your goal progress for the year. What have you accomplished? What do you still want to accomplish by years-end? Its time to sprint to the finish line and then gear up for the next race.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Coaching Moment #194 Ten for Ten
Coaching Mom ents used to be exclusively for my coaching clients and Champions members. We've now opened them up to share them with you via this blog. Coaching Mom ents are shared each Friday and meant to encourage you on your path to greater enjoyment and/or success- whatever you happen to be reaching for. They remind us to think about our paths, our decisions and our priorities. Hopefully they make you think about something and refocus. Enjoy.
#194 Ten for Ten
Take 10 minutes to ponder what 10 years from now will look like for you. Where will you be? What will you be doing? With whom? Describe where you will be professionally, personally and geographically. You can add other categories too like spiritually, financially… Be sure to visualize it and describe it out loud or on paper. It will help you get there and provide greater clarity for the road ahead.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Coaching Moment #193 Letter of Forgiveness
Coaching Mom ents used to be exclusively for my coaching clients and Champions members. We've now opened them up to share them with you via this blog. Coaching Mom ents are shared each Friday and meant to encourage you on your path to greater enjoyment and/or success- whatever you happen to be reaching for. They remind us to think about our paths, our decisions and our priorities. Hopefully they make you think about something and refocus. Enjoy.
#193 Letter of Forgiveness
I encourage people to write letters that they may never send. It releases you of built up emotions. It allows you to close the door to a chapter in your life. It does so much more. What letter would you write? To whom? About what? Write it. Read it one day later. Then, mail it or shred it. Move on.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Coaching Moment #192 Three-Week Challenge
Coaching Mom ents used to be exclusively for my coaching clients and Champions members. We've now opened them up to share them with you via this blog. Coaching Mom ents are shared each Friday and meant to encourage you on your path to greater enjoyment and/or success- whatever you happen to be reaching for. They remind us to think about our paths, our decisions and our priorities. Hopefully they make you think about something and refocus. Enjoy.
#192 Three-Week Challenge
What habit would you like to change? Perhaps a permanent change has been too difficult a challenge. Try three-weeks. Smaller time frames make change easier yet still allow you to reap the rewards and hopefully commit more long term.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Coaching Moment #191 Comfort Foods
Coaching Mom ents used to be exclusively for my coaching clients and Champions members. We've now opened them up to share them with you via this blog. Coaching Mom ents are shared each Friday and meant to encourage you on your path to greater enjoyment and/or success- whatever you happen to be reaching for. They remind us to think about our paths, our decisions and our priorities. Hopefully they make you think about something and refocus. Enjoy.
#191 Comfort Foods
What are your comfort foods? Name them. When do you like to have them? Do they remind you of being a child in your grandmother’s kitchen? Or, do they help you suppress your feelings? Be careful. Make sure your comfort food doesn’t become your vice. “Comfort” can be a gray area fraught with trouble if we don’t evaluate it correctly.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Coaching Moment #190 Dare to Dream. Dream to Act.
Coaching Mom ents used to be exclusively for my coaching clients and Champions members. We've now opened them up to share them with you via this blog. Coaching Mom ents are shared each Friday and meant to encourage you on your path to greater enjoyment and/or success- whatever you happen to be reaching for. They remind us to think about our paths, our decisions and our priorities. Hopefully they make you think about something and refocus. Enjoy.
#190 Dare to Dream. Dream to Act.
If you were in charge of a nation, what is the one thing you would change or institute? Think it through – all of the benefits, challenges and implications to other programs. Dare to make a difference. Then, once you have your national model of change (for what ever focus or area) consider how it can be adopted on a smaller scale in your company or in your community. Then, propose it and lead the charge. Sometimes it helps to think big to begin to think and act locally.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Coaching Moment #189 Step Aside
Coaching Mom ents used to be exclusively for my coaching clients and Champions members. We've now opened them up to share them with you via this blog. Coaching Mom ents are shared each Friday and meant to encourage you on your path to greater enjoyment and/or success- whatever you happen to be reaching for. They remind us to think about our paths, our decisions and our priorities. Hopefully they make you think about something and refocus. Enjoy.
#189 Step Aside
Take 2 minutes. Think about something you could do for someone else today that would make them smile. Next, take the 5 or so minutes it will take to do that very thing. Put yourself aside for this time and focus on making someone else’s day. You’ll reap the rewards. I assure you.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Coaching Moment #188 Put it in Writing!
Coaching Mom ents used to be exclusively for my coaching clients and Champions members. We've now opened them up to share them with you via this blog. Coaching Mom ents are shared each Friday and meant to encourage you on your path to greater enjoyment and/or success- whatever you happen to be reaching for. They remind us to think about our paths, our decisions and our priorities. Hopefully they make you think about something and refocus. Enjoy.
#188 Put it in Writing!
Go ahead. I dare you. Anything worth happening or that you want to happen… put it in writing. Read it each morning and each evening. Something magical happens when you do so. It will become reality.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Coaching Moment #187 Clean Up!
Coaching Mom ents used to be exclusively for my coaching clients and Champions members. We've now opened them up to share them with you via this blog. Coaching Mom ents are shared each Friday and meant to encourage you on your path to greater enjoyment and/or success- whatever you happen to be reaching for. They remind us to think about our paths, our decisions and our priorities. Hopefully they make you think about something and refocus. Enjoy.
