As a coach who believes in this work, I have a coach of my own—Rich—who basically tells me the same things I tell my clients. In any profession, we’re always learning. This week, Rich gave me an assignment that I sometimes give to my clients: Identify your five most recent new clients and tell me…
One way to be sure that you’re living the life you want is to identify what your values are, and then to allow all of your actions and decisions to be based upon those values. My friend Bruce, who died a few years ago, lived by five values that he shared joyfully with anyone who
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“NINE referrals today,” Dan, a financial advisor in one of my workshop programs, wrote to me. This doesn’t sound like a big deal to some people, until they put it in perspective. Up until that day, Dan was averaging four or five referrals per YEAR. The fact that he could receive his usual year’s worth
I spent a couple of hours last week with Reed, an attorney who had heard about my coaching practice and asked to meet with me to see if it was something that could benefit him. As soon as we sat down together, I asked Reed what it would take to make our session amazing for
This Saturday, January 21st, I will be giving the keynote address at a conference in Pennington, New Jersey, devoted to people who are “in transition”—the new code name for “out of work” or “between jobs”. The conference starts at 8 a.m. and ends at 1 p.m. and includes a choice of workshops to help people
I consulted last week with a financial advisor I’ll call Alex, who had two concerns: (1) He was feeling “overwhelmed”, and (2) he was not happy that his income was “inconsistent”. 2012 would be a great year for him, he told me, if he could only solve these two problems. I learned that Alex had
