Unleashing Your Power – Where Does Your Future Live?
June 30th, 2011
The future has an impact on us. It affects how we feel and the actions we take. It’s not what we have had in the past, but how the future looks to us that has the greater impact. For example, imagine a person who earns $50,000 per year and sees that next year he will earn $60,000 and another person who earns $500,000 per year and sees that next year he will only earn $400,000. Continue reading »
Unleashing Your Power – What happened to summer?
June 3rd, 2011
You may be saying to yourself, it’s not even summer yet, what is he talking about, “What happened to summer?” Allow me to explain. Continue reading »
What is your organization’s reason for being?
April 28th, 2011
Over the past few months I have had the great privilege and opportunity of working with several executive teams, supporting them in designing new futures for their respective organizations. For each of them, their interest in engaging in such a journey was prompted by some issue or dissatisfaction with the status quo. For one it was to drive synergies across previously siloed business units to spur growth. For another it was looking to have the staff elevate their ownership of driving results to ever new levels. For a third it was shifting out of a legacy culture to achieve a new level of performance. And there were others. Continue reading »
Unleashing Your Power – The Tooth Fairy and an Empty Inbox
March 29th, 2011
The Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, unicorns and an empty email inbox. For most of us an empty email inbox is just as mythical a creature. I’m here to tell you it does exist and it is possible for you. Continue reading »
Unleashing Your Power – Procrastination
February 22nd, 2011
February 2011
A colleague gave me a magazine article on procrastination. It was a reprint of a book review that originally appeared in October about a new book, “The Thief of Time” – a philosophical inquiry into the nature of procrastination.
A description of the book contends, “there has been no sustained philosophical debate concerning [procrastination].”
I took that description as a challenge and began my own inquiry into procrastination! A first stop, as in many good inquiries, was a search on Google. In 0.11 seconds, Google returned over 4.2 million results. I browsed several of the results. There was quite a bit that was provocative, some that I found useful, and yet I was still left with more questions than answers. Continue reading »
Unleashing Your Power – Procrastination
February 22nd, 2011
February 2011
A colleague gave me a magazine article on procrastination. It was a reprint of a book review that originally appeared in October about a new book, “The Thief of Time” – a philosophical inquiry into the nature of procrastination.
A description of the book contends, “there has been no sustained philosophical debate concerning [procrastination].”
I took that description as a challenge and began my own inquiry into procrastination! A first stop, as in many good inquiries, was a search on Google. In 0.11 seconds, Google returned over 4.2 million results. I browsed several of the results. There was quite a bit that was provocative, some that I found useful, and yet I was still left with more questions than answers. Continue reading »
Unleashing Your Power – Coming Off Auto Pilot
January 25th, 2011
We all know what it’s like. Pulling up in the driveway at home and not remembering how we got there. On a teleconference call hearing someone say our name and scrambling to figure out where the conversation is at. While on email hearing our child saying, “Daddy, you’re not listening to me!”
A lot of the time we are on auto pilot – wrapped up in our thoughts and not aware of what is happening around us. In his essay, Dr. David Rock quotes a study saying we are on auto pilot nearly half of the time. Continue reading »
Resolve to make no more New Year’s Resolutions
December 28th, 2010
Continuing the theme from last month’s newsletter, I’d like to speak about creating 2011. Many people I have spoken with have given up making New Year’s resolutions; it seems we are largely ineffective in changing habits (you can read more about that in previous newsletters). That said, many people create goals for the coming year. Some people create the goals then forget about them, some write them down and look at them at the end of the year, and some organize themselves to take the actions that will realize the goal.
Whatever path people end up taking, the act of creating yearly goals can be very useful. And, there are ways of adding power to whatever goals we may take on. So, get out a piece of paper or open a blank document and let’s get started! Continue reading »
Thanksgiving Redux
November 30th, 2010
Many of the people I have been speaking with at this time of the year have had little on their minds outside of making it through the year intact; doing their best to handle all they have on their plate, some attempting to overcome the difficulties of the past year. I have heard some conversations about next year, yet minor in comparison to the topic of the remaining few weeks of this year. I, too, find myself focused on what’s yet to be done. It’s easy to get sucked into all that is unfinished, to be handled, incomplete. Continue reading »
Meetings, Meetings, Meetings
October 26th, 2010
In working with a client last week, they raised an issue that is common with virtually every client we work with: meetings. There are many issues people, and perhaps you, face with meetings. These include: Continue reading »
