John Assaraf has been a leader in understanding how to use the most recent brain research to retrain the brain to work in our favor in creating health, wealth, and happy relationships. Since appearing in the Secret, he’s been a featured writer, speaker and thought leader. This video is a great explanation of how our [...]

Four Frequent Business Problems Expressed by Many Small Business Owners that Business Coaches Help You Address As you’re reading through the following problems, think about how help with strategy, tactics, accountability and results could mitigate these problems. The ‘I Don’t Know What I Don’t Know’ Problem The ‘I Don’t Know Where to Start’ Problem The [...]

Jim has to make a decision. Tom is on the accounting team Jim supervises. Tom is a likeable person and he does his job fairly well. However, lately he’s been coming in late, taking long lunches, and being rather unfocused. He’s taking a long time to get regular  work done. How should Jim talk to [...]

I was running late for an appointment last week and jumped into my car and turned the key. The nice smooth sound of ignition I was so used to hearing was replaced by the horrible grinding sound of an engine just about to turnover. I kept turning the key thinking that by some miracle it [...]

An executive recently lamented that she and her company had far too many projects going on. All of them were important, she said, but insufficient progress was being made on most. In fact, she described her company as being “very good at getting things 80% done!” “Why can’t we ever complete anything?” she asked me. [...]

In Jack Canfield’s book, The Success Principles, he tells the story of a seminar where he held a $100 bill in the air and asked the audience, “Who wants this $100 bill?” Almost everyone raised their hands, dozens of people shouted “I’ll take it!” and many more stood up and cheered. This went on for [...]

We’re coming into the fall get-busy-again season which means a renewed effort at meeting new prospects and strategic partners. In a previous post  we listed the 10 Commandments of Networking. Here are some more tips that can help make your networking efforts more successful. – Wear something that makes you stand out, still business like [...]

Are you the kind of person who likes to get away? Get away from big city noise and traffic and crowded sidewalks? Get away from a series of appointments and emails and the pressures of a normal workday? Would you really like to do more planning and evaluating, but never seem to find the time? [...]

Affirmations are powerful statements you tell yourself to move yourself into a positive reality, statements that you know at other times to be true, statements that empower you to bring out your best when you get into dangerous territory of thinking about the negative. We all experience things that seek to destroy our motivation, setbacks [...]

This week and next we’re highlighting marketing as a part of the release of a new coaching group. Going forward in your marketing is like going forward in most everything. If you believe you can, you will. If it’s part of your comfort zone, you will do it easily. You will make time for the [...]