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Stop Whining and 3 Other New Year’s Attitude Shifts

There’s a lot of talk about the ineffectiveness of New Year’s resolutions. Nothing new. Making personal changes is not easy any time of the year! A couple years ago, I was having a rough time personally. I wrote down 4New Year’s attitude shifts that I wanted to make. It was life-changing.

I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was on the road to burn-out. Thecoaching training business I led was booming, but the actual day-t0-day work I performeddidn’t align well with my passions and gifting. L...

My Top 15 Posts from 2014 (And What I Learned From Them)

Before rolling into the new year, I’m following Michael Hyatt’s cue and reviewing which of my blog posts were most popular. There are a few surprises and I learned a few things I’ll share below.

Here are my top 15 posts from 2014 based on the number of views:

7 Ways to Fly First Class for Economy Prices (October 29, 2013)
50 Powerful Coaching Questions (April 15, 2014)
3 Mistakes to Avoid When Coaching Across Cultures (April 2, 2014)
The Life You Want Someday Begins Today (January 6, 2014)
Why We N...

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6 Ways Businesses Need to Think Like Nonprofits

For 25 years, I’ve worked with nonprofit organizations. I’ve applied a lot of business principlesto nonprofits. These days, I realize that nonprofits have a lot to teach businesses too. Here are 6 ways businesses can learn from nonprofits about purpose, marketing the intangible, and employee engagement.

Nonprofits and businesses are a lot alikeand a lot different from each other. The learning comes from using the differences to challenge our practices.

Many don’t know it, but in Peter Drucker’s...

6 Ways Nonprofits Need to Think Like Businesses

There’s a mindset among many nonprofit leaders that says their organizations shouldn’t run likebusinesses. The fact is, however, if nonprofits learn to think more like businesses they will serve more people and see more lives changed.

Nonprofits often operate from donor income, receivewhat volunteers want to give, and provide their services at little or no cost. After all the purpose of a nonprofit organization is to change lives.

The visionary nature of nonprofits makes them susceptible to th...

Radically Improve Your Understanding of What People Mean

Communication is a two-way street. Someone talks. You hear, then interpret what they said. And this is the point where things can go wrong. We think we understand what they are saying, but often we don’t. Here’s why and what to do about it.

Four Reasons We Misunderstand What People Say

1. Words have multiplemeanings

At an Apple iPod release presentation a reporter asked how long the battery would last. “For years,” the Apple representative responded, but the reporter interpreted it as “four year...

Daily Routines of Road Warriors

When you travel do you see all your normal life-giving dailyroutines go out the window? That’s what I experienced for years as I traveled. In many ways, travel energizes me, but poor management of my daily routines wore on me. Here’s what I did about it.

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I travel a lot for speaking engagements and workshops. Usually, for a week at a time. Each place I travel tois new to me.

One thing that is constant is I’m always busy when I’m on the road. I often lead workshops that require...

Working From Home: 5 Ways to Increase Your Results

Working from home has some fantastic benefits. It also has some brutal pitfalls. A lack of boundaries, accountability, and self-discipline can make it difficult forthe virtual worker to getimportant things done.Here are 5 ways you can increase your results.

For more than 20 years I’ve worked from a home office. I’m not alone. Twenty-one percent of self-employed people consider home their main office. One in five other types of employees work from home at least once a week. [source]

There are so...

Escaping The Hamster Wheel At Work

As my training programsgrew, so did my busy-ness. New training programsmeant more systems to create and manage. More participantsmeant more emails to answer, registrations to process, orders to fulfill, and events to run. I became so busy running the organization that I no longer had time to develop new things.

I felt like I was running on a hamster wheel – going no where fast.

I tried to get off the wheel byreading management books, consulting with other leaders, and experimenting with differe...

If You Want to Learn, Start By Unlearning

Adults do not approach learning as a blank slate. We have preconceptions and prior experiences that can hinder as much as help. What we already know can get in the way of what we need to learn.To learn, we often have to unlearn first, then we can relearn.

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” – Alvin Toffler

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Each year I get a new Moleskine journal to record my ideas, reflections, prayers, and expe...