Sometimes a client will ask me what is coachability, or maybe they’ll ask whether I think they’re coachable. If you’ve ever wondered about either of those, I have an answer for you. It’s in the form of an example – an athlete who is coachability personified.
I stumbled across the story by accident. You’ve probably heard [...]
So here it is past the middle of January already, and NOW I’m getting around to talking about goals? Little slow, aren’t you Burke? Well, maybe not. Stick around… I think you’ll like this.
Maybe you still want to set some goals. Fine… that’s easy. Setting goals is the simplest thing in the world. People do [...]
Change is highly popular – but only at a distance. For example, we tend to really like change in others.
….. “You know, he really should…”
….. “She’d be so much better off if only…”
….. “Why don’t they DO something about…”
….. “The government really ought to make them…”
But that’s change for them. When it moves over here, [...]
I’ve cut back on my postings during the Christmas and New Year season. You’re already overloaded with emails and blog posts from every direction telling you all the things you already know about the desirability of New Years resolutions, the wisdom of shaping up, trimming your weight, improving your relationships – or finding one – [...]
On November 30th I gave notice that I’ll be forming a group for learning and practicing self motivation. Name, BullsEye Club. Here’s exactly what I posted:
The BullsEye Club
Dates:
(Notice how these dates slipped?)
December 10
December 15
January 6
Announce details of the new group
Begin accepting applications
Open private forum
Start regular phone meetings
Action Plan:
To be announced on December 10
Commitment:
You’re my witnesses [...]
It doesn’t matter what you’ve got, whether inborn, purchased or gifted to you from another. Unless you’re putting it to good use, you might as well not have it.
Here we see a couple who, according to conventional thinking, have less than you or I, but who have dedicated themselves to using what they DO have [...]
Too much has been made out of motivation. W-A-A-A-A-Y too much. The truth? Motivation just isn’t all that complicated when you take a closeup look at it. In its simplest terms, motivation is a desire and decision to do a task… and that desire and decision are strong enough to drown out the urge to [...]
Sure, some of us are quick starters – sometimes. Maybe we’re the kind of person who LOVES to get our fingers deep into something new. The excitement is in the newness, but as we get farther into a project, we may tend to lose momentum.
What do we do then? How do we make ourselves STAY [...]
Inside you is a mechanism and a process that keeps you constantly moving forward toward the things your mind holds as targets. (You may or may not have exciting, satisfying targets, but that’s a different article.)
The point of this is, you are hard-wired to achieve, to strive, to move forward relentlessly until your life matches [...]
In this section, we look at how to stay on target, up to speed, and determined to keep right on going. Most people have been able to follow through and stay the course sometimes, but not every time. How would you like to have a never-fail method for always finishing what you start?
If you had [...]
