Where’s The Money? (#675)
We’ve all heard the saying ‘Do what you love and the money will follow’. But what do you do if it doesn’t?
We’ve all heard the saying ‘Do what you love and the money will follow’. But what do you do if it doesn’t?
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?
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.
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.