Author: The Strategic Coach Team
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Tip Of The Week: On Nostalgia And The Pain Of The Past
Nostalgia isn’t of much use to entrepreneurs. In fact, that second syllable of the word is telling, because it means pain (as in “neuralgia”). So if something from your past is giving you pain, choose to leave it there and not bring it into your future. You probably never want to hear that bureaucratic excuse…
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Quotable Coach: Where Changemakers Come From
Many of the entrepreneurs in the Strategic Coach Program take the extra time, money, and abilities they’ve created in the Program and reinvest it into their community or in global causes that are important to them. Instead of standing by and thinking “someone should do something,” they have the contentment of knowing they’re someone who…
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You Put The “Great” In Grateful
The holiday season can be fun, but it can also be busy, emotional, and stressful. In this video, Shannon Waller shares a strategy for shifting your focus anywhere, anytime to a mindset of gratitude—where you can really enjoy what’s great about what you’ve got. As Dan says, “What you appreciate appreciates.” [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rgim0ANvv4[/embedyt] [contentblock id=egtp-ebook]
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Tip Of The Week: Why You Should Give Up The Past
Why should you give up the past? Because it’s already gone. As playwright Tony Kushner said, “The world only spins forward.” Since the future is coming anyway, embrace it, run with it, and decide to create something huge and wonderful there. If something specific in the past was important, distil what was important about that…
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Quotable Coach: Why Are You Here?
“Why am I here? What’s it all about?” People often say these things with a laugh, like these questions are naïve or trite. But deep down, we all still want to know the answer, don’t we? Outside facts can change, and gurus can disappoint, so it’s really up to us to simply declare why we’re…
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Learn The “Stuff-to-Energy” Transfer Technique
There are two ways to experience everything in life: as stuff or as energy. “Stuff” is everything that drains you, and “energy” is everything that fills you with enthusiasm and excitement. Both stuff and energy come in three forms: things, people, and thoughts. Things Certain activities in your life involve things—objects and other tangible details…
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Tip Of The Week: 3 Ways To Create Value For Other People
In a recent episode of “The Apprentice UK,” the candidates were asked to design a piece of clothing, and one team had the bright idea of producing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “Buy This T-shirt.” Now, any real businessperson will immediately see what’s wrong with this picture: The slogan is focused entirely on the…
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Quotable Coach: How To Quit Envy
Comparing yourself to other people is inevitable, and can be a source of useful insights. When it leads to envy, though, it’s useless. Envy is debilitating and demoralizing, and it gives you a scarcity view of the world, where other people’s gain can only be seen as a loss for you. If you ever find…
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Make Everything More Valuable With Creative Gratitude
During the holiday season the idea of gratitude is ever-present. It’s easy to feel like it’s become a bit of a cliche. But there’s actually real value in taking time to appreciate all the good things in our lives. In fact, this active appreciation is so useful, productive, and joyous that we here at Strategic…
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Tip Of The Week: An Easy Way To Give Your Team What It Really Wants
We know that people respond to recognition at work as much as, or even more than, to financial rewards. Although we go to work because we get paid, work is also the place where we can get some of the biggest reinforcement and appreciation for who we are. That’s why Unique Ability® is such a…