With the ease of access to information on search engines, social media and other digital channels we read so many snippets of stuff that we’re reading all the time. But it does make me wonder if reading full-length books are becoming a thing of the past? It’s all so...
“Always remember that the main thing is to make the main thing the main thing.” – Brendon Burchard This quote struck me. The way I see it, there are 2 parts to it: Part 1: Figuring out – what is your main thing? Part 2: Making sure that you...
As I woke up this morning, an interesting visual appeared in my mind. It was a banner (kind of old movie, Charlie Chaplin style) that said, WEEK 1 I’m a great believer in the power of sleep. I regularly go to sleep while intentionally pondering a...
We’re so scared to ask for stuff in case we get told “no.” Hearing no is tough for us humans because we immediately make it personal. The “no” sends a thousand messages that only we hear, in our own heads. Messages like: I’m not...
The student raised his hand and asked… Since we’re learning about communication and how to get our message across impactfully, why is it that the education system is still based on sitting in lectures the whole day taking in information that just tires us...
I often reflect on accountability and how it shows up (or doesn’t) in my coaching engagements. Not without some guilt I might add. Guilt because I know that when my clients decide on an action to take forward from a session, I don’t always follow-up. In...
I subscribe to Daniel Pink’s newsletter. He sends out newsletters so infrequently that he managed to escape my “unsubscribe” frenzy and besides, I happen to really like his work so that when his most recent newsletter entered my inbox I actually opened it and read it....
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks furiously unsubscribing from every newsletter that has landed in my inbox. My peak email count was an average of 160 emails a day. My inbox was out of control. Going on a business trip for 3-4 days meant that I came back to...
I decided to set myself a challenge: write 7 blog articles in 7 days. One per day. The reason for this challenge was to get myself going with writing again. Writing is something I love doing, I have ideas for blog pieces running around in my head every day and yet,...
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