Principles

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   All change is predicated on increased awareness. It’s obvious that no change can occur until you recognize the need for change. (Or have it pointed out to you!) If there is a change you want to make, rather …

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   PIO is shorthand for Pilot Induced Oscillation, a no-no in a flying machine. It occurs most frequently during landing when a pilot notices something is ‘off’ in the flight path and, in attempting to put things right, over-corrects. …

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   The word retirement is one which evokes a mixed bag of reactions. To previous generations it meant a time of rest and reward for a life of work and contribution. Sort of a ‘now for me’ period. For …

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   I love it when I get to see the essence of something, its simple truth unfettered by noise. So it was with the phrase ‘performance is potential minus interference.’ Wow, simple, clear, and direct. In each area of …

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   What is your 1000? That thing you’ve done so many times it’s pretty effortless or at least not hard? Sales calls? Writing? Creating? Building? Editing? Fixing? Playing? What is that something you’ve done so many times for so …

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Gifts. Giving. Receiving. Sharing. There are lots of thoughts about gifts. But there is one thought on gifts which transcends all others – the fact that you are a gift to us. All of us.   Coaching Point: …

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   As a young teenager I had a paper route. It was for an evening newspaper (dinosaur-dead now) delivered six afternoons per week, but in the morning on Sundays. I came to enjoy the quiet solitude of the pre-dawn …

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Precision is a wonderful thing. At times precision is essential; the consequences of imprecision can even be fatal. Think about landing a jumbo jet, surgery, driving on a snowy road, and designing a bridge. Getting it exactly right …

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Would you be surprised to learn that everyone is sensitive? The human central nervous system is exquisitely designed to be sensitive to a wide range of stimuli. Yet we seem to think of some people as being more …

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   “One does not become a success by envying and vilifying the success of others, but rather by imitating it.” So has said David Hawkins and many others, yet envy of success still abounds. When you look at the …