Tweaking Your Life, Part I - The Key to Making Significant Changes

We all have the power to improve the quality of our life by making slight adjustments – tweaks – to the way we do things. These tweaks add up over time, with the same net effect as major adjustments without the pain of sudden, drastic change. The traditional wisdom of “no pain, no gain” does not apply when it comes to making significant life changes.

Empathy or Tough Love - Make the Right Choice

If you are too cold with someone when giving them constructive criticism then one might call you non-empathetic. But you most likely think this is hogwash because you believe in shooting straight and tough love. No sugar coating for you right? Well, great but there is only one problem with this and that is the politically correct crowd may target you for it.

Why Be a Youth Sports Coach or Mentor?

Recently, I was asked why I thought that being a coach or mentor was a really good idea. Indeed, I like high-energy, agility, strength, determination and perseverance, which athletes have. In my younger days I enjoyed playing not watching, I still enjoy competition and winning. In my day I was a track star. My mom went to all my track meets, I never lost must have been fun for her to watch her son win all the time.

Ten Strategic Steps to Achieving Personal Success - From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach

Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach wants you to be successful in your business life and in your personal life. And I am committed to continuously strive to provide sound strategic advice and coaching to help people succeed. With that in mind, I developed the following ten strategic steps to achieving success and wanted to share those with you.

Changing Perspectives - Changing Lives

The ability to help your client shift their perspective may be one of the most powerful and effective tools you have as a coach. Find out how you can support them through some small exercises that have big results!

How To Attract The Work You Love

First, decide what you want! Yes, it's that easy and that hard. What do you love to do? Decorate a house, take pictures, teach children or work with the elderly?

The Power of Saying 'Thank You'

It does not take much to make someone feel valued.

73 1/2 Things I Have Learned on Stage

73 1/2 Things I have learned on stage in my ten years of performing. Most of them, the hard way.

You're A Plain Idiot!

You're a plain idiot! That's the notion of shallow minded individuals, they kept on accusing and judging foolishly, but are they qualified to judge a man?

Everything Is Perspective

Everything we think and feel is completely in relationship to everything else around us. The trick to all of this is to change your perspective so that it serves your cause. Of course this is much easier said than done, however, it can be one of the most valuable things you could possibly do when it comes to the law of attraction and living the life of your dreams. There is a story that perfectly reflects this perspective that I would like to share with you.

Does Extra Body Weight Define Me

Growing up Amish was not easy and at times it was easier to eat than to deal with my emotions.

Life Coaching for Problem Habits - A Model of Change for Life Coaches to Use

This article looks at how a model of how people make changes proposed by the psychologists James Prochaska and Carlo DiClemente can be used by life coaches as a framework for structuring coaching intervention, particularly in situations where a client is seeking to break away from a habitual form of behaviour which is creating repeated problems for them.

How To Excel As A Life Coach

Excellence in life and executive coaching is the same as excellence in anything – you must make a decision to learn your craft. Learning is not just reading and studying a manual; it's actually doing the thing you wish to master. Life coaching is not a spectator sport, it is a full participation.

The Secret To Your Destiny

There are as many philosophies on life as there are people. Everyone has their own idea of what is right and what we should do with our lives. Some believe that the right thing is to avoid material things and to completely commit oneself to god. Others believe that chasing the mighty dollar is the only way to happiness. Yet others believe that a life of indulging in anything from drugs to sex is the key to happiness and well being. Ask a hundred different people, and each of them will have their own idea of what happiness and success are. So who should be believe? Who is right? What are we to do in a world so full of opinions and options?

Executive Coaching Response and Intervention

The Executive Vice President of a large corporation in Los Angeles contacted me seeking my assistance in working with a valuable staff member who was exhibiting an aggressive edge that was causing tension at their workplace. This Executive staff member had no idea that her colleagues felt she was addressing them with a defensive attitude and unpleasant, inappropriate angry comments.