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JumpStart – Adapting

Podcast The word “adapt” is defined, “To adjust or modify fittingly.” That means that when stuff goes sideways you simply do what you can to: Not make it worse Pull the best out of it In this JumpStart, I share with you how I recently had the opportunity to adapt and how you might learn […]

JumpStart – Opposite Day

Podcast After talking about Winnie the Pooh in yesterday’s JumpStart, I thought about a Calvin and Hobbs strip where the two of them are arguing. When Calvin finally gets his stuffed tiger friend to agree to something, Hobbs reneges saying, “Sorry, today’s opposite day.” “Opposite Day” — don’t you love it? What if for one […]

JumpStart – Wisdom of Pogo

Podcast Back when I was a kid, there was much less to keep us entertained so we valued the entertainment we got. Like, the comics!! Every day my little hands would dig through the stack of newspaper sections to find the comics and would lose myself in Blondie, Hagar the Horrible, BC, The Wizard of […]

JumpStart – The Tao of Pooh

Podcast Who doesn’t love the wisdom of Winnie The Pooh, right? “Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie, A fly can’t bird but a bird can fly. Ask me a question and I will reply: Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie.” In “The Tao of Pooh” the author Benjamin Hoff explains Taoism through the loveable characters from the Winnie the […]

JumpStart – Before You Compose a Response

Podcast Have you noticed just how wrong some conventional wisdom can be? For example, the idea of “don’t just sit there, do something!” has caused lots of people problems because often hyperactivity is counterproductive. The way I like to think of it is,  “Before you compose a response, compose yourself.” Whenever we’re upset, our first […]

JumpStart – Stressed Out in Chillsville

Podcast As you know, I’ve been gone for a couple of weeks and it’s good to be back with you again. So, you’ve heard the analogy of the frog in the water, right? If you turn up the heat underneath the water slowly, the frog will boil to death. However, if you throw a frog […]

JumpStart – Enrage and Engage

Podcast In a normal year, there is an average of 150 in-flight incidents involving unruly passengers on airplanes. But in just the last 4 months, there have been…get this: 1,300 such incidents and they’re increasing daily to the point that American Airlines has issued panic buttons to many flight attendants. What’s causing this rise in […]

JumpStart – Phrases to release

Podcast Over the last month or so I’ve been watching the words that pop up in my mind as I’m approaching any new task from learning a new software program to playing pickleball. And these phrases are so automatic that I don’t realize that They are limiting my performance These words are diminishing my joy […]

Jumpstart – Coaching

Podcast As you may know, I’m addicted to the TV show Ted Lasso starring Jason Sudekis. Well, recently I’ve gotten hooked on Friday Night Lights  starring Kyle Chandler. One is a show about British football (soccer) and the other is about American football–but I’m not a sports fan, so how can these shows keep me […]

JumpStart – The Frigate vs. The Seagull

Podcast This morning as I sat out on the bay having my coffee I watched the two preeminent birds in Key Largo. The seagull and the frigate. The frigate barely moves its wings and rarely ever cries out. The seagull constantly flaps it’s comparatively short wings and squawks incessantly. The frigate rides the currents of […]