A Seasoned Business Coach and Consultant, NLP Master Practitioner, Noted Seminar Leader and Author shares techniques and ideas to help you achieve more, work less and have a blast along the way!
“Things do not change; we change.”~Henry David Thoreau
Questions. I love a good question. Good questions take my brain in new directions and put me into different and useful perspectives. Let me ask you a few questions today:
How is your company doing this year? Is it doing all that you want or need?
When was the last time that you evaluated how you and your company perform critical tasks?
When was the last time that you brought in an outside (not already part of your company culture) trainer or consultant?
Did you know that there is a very strong correlation between you and your company’s commitment to ongoing training (especially outside training) and the ultimate success of your company?
I asked you these questions today to “prime you” for a testimonial. I had the pleasure of sharing the stage earlier this year with an outstanding trainer and consultant: Tim Murray of “A Simple Twist”. Tim immediately grabbed the attention of the audience, entertained the heck out of them, gave them some memorable new ideas and left them energized. He can breathe new life into material that you already need your employees to learn and he comes already equipped with a great breadth of timely and critical trainings that it would serve you and your employees very well indeed to see. If your budget permits, do yourself and your future a favor, and have a conversation with Tim about what he can do for you. Read the rest of this entry »
“I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.”~Author Unknown
I have been trying to write a book, actually a number of books, for nearly 3 years now. Some are nearly done, others are ready to present to publishers - title, 3 chapters or so, concept and market research; still none of them are done! Time to change that.
The reasons for completing the first book are compelling. The excuses for why the first book is not yet published are seeming trivial now. So here is my commitment: By 5pm, Central Time Zone, Wednesday September 17th, my first book will be for sale - in at least 2 versions - in at least a physical paper version and a downloadable version. That is my commitment to myself, my readers, my family and friends and my clients.
What will the book be about? I haven’t decided which one to bring out first. I will make that decision soon and you can read about it here.
Till next time…Jack
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, 1893
Hi everyone. Just a quick update. I closed out my last Colorado phone number last week and activated a new phone account in this region. My phone number, for at least awhile, is: (515) 360-4711
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.~Albert Schweitzer
I was invited to speak recently at the University of Colorado on career issues - really the speech was about career mastery. It was a fun opportunity for me to speak here as I had graduated from CU Boulder and it felt somehow appropriate that my final speech in Colorado before I left the state for good be a speech at CU.
I generally check out the venues where I will be speaking ahead of of time, when possible, and I had that opportunity this time. I was speaking in one of the large classrooms in the Duane Physics building and I took these photos there before the seminar began. It was a really poignant moment for me. I took some time and wandered the campus and remembered lots of great things about my time there. It felt somehow like another graduation and commencement to me. Thanks for the memories CU!
Till next time…Jack
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.~Richard Bach
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.” ~Thomas Edison
17 days left. You have 17 days left in this year to fulfill your commitments to yourself for 2007. You have 17 days left to plan and prepare for 2008. How are you doing? How well did you do in 2007? What are you going to do in 2008? Have you put together a workable and exciting plan for making 2008 the best year in your life so far? There are 17 days left.
I just gave my last seminar for 2007. It was a smaller group, by design there were only 40 or so attendees, and the seminar focused on annual planning. It was a 3 hours seminar and we went over all of the basic steps in planning…planning that gives you a great chance to really make your dreams part of your everyday reality. I really enjoy giving this seminar and I think it is one of my most impactful.
I’m going to write a bit about planning over the next few days. This makes sense for me since next week will be my personal annual planning week and planning will be much on my mind. I take 40 hours every week and devote it to planning and this is perhaps the most valuable and pleasurable time I invest each and every year. If you are serious about making 2008 your best year ever, consider reading my blog entries and then planning as I suggest.
“To succeed, we must first believe that we can.”~Michael Korda
Affirmations have been around for a very long time. I have used affirmations myself quite successfully and commonly recommend that my clients use them as well, once they know how! Reading affirmations is not enough to elicit change. Reading affirmations written by someone else to address their issues is not enough to elicit change. You must be using affirmations, both state and becoming affirmations, that specifically address limiting beliefs that you hold.
A great way to start, to identify areas of your internal beliefs that would benefit from analysis is to read affirmations and as you read be aware of your reactions. Do you already believe this? Do you believe something else that serves you better? Does this affirmation feel false or untrue? Do you wish that you believed this? You can have an entire world of responses to affirmations, and your responses are your first guides.
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”~William Shakespeare
I am giving a seminar in Boulder Colorado next week called “Fearless Self Promotion”. I could have easily called this seminar “Getting Past the Fear of Rejection”. The fear of rejection and the failure to promote yourself and your business are tightly wound together. I can tell you from my own experiences in getting past the fear of rejection and the experiences that I have had in helping hundreds of clients to get past this same fear: Nothing will cause you more stress and make it harder to successfully grow your business and make it more likely that you will ultimately fail than the fear of rejection.
This fear is so common and often operates at a completely unconscious level. It manifests as procrastination, and stress, and confusion, and illness and so many other reactions and behaviors that it is commonly missed and the person trying to grow their business from a core state of “Fear of Rejection” has no clue what is going on. At the same time, I have worked with clients so disgusted with themselves, and their fears, that they are literally hating the entire aspect of their personality that is controlling this fear. Here is a strong belief of mine based on experience: If you hate part of yourself, you cannot possibly win.
The process of getting past the fear of rejection is a process that I mastered. I mastered it initially to help myself; Read the rest of this entry »
“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.”~ Lovelle Drachman
Well, that was more of an adventure than I was expecting. I recorded this mp3 numerous times until I got a copy where the sound quality was fair and the file size was not overly large. You can listen to the file right here, or you can hopefully get a download of the file by subscribing to my RSS feed. I haven’t verified that feature as working yet, being able to get a copy of the file from my feed, but I will know soon. Is that whole thing about my RSS feed gibberish to you? Well, email me and I will try to help. You need to know at least a little bit about RSS if you are going to be effective in your time online.
I wanted to thank Martin Laine from 1pixelout.net for the Wordpress plugin that I am using on this blog. I am not the most technically savvy and I was able to fairly quickly get the plugin uploaded and configured and working. What you will be hearing on this post is directly the result of my material playing thru Martin’s plugin. Thank you Martin!
Do listen to this mp3 in a quiet and safe location. Do not use it in your car! Do not use it where you can be interrupted! Turn off your phones and treat yourself to some time just for you. Send me comments and experiences please. This is the beta version and I am working on the full release version for release around the 1st of December 2007. I would love to be able to take your experiences into account when I am tweaking the next version! The player is below. Try it out!
And now for a picture of someone who will be very technically savvy and that right soon! Read the rest of this entry »
“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy”. ~George Bernard Shaw
Last time I talked about choosing your first peak emotional state that you wanted to install. I am going to assume that you have done that. Now I want you to get some leverage on yourself…leverage for making this change.
Why do you want this new emotional state? What will it mean for you to have this? How will it change your ultimate destiny? How will it change what you are able to accomplish for yourself? For your family? For your friends? How great will it feel when you have successfully installed this change in yourself?
The 9 step exercise itself will be continually helping you with reasons to change. That is part of what it is designed to do. Answering these questions first, before you begin, will help you to “prime” yourself to make the process as effective and delightful as possible.
A now a piece from Richard Bach, perhaps most famous for this Jonathan Livingston Seagull book. This piece comes from “Running From Safety”. I would place this book in the top 5 books that have had the most profound influence on the last twenty years of my life. It if full of great and useful empowering states and beliefs. This piece I just love! Read the rest of this entry »
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.~Dale Carnegie
This post will have some additional information about using the NLP Generalization Technique that was demonstrated and practiced in the seminar on Wednesday, October 24th. I know that a number of the seminar attendees were profoundly affected by the exercise and are anxious to work with it more on their own. I am working on the newest generation of the MP3 self guided version of the technique and I will have the link out to those of you that sent me emails as soon as possible. Look to the end of this entry for more explanation of how to use this exercise.
It was a great seminar at the Boulder Chamber. We had about 30 people show up and that was just right for this day and this topic. We did some very intense personal change work and had a blast. Oh, and before I forget, here is a picture of my new ponytail, something I have not had since I was 16. I love it!
Here are some simple explanations that will help you with your recall and practice of the NLP based technique I demonstrated: Read the rest of this entry »
