A Better Future for You

Genuine enthusiasm...a real feeling of accomplishment...a satisfying sense of progress and fun. That's what waits for you beyond the stress of success. How can you have this and feel calm and more confident? Easy! Engage in a simple practice that adds balance to your work and life. Forget about putting it on your to-do list. Instead playfully practice doing something that works or stop doing something that doesn't work. You'll find yourself effortlessly tweaking your practice so it works well for you.

Busy entrepreneurs, executives and professionals are more effective when

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Wealth of Wisdom 

Highly successfully people routinely practice failing forward. They decide on the best action, take it, and view failure as feedback. Instead of making failure personal, they ask a valuable question. What did I/we learn from what didn't work? Research tells us that geniuses share a similar point of view. When Thomas Edison was asked about his 101 failed attempts at getting the light bulb to work, he replied that he did not consider those unsuccessful attempts failures. From his perspective he had found 101 ways a light bulb didn't work.

No Failure...Only Lessons Learned

What difference would this shift in thinking make if you applied it right now to what you're working on in your business, leadership or life?

Make Time Work for You

Phillip Zimbardo and Phillip Boyd - authors of The Time Paradox - invite us to improve our relationship with time and change our lives. In a series of 3 paradoxes - "that shape our lives and our destinies" - they reveal that time can work for us rather than against us. This offers us opportunities to consciously choose the role that time plays in our professional success and personal happiness.

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Lessons Learned on the Way to Machu Picchu  

Reaching our milestones does not give us the innate capacity to be comfortable at higher business and professional elevations. We need time to adjust and adapt to the new altitude. A trip to Peru - going from sea level to 12,000 feet in a day - taught me the value of taking time to acclimate to altitude. The body knows what the mind thinks it can ignore. That's why when we are climbing the heights to success, we need oxygen.

For busy entrepreneurs, executives and professionals oxygen is the support of people,  systems and resources, as well as guidance on the sometimes rocky and steep path to success. This keeps us from becoming disoriented, exhausted and disheartened as we climb to the next peak. Instructions for flying at altitude make this clear. "If the oxygen masks drop, put your mask on first." The reason is simple. Too many seconds without oxygen literally clouds our thinking - compromising our ability to know that we are making bad decisions. Having the help we need allows us to enjoy the thrill of reaching new heights in business, leadership and our lives.

Prepare to Soar               Peruvian Andes

• How much time do you need to acclimate to the higher ground you've reached?
• Breathe...you've arrived!
  
• What support do you need to reach the next business and professional altitude you seek?

Feel Out of Control?  

Brain scientist Dr. John Medina tells us that when we can't control constant negative stress or its frequency, our experience of being out of control and trapped destroys our brain cells.

Thinking and feeling that 'there is no way out' damages our cognition - our ability to process information, problem solve, and know. The more we experience  negative stress as an endless loop, the less productive we are. No wonder we find ourselves unavailable for what we say matters most to us.

Are you suffering from any of these 'on-the-verge' signs?

• You feel scattered and unable to concentrate?
• You forget things easily?
• You never seems to be able to get anywhere on time?
• You no longer have the energy to do the things you love to do because they just feel lke more items on your to-do list?
• You use your vacations, holidays and weekends "to catch up."
• Your breathing is shallow.
• You no longer think there's a better way to deal with the constant overload that keeps you in overdrive.

Good News

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