#187 Clean Up!
Clean your workspace each week, if not daily. Toss anything outdated. Put important tasks on your calendar in a time slot. Wipe and disinfect the space. Start fresh.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Coaching Moment #186 Relax!
Coaching Mom ents used to be exclusively for my coaching clients and Champions members. We've now opened them up to share them with you via this blog. Coaching Mom ents are shared each Friday and meant to encourage you on your path to greater enjoyment and/or success- whatever you happen to be reaching for. They remind us to think about our paths, our decisions and our priorities. Hopefully they make you think about something and refocus. Enjoy.
#186 Relax!
Of all the courses we’ve taken in our lifetime, none were likely about how to relax. (Unless you are a yoga or meditation fan already.) They were more likely about how to keep going, doing… focused on more work and application. I encourage you to find ways to relax this coming weekend. Apply them through the week. Be your own teacher- you may learn something even more valuable this time around. (One technique might include: spend 10 minutes in the morning just focusing on your breath.)
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Coaching Moment #185 Step Out of the Zone… the Comfort Zone
Coaching Mom ents used to be exclusively for my coaching clients and Champions members. We've now opened them up to share them with you via this blog. Coaching Mom ents are shared each Friday and meant to encourage you on your path to greater enjoyment and/or success- whatever you happen to be reaching for. They remind us to think about our paths, our decisions and our priorities. Hopefully they make you think about something and refocus. Enjoy.
This Coaching Moment speaks to me now as I watch my daughter take her first steps.
#185 Step Out of the Zone… the Comfort Zone
We learn and grow when we step away from our norms. Take a class or read a book on a topic unknown to you. If you normally work on things independently, join a group for a team task. If you are wildly social, take a weekend retreat in solitude. Challenge yourself to do things differently at least once per week.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Coaching Moment #184 Perspective… Get Some
Coaching Mom ents used to be exclusively for my coaching clients and Champions members. We've now opened them up to share them with you via this blog. Coaching Mom ents are shared each Friday and meant to encourage you on your path to greater enjoyment and/or success- whatever you happen to be reaching for. They remind us to think about our paths, our decisions and our priorities. Hopefully they make you think about something and refocus. Enjoy.
#184 Perspective… Get Some
We often fail to see other’s perspective (full perspective) in a situation. We see our own. And it’s from this vantage point that we make all decisions and assumptions. I challenge you to choose three situations over the next week whereby you actively seek the other perspective. If you are a business owner, become the customer and see how they experience it. If you are an employer, look at something from the employee perspective. You get the picture… well, I hope you will.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Coaching Moment #183 Good Ole’ Ben…
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#183 Good Ole’ Ben…
Did you know that Ben Franklin began each day by asking himself, “What good shall I do this day?” He also spent a great deal of time creating a list of virtues that he felt made people effective- and then scored himself on them. He lived with purpose. And, he was brave enough to hold himself accountable- each day. Let’s all find our Ben.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Be Careful What You Wish For!
We rescued the bird but I can't say the same for you. So, be careful what you are wishing for. You just might get it. And, then what? Will it be the end-all to your problems or will it create more and perhaps bigger ones?
Think carefully about what really matters in your life. Make a wise decision not just one that feels good for the moment.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Coaching Moment #182 Two Best Friends in Success
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#182 Two Best Friends in Success
One is named action and the other persistence. Most people never act on their thoughts or concepts. Even less act and then persist. You don’t have to have the best idea to be successful. You just have to do something about it and then repeat.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Coaching Moment #181 How's Your Relationship
Coaching Mom ents used to be exclusively for my coaching clients and Champions members. We've now opened them up to share them with you via this blog. Coaching Mom ents are shared each Friday and meant to encourage you on your path to greater enjoyment and/or success- whatever you happen to be reaching for. They remind us to think about our paths, our decisions and our priorities. Hopefully they make you think about something and refocus. Enjoy.
#181 How’s Your Relationship…
…with yourself? Are you honoring your commitments to yourself? Have you created and made progress toward your annual goals? If not, who do you expect to serve you better… than you? Be your own best advocate. Rally for yourself this year and imagine the possibilities.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Coaching Moment #180 Are You Making Progress?
Coaching Mom ents used to be exclusively for my coaching clients and Champions members. We've now opened them up to share them with you via this blog. Coaching Mom ents are shared each Friday and meant to encourage you on your path to greater enjoyment and/or success- whatever you happen to be reaching for. They remind us to think about our paths, our decisions and our priorities. Hopefully they make you think about something and refocus. Enjoy.
#180 Are You Making Progress?
Another year is more than ½ over. What have you done this year that you are most proud of? Are you accomplishing your goals (both personal and professional)? If you’ve abandoned your goals, now is the time to rewrite them and sent a new course for the remainder of the year. You CAN do it.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Coaching Moment #179 Freedom or Independence… Pick One
Coaching Mom ents used to be exclusively for my coaching clients and Champions members. We've now opened them up to share them with you via this blog. Coaching Mom ents are shared each Friday and meant to encourage you on your path to greater enjoyment and/or success- whatever you happen to be reaching for. They remind us to think about our paths, our decisions and our priorities. Hopefully they make you think about something and refocus. Enjoy.
#179 Freedom or Independence… Pick One
Today pick either Freedom or Independence Independence
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