“There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” Kenneth H. Blanchard, Leadership Author Mountaineer W.H. Murray summed up the importance of commitment in his account of the 1950 Scottish Himalayan Expedition, in The…

Do You Have A Framework For Creating Real, Lasting Success — With Whatever You Have To Work With? “Structure influences behaviour.” Peter Senge The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization Our lives, work and relationships are underlain and influenced by (usually) unseen guiding systems and structures. These powerful structures arise from…

Experience is not what happens to you; experience is what you do with what happens to you. —Aldous Huxley When adversity strikes, before you feel or act on it, you interpret it. You try to explain it: Why did this happen? Where did it come from? Who’s responsible?  But Paul Stoltz, author of The Adversity Quotient, says the origin of the…

Becoming Resilient In Challenging Times We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails. —Cora L. V. Hatch, 1859  Resilient people rise above adversity. They bend with the storm, rebound from setbacks, recover quickly from difficult conditions. They see failure as feedback—a learning experience, and use it to chart a new course toward their goal—independent of circumstances…

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails. —Cora L. V. Hatch, 1859 Resilient People Rise Above Adversity  They bend with the storm, rebound from setbacks, recover quickly from difficult conditions. They see failure as feedback—a learning experience, and use it to chart a new course toward their goal—independent of circumstances and obstacles. Faced…

If Money Was No Object, What Would You Do? Many of the clients I work with have trouble, at first, identifying what they most want to do in life, work, relationships… Or what they want to create—to bring into being. So they focus on things they might want, or should want, or maybe want, and…

In the midst of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.— Albert Camus Many folks find today’s world a complex, complicated, and confusing challenge. Strange weather and climate. Strange politics. Disruptive technology. Things are changing faster than people can cope. Impossible to navigate successfully. Many cannot take charge of their goals and…

I often get asked what blog posts get the most reads, and feedback from readers.  Checking my summaries for last year, I found a nice blend of Life Design posts about simplicity, success and emotional mastery.  So, here’s the short list of the top 5 for 2019. Enjoy!  Top 5 Posts of 2019 1. Positive…

How Life Design Makes The Complicated Simple “Making the simple complicated is commonplace;  making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creative.”  — Charles Mingus When potential personal life coaching clients first approach me, most come with a mix of problems, issues and vaguely conceived results.  Generally, they seek help getting rid of the things they don’t like…

How Do I Create Successful New Years Resolutions? “Quitting smoking is easy!” quipped Ken. “I’ve done it hundreds of times.” Ken made resolutions, but they rarely produced lasting results. Like many of us do. We resolve to change, take action, but when things get in the way and/or motivation fades, we drift back into comfortable…

If at first you don’t succeed / Try, try again. — William Edward Hickson “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” — Samuel Beckett Do you ever put off today what you could do tomorrow, and then do the same thing the next day? And the next? We all do, more…