On Writing Daily Coaching Tips (#674)

While this may seem a bit recursive to those who have only recently joined the DCT, some of your brethren (and sisteren? :-) have been gamely reading these mini-tomes since January, 2000, and the single most frequently asked question has been this:

How do you come up with a new tip every single day?

The Art of Sprinting (#668)

People sometimes ask me how it is I get so much done and seem to take so much time off. My answer is that I have learned “the art of sprinting” – that is, how to give my all to a project and then rest, recover, relax and renew.

The Goldilocks Principle (#661)

A client complained to me recently that he needed to become more disciplined, as he was failing to hit his targets in several key areas of his business. Years ago when I was first starting out as a coach I might have taken his complaint seriously and worked with him on becoming “a more disciplined person”, even taking the time to explore his patterns of self-sabotage and encouraging him to ‘just try harder’ and ‘focus more’ on what he really wanted.