Movitational Speaker Heresy

Today I am going to commit “Motivational Speaker Heresy”. I am going to suggest there is a problem with SMART goals It is a good acronym, and mostly useful, but here are my two challenges: The A stands for achievable. The real question is by who and by when. We all...

What is your definite purpose?

After some dreaming, some goal setting, maybe getting rid of some negative baggage, I would like to point you to what Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich) calls a major definite purpose. Coaching, at its worst, is helping people through the shopping list of what they...

Start Dreaming!

Do you remember when you stopped dreaming? If you ask a seven year old what they want to be, they know; astronaut, jet pilot, football star etc. (I wanted to be a fire truck, but I was confused.) somewhere along the road they gave up. Either someone they trusted told...

Retired not dead!

Well, it is a fact, as a society we have never been richer, older or fitter. So you got 25 years plus in a career, you are headed for the door or being pushed. You are too young for lawn bowling, and probably have 20 years of active life or more left. So now what? Are...

Review

This post may be the most important you have read from me in the last twelve weeks!Take a half-hour and review your long term goals. Do you still want that? Have you found something better? Have circumstances changed so that other solutions would fill you needs more...

Do you need to think bigger?

No blog series on goals would be complete if we didn’t ask, are your goals big enough? Many people needlessly limit themselves by not thinking big enough and risking visualizing what they really want and probably could achieve if they dreamed bigger, and acted on...