Author: The Strategic Coach Team
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Get Into Action With These Five “80% Principles”
At Strategic Coach, we don’t aim for 100%—we aim for 80%. Why do we do this? 1. There’s no such thing as 100% because we learn and grow on the first attempt, which means our “ideal” result is always changing. 2. Expecting perfection leads to paralysis, not action. 3. There’s room for great teamwork when…
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Tip Of The Week: Take Charge Of Your Habits
The future exists here and now in the form of the actions you take, moment to moment. If your actions aren’t consistent with your “big picture” vision, you undermine yourself and confuse others. Line up a series of small wins, though, and they’ll add up to a big result.
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Quotable Coach: Great Aim And Determination
You’re going to put in the time anyway, so why not play a big game? People find it much easier to move forward on the “what” and “how” when they understand the “why.”
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Have A Winning New Year?
Okay, it’s the new year, and you have a ton of things you want to achieve. We love that. The thing is, people can’t help but measure their achievements against perfection, and that throws them into what we call “The Gap”: the permanent distance between the ideal and the actual. Yeah, it’s permanent. As in not…
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Tip Of The Week: Why Be Specific About Your Goals
Our simple motto for entrepreneurial success is, “Make it up, make it real, make it recur.” The moment you make up a big vision of what you’d like to achieve, your mind goes to work on identifying the relationships, capabilities, and opportunities that will make it happen. And when you communicate that vision in terms…
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Happy Holiday From Strategic Coach!
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Our contribution is now working in Malawi!
In June 2013, Strategic Coach hosted a Self-Managing Company event in Chicago to help raise money for The Magic Future Foundation. Proceeds benefitted the non-profit organization buildOn to help build schools in Mali and Malawi. This special one-day workshop not only motivated 110 entrepreneurs to transform their businesses into Self-Managing Companies, it raised $100,000 to help…
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The Busyness Lie
We invited Strategic Coach participant Stephanie Holmes-Winton—a prodigious blogger on financial matters, including the imperative nature of cash flow—to write a guest post for us. Stephanie is a Halifax-based financial services educator and speaker who works with advisors to help them find the money their clients need to fund their financial plans. She is the author…
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It Pays To Be You
In the spirit of Global Entrepreneurship Week, we asked Strategic Coach clients to share their secrets to success. The final post in the series is written by Lisa Cini, founder and CEO of Mosaic Design Studio in Columbus, Ohio. I used to spend a lot of time being frustrated that other people couldn’t do what…
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You’re surrounded by mentors. Why not ask, learn, and grow?
In the spirit of Global Entrepreneurship Week, we asked Strategic Coach clients to share their secrets to success. The fourth in the series is written by Gary Klaben, President of Coyle Financial Counsel, Inc. in Glenview, Illinois. Gary also coaches workshops for Strategic Coach in Chicago. A lot of people hate asking for help. Yet…