Routine and Confidence As we kick off another week, I asked myself, Chris, what is a tool that is very important in not only creating confidence, but maintaining it? My answer? Routine. I think routine is highly undervalued. Routine is what gets you through the slumps. Routine is what...
Now that’s a strong title. But what the $%^& does it mean? I was talking to my coach this week and we were evaluating the successes and ‘not so successes’ of our business this year. It’s a process I encourage everybody to undertake, a self-audit in June/July so you...
Don’t be a starter-kit self-help evangelist. No one respects that. Copy is filled with tight cliché’s and promises based on what was written in a book seventy years ago. We are beyond that now. People need real solutions to real problems. Right now, people are Outcome-Driven, Certainty-Focussed and Doubt-...
There is no magic to getting what you want. It might feel like magic when you look at the far off a goal from this position you are now in. It might feel like it’s going to take a Herculean effort, winning the lottery, a giant windfall from a...
Why do we sometimes feel stuck, even though we are continually doing all the things we are told should make us unstuck? The answer to that is remarkably simple. The Pattern Interrupt has become the pattern. Ever noticed what happens when a new app hits the market, or when...
In this second post on Fulfillment, I’d like to consider what we are willing to pay to get it. Now fulfilment is not the same as happiness. Happiness is a state that is linked directly to external events. Something out there makes me happy. Fulfilment is an internal game....
Hollywood got it wrong. I’m serious. The post-apocalyptic world of the Zombie take over has already started. Sort of. Well, if you call people walking around like mindless autonomon a precursor to a full out Zombie breakout – then yes I think we are on our way. Ok, let...
This will shock some of you. Your parents were not perfect. In all likelihood, they had the exact same fears you have. In all likelihood they lived a life of quiet desperation, hoping that children would bring a measure of success into their life. They were not superhuman. Just...
What is the path to this thing we look for called Greatness? Is it more work? Is it less work and more delegation? Is it no work and simply BEing in the moment? I mean, c’mon – someone tell me. The problem, of course, is that everyone – including...
What is the truth that we need to face to become the very best version of ourselves? The answer starts with the acceptance of a simple premise. There’s another level we can get to. Another version of us that is available out there. We reach for it, we strive...
