Author: The Strategic Coach Team
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Quotable Coach: Consumption Is Not Creativity
It’s nice to have nice things and rich experiences — we’re not against that. Just don’t mistake them for an identity. The things that really distinguish you from the rest of the world came factory-installed and will always lead to your most significant and rewarding achievements.
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Tip Of The Week: The Solution To Irritability
The “low battery” warning on our smartphones is pretty obvious, but your brain gives you some pretty clear signals too — like irritability, fogginess, and a stubborn refusal to offer up any good ideas. Even if your inside voice shouts at you for being lazy, just stop when you’re feeling tired. Get up, go for…
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Quotable Coach: How To Get Team Members To Step Up For You
It’s been proven time and again that team members respond to appreciation and opportunities much more than to financial rewards. And providing someone with a paycheck isn’t carte blanche to treat them any old way you like. When you regard your team members as unique, talented partners — guess what! That’s how they’ll show up…
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Virtual Team Building Comes Into Its Own
We invited Adrienne Duffy, a long-time Strategic Coach associate coach and successful entrepreneur, to guest blog for us. Adrienne has a passion for helping others to grow, which shows up in her business, Big Futures Inc., where she helps entrepreneurs and their teams work together to grow their revenue exponentially. Since 1995, she has coached…
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Tip Of The Week: How To Access Other People’s Creativity
When you articulate your vision of how things could be bigger and better than they are now, then share that vision with the right people, you heighten and engage their emotions, their focus, and their commitment. You’re letting them know how to win the game you’re playing together — which is very important information! How…
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Quotable Coach: What You Need To Keep Getting Better
Trying to keep things the same leads to defensiveness, depletion, and dangerous blind-spots. But if you’re the one who initiates the change, who’s always looking for new ways to learn, grow, and create, you’ll be adept at reinventing yourself and finding the opportunities in any situation that arises.
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Tip Of The Week: How To Stay Relevant In Your Market
As the mathematician Gödel said, you can’t truly understand a system from within it. Likewise, if you want to create innovations and breakthroughs in your business, industry, or market, you need to step back from your day-to-day activities. Give yourself the mental space to imagine possibilities without worrying about immediate application, to question your worldview…
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Quotable Coach: What Happens When You Put Off Making A Decision
Here’s Dan’s formula for a mess: M = O – C, or “A Mess is an Obligation without a Commitment.” Keep that in mind as you attack your pile of unfinished projects. For each one, ask yourself, “Am I honestly ever going to do this?” If not, give it to someone who can take care…
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Tip Of The Week: An Easy Way To Find Inspiration
You never know where a burst of inspiration is going to come from, but it’s probably not from staring at a screen, a piece of paper, or the phone. If you’re running on fumes, take a quick break to fill up your creative and energetic fuel tanks. A random conversation, a change of scenery, or…
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Quotable Coach: Anticipation Of A Difficult Situation
There are two types of suffering: short suffering and long suffering. The choice is yours. There are no benefits to procrastination.