What if there was nothing wrong...ever?   I was sitting with a client this week who was stuck in the middle of some unwanted circumstances. Amy spent the better part of twenty minutes trying to convince me that the things she was dealing with, her husband,...

We’re approaching the halfway mark for the year. How goes it? Are you firing on all cylinders on your big commitments or are you behind? And if you are behind, are you wobbling? When things are not going as well as I intended, my mind wants to adjust the...

Stuck in a rut? - turn your business into a game. Here’s a cool interview I did with one of my favorite coaching clients on the power of “Playing the Game of Business”. Bjork Ostrom and his wife Lindsay are the owners of the wildly...

How to increase your sales - sell to people, not companies   I was sitting with a client last week as he walked me through his marketing and sales plan. One of the markets his company was targeting was commercial property managers. It was an intelligent,...

How to defeat fear: The power of confrontation   Notice what your reaction is when you hear or see the word : confront   For most people it’s not a great association. It sparks images of conflict or brings up memories of uncomfortable conversations from...

Avoiding Burnout: ENJOY your time off. If you live in the United States, tomorrow is Memorial Day, a 3 day weekend which is traditionally the start of summer. So in a perfect world you’re not reading this newsletter as it goes out on a Sunday at 6am. I’ve...

What’s the missing I could provide? I have a client, we’ll call him Bill, who is in the middle of selling one of his companies. The framework of the deal is great, but it’s a complicated transaction that’s been dragging on for a while. He just wants it to...

So what. Now what? - How to stay present when things don’t go your way. What do you do when things don’t go your way? Do you allow yourself to get taken out of your game? And if so, for how long? Here are a few difficult situations I heard from clients...