(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Is there something you want to ask for, but find yourself holding back. Everybody holds back from asking for what they want from time to time. Why? It’s just an ask. Asking doesn’t seem to be that difficult…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Much has been written and said about the word abundance. Most of it is not too useful. When you cut through the noise abundance is really quite simple. Abundance is a feeling. When you have it, when you…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Normal. A dictionary may define normal as “average, usual, conforming, ordinary, common.” Wow, to be called normal sounds like an insult! Yet, historically, that’s what you and I have been normed (there’s that word again) into being and…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   A good friend, client, colleague, and mentor to me passed away recently. Those who knew him spoke of his ‘magic.’ I think I may know what at least part of that magic was about. You may have it…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Opportunities abound. At least they do for the person who is looking and aware. The more you look for opportunities the more you see. But few people spend much of their time looking. They are content to just…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Recently re-reading the entire collection of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons, written and drawn by Bill Watterson, I was struck by a recurring theme of Calvin’s and how it shows up in adults, too. Calvin, a six-year-old kid, and…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   It’s easy to get caught up in the work-hard-to-succeed model. Encouragement to do so is all around us. But my Coaching clients (highly successful folks) have demonstrated some compelling alternate views. For one thing, nobody ever became successful…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Letting go is an art. Initially it is a skill to be developed, but once developed, it becomes an art. Your art. That’s because the way you learn to let go will be unique, in all the universe. I…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Proficiency is Perishable. The truth about proficiency intruded my space recently. Having deferred learning to fly for forty years, I happily earned my Private Pilot’s…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   I read a new book the other day about the early days of the space program when I had an ah-ha. He describes how the astronauts — for the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo…