Month: November 2017
Brent Hammond on Managing Your Energy
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Today I had the great pleasure of talking to Brent Hammond. I went to one of Brent’s courses in Vancouver a few years ago and when I was thinking of someone that I wanted to talk to about work life and rest, he was on the top of my list. Today Brent and I talk…
Are You Ready to Turn From Frustrated to Frickin’ Awesome?
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Business is a frustrating endeavour. Most of it is hard work that gets little recognition punctuated by mistakes that everyone sees. Everyone once in a while there is a bright spot and it keeps us going. In From Frustrated to Frickin’ Awesome, Alissa Daire Nelson is trying to help us remove some of that frustration…
The Easy Way is A Lie, Do the Hard Work
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There are a lot of things to focus on when you run a business. It doesn’t matter when the workday ends; there is always something that could be done. You could refine your marketing funnel. Reply to one more email. Reach out to a prospect. Tweak your site. Knowing this, it’s so easy to get…
When You Stop Trying, Progress Plummets to 0
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Any endeavour worth doing is hard. What looks effortless from the outside is the result of thousands of hours of previous practice. I can write 3000 words in 90 minutes because I have published more than 200k words in the last 12 months. I’ve published something like that every year for five years. It’s only…
My Phone sucks, and it’s one of the best things that’s happened this year
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I haven’t been kind to my iPhone 6S Plus. It’s been on a number of hikes where it got so cold it shut off. It’s turned itself off due to being way too hot. It’s slow now, and when travelling, I need to charge it every few hours because I’m using it. At home, it…
Week 5 Update and the importance of rest
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We’re in week Five of my final 12 week year and the pace I’ve been running at just shows me that, rest is so important. The first four weeks I got so much more done, but I’m already feeling how hard it is to keep running at a pace that I knew was not sustainable…
What 3 Questions Need to be Answered to Develop Grit?
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Grit has become a fairly common word now. Most people would understand it as referring to someone who keeps going when the going gets tough. I hope that all of you are ‘gritty’ people because if you’re looking for a voice that’s going to pat you on the back when you quit as the going…
No Screen Before Coffee
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I recently gave a talk to creatives in my town and the single most talked about topic after was my two rules about phone use and email. No Screen Before Coffee No email before noon Without a doubt, people loved the ideas, but no one I talked to thought that they could implement the strategies…
A Meandering Journey Towards Purpose
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If you’re hoping that the path to what you’re meant to do is going to be a straight line, you’re fooling yourself. My path towards coaching starting with numerous jobs where my wife and I always talked about the ways we’d never treat an employee. Then it went to higher education in counselling, which I…
4 Questions You Need To Ask Yourself To Find Your Purpose
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Running your business aimlessly is a great way to get stuck. Oh sure, you’re stuck with a healthy six-figure business, but you’re still stuck. You can tell you’re stuck because the work you’re doing isn’t anything you have a passion for. You don’t like your clients, and you question why on earth you’re even in…
