When you’re telling yourself to suck it up for forty or more hours a week, that’s when you’ve got to understand this is not okay. Think about it, if you’re 25 years old and planning to work until at least 65 years old, with a generous four weeks’ vacation a year, that still over 76,000 hours of your life sucking it up.
Read MoreYou can read about it all you want. You can research, gather data, take notes and watch videos but in the end all you will gain is knowledge. True understanding, comes from doing. Are you thinking that the sure way to become successful in business is only through higher education? Sure, it may help you, but it having an MBA will not make or break your business.
Read MoreBranding is no longer left for likes of Coca-Cola and Nike but also needs to apply to individual, and you know what, why the hell not. Many think that branding is all about having a logo, specific colors and typography, and yes, they are part of branding…but there’s a whole other layer. A layer that could truly help you better understand who you are and thus represent your true authentic self with greater ease.
Read More. It’s gotten to the point where you find yourself daydreaming about being called into HR, to talk about “your future with the company”. You think about all the downsizing that’s been happening, how you’ve started not really caring much anymore, wondering if it shows, secretly hoping it does and with just one meeting you’ll be released and finally able to ask yourself…what do YOU WANT TO DO?
What is the difference between them firing you and you leaving on your own? You can come up with all the answers you want, but in the end it’s fear…so what are you going to do about it?
Read MoreBeing the first with the answer, the first to the client and the first to the head of the line is not always where you want to be. What would happen if you took a moment before making a decision, offering a service or giving an answer? One moment to ask, “What information do I have, how much of it is known, and what other information would provide me with a more expansive view?”.
Read MoreRemember when it comes to getting opinions, they are just opinions, you still get to make the final choice, it’s YOUR LIFE. With that being said, making those tough decisions that are best for you, can be a lot harder, if you’ve allowed a bunch of opinions to enter your mind.
Read More“Being a personal trainer is like running a franchise.” – Paul Brady CEO
If you want to learn how to run a service-based business become a personal trainer. Though I officially only started my own business two years ago, and fully stopped working for someone else one year ago, I had been running a franchise for close to seven years. These are some of my biggest insights.
Read MoreThe entrepreneurial life has been compared to that of a rollercoaster, with sky soaring highs, followed by petrifying plummets, and stomach-churning corkscrews. Regardless of which portion of the ride you’re on, never forget it is indeed an amusement park ride….so my dear budding entrepreneur, are you having fun?
Read MoreHave you ever really thought about the size difference of doors and the hinges that hold and move them? A large solid core wooden door can weigh 70lbs, held up and moved by hinges that a weigh a small fraction of that, many able to hold and move up to 200lbs..more so if there’s more than one What can we learn from hinges?
Read MoreWe are creative beings, meaning that we cannot help but think of ways to express that creativity. We are part of the universe, literally made of stardust, the universe is expanding, and that expansive energy is within us needing to be released. There is no final destination, there is no ultimate summit, for once you reach that peak another will be seen that you weren’t aware of before. How then, do you marry contentment of ‘what is’ with the universal pull of expansion?
Read MoreLove is its own special realm within my mind. Wanting to fully understand love, I take a long inhale filling my lungs up with love. On my exhale the idea of unconditional love comes to mind. I pause, struck by a concept I had been perfectly fine accepting for decades only to wonder, “is there a need to define love as unconditional…does that mean that some love is conditional”?
Read MoreDo you think that make-believe is something one grows out of, a sign of being an adult is no longer participating in such nonsense? There is power in having a childlike wonder, in allowing your imagination to take hold, in allowing yourself to see, hear, feel and experience what is not yet real, what is still just make-believe.
Read MoreIn Part One: Money Doesn’t Care, we went over the foundations of money. Stepping back and taking a look at what it really is and what it represents without our own attachments. In Part Two we take that new foundational knowledge and look at actions to support those truths.
Read MoreWhat are your thoughts when it comes to money, do you have enough and is it possible to have too much? What associations and attachments have you placed on your relationship with it, and is that mindset helping you attract more money or repel it? How does one cultivate a healthy and robust relationship with money?
Read MoreSome have said those that have found their life’s purpose, have found their calling. They were either born with an innate talent (Bobby Fischer, Mozart) or had some sort of awakening during their life that made them take action. What really happens then, what is it that moves some people to change their lives completely?
Read MoreThe one thing that you’re refusing to do is probably the one thing that would actually make the difference. If you’re wondering how I know what your struggle is like, it’s because I’ve been there. I’ve been in that position, wanting to change, willing to try anything…but like that Meatloaf song from the 90’s “I’ll do anything, but I won’t do that”.
Read MoreBelieving in magic is not enough, the actions you take must be aligned with that belief. When I decided that I was not going back to the gym, and what I really wanted Strength & Grace’s main focus to be was life coaching, I had to take actions to reaffirm that belief.
Read MoreThe Year 2020 was like no other, and for me it was a year of lesson, after lesson after…the learning just never seemed to end. In Part One of share three of my biggest takeaways from 2020, Hold onto your Habits, Be Open and Keep Setting Goals.
Read MoreIf you’re thinking about stopping your efforts because the odds of success seem insurmountable, I want you to hold up right there. What if I told you that you’ve already overcome the greatest odds you’ll ever have to in your life, would that make you feel differently? What if you overcame the odds of 1 in 400 trillion, how bad ass would that make you feel?
Read MoreA stranger, walks into a bar and asks “what are your core values?” Besides the potential feeling of being judged and wondering if you were unknowingly doing anything that would provoke such a question, would you have a response? I thought for sure I would, I mean we all know our core values right…but when really pressed for tangible answers I found myself stumbling.
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