I once sat down with a potential client who had read The Inside-Out Revolution and thought I’d be the perfect coach to help her make a difficult career transition. At one point she got so frustrated with my unwillingness to provide her with a clear action plan that she yelled “Just tell me what to f*@#ing do and I’ll do it!”…
Here’s a somewhat clumsy drawing of how the principles behind the human experience work together with our brain to create our experience of life…
One of my coaches once described my business strategy as being “like a man who’s job it is to lay railroad tracks.” He pointed out that I was always running just ahead of the train, laying tracks as fast as I could in fear that if I didn’t, the train would derail…
There is an urban myth about a CEO who was asked by his team how they were supposed to pull off an impossible project at work. He replied, “Be awesome.” When a senior member of the team asked what they should do if “being awesome” wasn’t enough, the CEO replied, “Be awesomer!”
I am writing this week’s missive early on Sunday morning, long before Super Bowl XLIX kicks off and I lose myself in a feeding frenzy of pizza, nachos, wings, beer, and the trials and tribulations of my beloved New England Patriots…
