(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   It’s easy to hear advice from multiple sources about how you ‘should’ live your life. “Do important work” may sound like advice from one of those sources. But it’s not; it comes from within and is the pull…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Courage is an interesting thing. We’re taught to be courageous, to buck up, to “feel the fear and do it anyway.” Courage is part and parcel of the human journey, but what is it, this courage thing? As…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   In classic goal setting you are advised to set your goals and then set your mind to achieving them. A way of wording that mindset has been to insist on having your goals be achieved. The tricky bit…

(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…