“All businesses are loosely functioning disasters” ~Brent Beshore You spend all day looking at everything that’s wrong with your business… …and I spend all day seeing that everyone has a ton of things wrong with their business! (Seriously, no one’s business on the inside looks like it does on their website!) What are you doing…
For some, work is just a way to earn a living and build up savings until they retire. For others, ones who have found their life’s work, they don’t want to retire. Instead, they look for ways to keep working, keep making a difference, even past “retirement age.” If you are in the latter category,…
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. – Andrew Carnegie I remember my first day as General Manager of M&S Systems. I called all my direct reports in for a staff meeting to try to understand the business. I immediately noticed that I…
I’m in the middle of a coaching call with an agency owner, and we’ve gotten down to the root of a problem that’s been plaguing him for a while. He now sees clearly what needs to be done, but it’s not going to be easy…he falls silent as he contemplates his choices. “I’m not sure…
Do you ever have a day that makes you want to give up? Looking back at the end of the day, maybe it would have been better if you’d just taken a day off. Sure, you’d have more to do on Monday, but at least you wouldn’t have all these messes to clean up! You…
Humans are pretty bad at decision-making. No, really, left to our own devices, we’re biased, take shortcuts, overestimate our abilities, and gloss over complexity, resulting in wrong decisions roughly half the time. Worse yet, we’re terrible at evaluating our own ideas. We want to be “right,” and we do an amazing job selecting data to…
One of the exercises that I often assign to clients is to create their “ideal week.” By sitting down and thinking carefully about what you need to get done in a week/month and then blocking off time to get those things done, at a time when you have the optimal energy to complete them, you…
During one of my one-to-one coaching calls last week, a client said something that I’ve heard many times before: I’ve been so busy lately that I’ve been putting off writing proposals and now I have like 5 – 6 people who I promised proposals to — but I just don’t want to do it. So,…
Our last conversation talked about how success doesn’t make you happy, but it might increase your income! If you find yourself with more disposable income, what can you do with money to improve happiness? Thankfully, we have academics who have researched this question, and their findings were surprising (to me). This study used lower-income and more…
“Unhappy is he who depends on success to be happy.” ~ Alex Dias Ribeiro, a former Formula 1 race-car driver. In my 30’s I worked HARD. I got up early and headed to the office before 7 (to beat the traffic). I worked with intensity. I crushed my to-do list. I managed all the things….