Look at the photo from this week’s life lesson. At first glance, it simply portrays a typical everyday scene from what could be your shower. It is in fact, my shower. Recently I was enjoying a relaxing shower when I reached for my soap on the shelf, and was dismayed to find that it appeared …
Strengths-Based Coaching
Lessons From Everyday Life – The Law of Attraction
When you first look at this photo you may find yourself thinking that this is an unconventional position for someone to pose for a photo. In fact, the elderly lady is not posing for a photo. She is positioning herself in the most comfortable way possible to read her tablet with the least amount of …
Lessons From Everyday Life – You Reap What You Sow
Two photos. The same person. Cause and effect. Input and output. A well-known principle. We reap what we sow. If a farmer works hard in the summer to plant and cultivate his fields, he will reap a rich crop in the harvest. This is an unfailing principle: you will reap what you sow. In the first photo …
Lessons For Everyday Life – Happiness Is A Journey
Can anyone doubt that this is a “special moment”? I do not know the details behind this photo, in other words, I do not know what led to, or created this “special moment”. I may know the people in the photo (my sister and her daughter), but I don’t know who took the photo, or …
Can You Fix a “Weakness”?
A child returns from school with their school report. The report reflects good results for all the subjects except one? What do most parents focus on? You got it, the “weakness” on the report. So off to extra lessons we go… A sales manager notices that one of his sales people is not as competitive …
Why You Cannot Afford Not to Coach Your Staff (Grow Performance by more than 20%)
Can you “fix a weakness?” Have you sent any of your staff for training to “fix their weaknesses?” Are you focused on helping your kids with their perceived weaknesses? If you answered “Yes” to any of the above questions, you may be surprised to hear me telling you that “you cannot fix a weakness”. Successful …
How Can Motivation Be Generated?
Attending a motivational talk, or reading a motivational book, can leave you feeling motivated, but this type of motivation usually lasts for a limited time only. It’s a bit like taking a hot bath, but the water soon cools off. So, does this mean you need to “plug into” motivational sources every day to sustain …
Pain or Pleasure, Sir? And You, Madam?
The successful man advises his audience to read a specific book, which he read years before, and attributed much of his success to having applied the principles in the book. Why will some go buy the book, but most will not heed his advice? The business coach tells the group of sales people that he …
Invest In Your Potential
In my previous blog I showed you how the results in your life were created by your own thinking and beliefs, which happily also means that you can change your results by changing your thinking. Albert Einstein said that we cannot use the same thinking which caused our present reality to create a different reality. …
You, and Only You, Are Responsible For What is Happening in Your Life
THOUGHT CREATES REALITY Are you happy with the results you are experiencing in your life right now (your career, your relationships, your health, your finances, etc.)? The fact is, your results are a reflection of you(your thoughts, decisions, choices, actions). In other words, youcreated the results you are currently experiencing! YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR RESULTS, BUT FIRST …