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Is boredom affecting your joy at the office?

I have had seasons where I did not like my job. Unmotivated. Thinking the grass was greener on the other side. Granted a couple of those...

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Do you need a personal strategy day?

Are you struggling with paralysis by analysis? Do you need time away to just think? A few weeks ago I felt buried and was not motivated...

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Why I cried when I received Brian Tome’s foreword.

I know the title sounds extreme, but it is true. I pulled into the gym parking lot for a late afternoon workout and checked my email one...

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Do you want to destroy your competition?

Somedays I see other executive coaches or keynote speakers in this space and I am completely discouraged. Why do they have so many more...

3 min

Can you make the climb?

I had a drop in revenue of twenty-five percent from March to April. What?!?! How? Why? I had all kinds of thoughts running through my...

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What are your phrases?

We all have a set of values in our home and company, whether they are stated or not. We know our actions are louder than our words. ...

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Drum roll……….here is the book cover!

I am very excited to share the book cover of Win at Home First. Instead of just posting the picture on social media, I wanted to provide...

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How do you fire yourself up?

About twenty years ago there was a very popular and funny skit on Saturday Night Live called “Daily Affirmation with Stuart Smalley.”...

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“Win At Home First” book jacket (i.e. fancy words on the inside book cover)

Win at Home First gives business leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives a practical, eye-opening guide for thriving both at work and...

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In your niceness, are you accepting mediocrity?

At this time of year, most business leaders experience the same tension. We started off the year with big goals for ourselves and our...

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Do You Celebrate Overcoming Your Failures?

We all have had failures. Poor moral choice, an aggressive move that backfired, a bad financial decision. These failures happen to all of...

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If your business decreases, you are a loser.

If our business decreases in revenue from one year to the next, then we think we are a loser. For that matter, when anything we manage is...

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Did they really say that?

We recently had a very cold day of rain, followed by freezing temperatures at night, thus ice in the morning. I had been up for a little...

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Are you overlooking the moment for the memory?

I know one-on-one dates with each of my kids is important, but if I am not careful, I overlook something more valuable in the process....

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My new year is starting bad. Is yours?

My year has already had a setback. Maybe you can relate. I came into the new year mentally tough. My family and I had a fantastic...

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What are you going to stop?

I constantly look at my phone and sync for updates. Did I get any new emails? Did anybody like my new photo or video I just posted? ...

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Are you overwhelmed? I am.

Some weeks are amazing and some weeks are overwhelming. This past week was overwhelming. So overwhelming, I lost a little peace and joy....

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What do you do when things are going wrong?

This past Friday night was supposed to be special. Our family was going to start a new tradition for the five of us. We were going to...

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Will this really make a difference?

Quotes like ‘what got you here, won’t get you there’ can be very haunting to me. The thought of always tweaking and modifying can be...

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What, So What, Now What?

This is the time of year we think strategically about next year – both at work and home. Next year budgeting, New Year’s resolutions,...