Reading Time: 4 minutes Why do I often suffer from difficulty in decision making? Imagine you are setting out on a road trip. Your bags are packed, you got great tunes, and you got munchies for the road… and a long journey ahead of you fully of choices big and small. Life is a lot like that road trip …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes In part one of this 3-part series on creating meaningful and provocative conversations, we talked about what makes a meaningful conversation so meaningful. We also explored how to mine your small talk for conversational gold, using a values-exploration technique. In this section, we will discuss how you can create a shared connection when the …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Defend Your Conversations From Boredom We’ve all been in boring conversations. Those conversations that feel like a pair of smartphones talking to one another. Maybe it’s new people without a lot of common ground, or maybe it is just very surface-level topics, but whatever the reason, you just can’t seem to make a genuine connection. …
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Reading Time: 7 minutes Telling Compelling Stories Isn’t Complicated — Here are 3 ways to tell a your story so that it connects. By now, we’ve all heard the advice that storytelling is pretty useful. Stories seem to function as some sort of social panacea. They help sell, they build leadership, they create romantic attraction, entertain, engage, and generally …
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Reading Time: 4 minutes We’ve all experienced failure. It can be so frustrating when you have put a lot of time into an activity, considering all the angles, and then game time comes and things do not go according to plan. How could this happen? What did I miss? If we aren’t careful, in the post-failure aftershock we’ll take …
Reading Time: 4 minutes When action-oriented people feel stuck, there are two fairly common (but frequently counterproductive) ways they seek feedback to get motivated again. See if either of these sounds familiar… Common Get-Unstuck Strategy #1) Reach out to friends who are also stuck to talk it through. This can help you feel genuinely heard and understood by your …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Ever have one of those days when you just can’t do it? Not today. You can’t even. So stop asking. You’ve reached the end of your rope, the bottom of your drawer, the last straw of your tolerance for Andy (the well-intentioned but slightly-annoying-if-you’re-being-honest guy from accounting). Andy. If one more person asks you for …
Reading Time: 4 minutes It can be painful to get critical feedback from someone that you care about. After all, we are all out there doing the best we can with what we’ve got. No one is perfect. We are bound to make mistakes. It’s not like life comes with a user manual, am I right? Every time someone …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Let me ask you a tricky question. Would you rather live in a world where everything is a result of fate and you have absolutely no free will, or a world where you have ultimate free will, and nothing at all is predetermined? At first glance this might seem like a silly question. After all, …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sometimes people ask me why I’m a coach. What would drive someone to devote their life to helping other people accomplish their goals? Wouldn’t you just rather be a barber or something? And I say no, imaginary human that I just made up as an example for this post, I would not rather be a …
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