Author: The Strategic Coach Team
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Four Tips for Great Free Days
1. Schedule your Free Days in advance. Book these days ahead of time—or, better yet, delegate that to an assistant—and treat these days as non-negotiable. There’s always some reason not to go, yet the reasons never seem as important in retrospect. 2. Do what you want to do. If you’re doing chores and clean-ups, it’s…
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Laws Of Lifetime Growth: Make Enjoyment > Effort
Enjoyment is essential for lifetime growth. Some people believe that success has to be hard earned to be real. They are highly suspicious of any gains that come as a result of enjoyment. If they earn rewards this way inadvertently, they feel guilty. If others appear to be profiting from enjoyment, they question those people’s…
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Tip Of The Week: Take A Break From “Eustress”
You’ve heard of distress, but psychologists warn that we’re also worn out by “eustress”—extended periods of being “up” and “on.” If you want to stay healthy, creative, and productive, you have to give your brain and body regular breaks from every kind of stress. Plan some Free Days—even just one!—when you can just be, with…
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Quotable Coach: Happiness Is A Choice
Most people think happiness is a by-product of their circumstances, beyond their control, but truly happy people don’t react to the world; they create it with a mindset that automatically seeks out the most positive interpretations, opportunities, and experiences. Moment to moment, the choice is always yours: Which would you rather experience?
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Abundance Or Scarcity: Where Would You Rather Live?
This sketchnote is based on a recent 10x Talk podcast with Dan Sullivan and Joe Polish called “The Abundance Neighborhood.”
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Tip Of The Week: Don’t Bring Your Briefcase To The Beach
Your brain is a smart rat and will find that cheese of distraction no matter where you hide it. The only—only—way to rejuvenate your mind is to completely take away the possibility of work-related thoughts and activities for a pre-determined, non-negotiable time.
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Quotable Coach: The Difference Between A Negative And Positive Experience
Whether an experience is negative or positive is really a factor of what you do with it. Transform every situation into a lesson for the future, and you’ll never regret anything in your past—in fact, you’ll be grateful for it. Entrepreneurial success springs from a vision of how something could be faster, cheaper, easier, or…
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Tip Of The Week: How To Deal With Negative Experiences
Complaining, venting, and worrying might feel like action, but they distract you from the productive, enjoyable, and profitable things you could be doing instead. The next time you find yourself in a negative frame of mind, flip it to the positive by asking, “What am I grateful for? What’s the lesson to learn here? What…
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Quotable Coach: Take Risks
The first step to creating a bigger and better future is to establish a powerful vision of what’s possible. As you get better at this, something strange happens: “Safe” becomes “unsafe” because you recognize that every opportunity for you to learn, improve, and grow exists out in the future. Trying to defend old ground only…
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Tip Of The Week: How To Choose Among Overwhelming Opportunities
There are so many things you can do, so many things you could do—how do you choose among these opportunities? By setting criteria! Having trouble deciding what your criteria are? Here’s great place to start: Which of your activities and relationships are the most productive and profitable? Your answer to that question gives you a template for choosing where to invest your time and get…