S:0875 Principle: Participate
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Today starts the eighteenth year (880+ issues) of writing and sharing these weekly tips, from a Coaching perspective, about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It’s time for a change. I made the decision in the beginning […]
S:0874 Distinction: A Professional vs. A Natural
(Distinctions are subtleties of language that, when gotten, cause a shift in a belief, behavior, value or attitude.) People who have the in-born, DNA-level wiring to do something are said to be ‘naturals’ at that something. Athletes, musicians, teachers, mathematicians, Coaches, parents, sales people, artists, everywhere you look and in every endeavor there are […]
S:0873 Principle: Seeing Into Others
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) What if you left people alone to just be themselves?K What if you could enjoy them as they are? Radical ideas? Sure, but consider it. You would probably need to change some things in yourself and you can […]
S:0872 Quote: Happiness
(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.) “Happiness is not the point. Happiness is the pointer.” Steve Straus Coaching Point: Some thought leaders argue against happiness being the purpose of the evolutionary process. They say it’s folly to imagine that the outcome of fourteen billion years of evolution (or six thousand years […]
S:0871 Distinction: Being vs. Becoming
(Distinctions are subtleties of language that, when gotten, cause a shift in a belief, behavior, value or attitude.) Have you known people who describe themselves as seekers of enlightenment, or evolving, or some other term which implies their interest and pursuit of some form of higher consciousness? Well, good for them. This S3MC does […]
S:0870 Quote: Liberty
(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.) “The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.” Thomas Jefferson Coaching Point: A part of the core wiring of humans is the desire to be free, to want to experience liberty. The technical term for it is the desire to be self-determining. It’s […]
S:0869 Principle: F-P-S
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) In the film business FPS means frames per second. To an engineer it stands for feet per second. For other arenas FPS has other meanings. In this S3MC F-P-S is short for ‘first there is Form, then there […]
S:0868 Principle: Asking Effective Questions
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Okay, this may seem a weird example, but have you ever baked a cake and had it fall in the middle? If so, your first response was probably, “What ingredient did I leave out or which ingredient was […]
S:0867 Principle: Confirmation Bias
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) An (all too) common characteristic of the human condition is our amazing ability to avoid seeing truth/reality. Instead, we choose to see whatever it is which confirms what we want to see, our existing bias’s. This characteristic is […]
S:0866 Principle: Dreams
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Have you ever experienced the Eternal — while your feet were firmly on the ground? That is frequently a part of a meditation/ prayer/spiritual practice, but it is also a part of dreaming. To be able to dream […]
