How I’m rewarding long-term thinkers and serious coaches (time-sensitive)
The longer I'm in the coaching world, the more I realize that I only want to work with long-term thinkers. There are too many flakes in the online space - people who want to get rich quick without rolling up their sleeves to work for it. Or they expect to try...
Truth telling
When I work with a client, or write to my Secret Coach Club subscribers, I tell it like it is. My clients and subscribers aren't looking for a best buddy who will tell them only what they want to hear - they're paying me to help them grow their businesses … and...
This is something I’ve never done before …
I've been publishing my print newsletter, Secret Coach Club, since March 2017. In those 50+ months, I've shared my best strategies and advice for coaches inside those pages - but this week I'm doing something I've never done with SCC before: First, I'm starting to do...
You can do this in a “cloffice”
Apparently it's becoming popular these days for people to convert their closets into small home offices. Or a "cloffice" (closet + office) When I first heard of the trend, I was skeptical … We just finished a new office at the house for me, and despite being a...
If I had to start all over
If I had to start my coaching business from scratch, without knowing a single soul or having a penny to my name, I know how i'd do it: I'd use the "3 Pillars" strategy. In the last seven years I've used this strategy, with some experimentation and tweaks, and will...
(Podcast): Incurable Entrepreneurs and the Art of Following Through with Heather Thorkelson!
Heather Thorkelson stopped by the podcast today, and in this episode you'll hear: Why Heather chose entrepreneurship over the matrix of the corporate world, and what she means when she says that she has “No Plan B”The struggles of following through that she...
Shower thoughts about content
I had a thought that popped into my brain while in the shower one day: Consume too much content, and you'll never be content … It seemed clever at the time, using the word "content" for two different meanings, but it's probably not as brilliant as I first thought....
As he slumped to the floor, this is what he was thinking about …
A LinkedIn post by Jonathan Frostick went viral last month. In it, the program manager for HSBC told the story of having a heart attack on a Sunday afternoon while preparing for his upcoming workweek. As he fell to the floor, the first thought that went through his...
I’ll never be the Jenga world champion :/
A few weeks ago I played Jenga for the first time in many years. I'm not a big fan of the game. I prefer ones without sudden loud sounds (that could be why I was never a big "Operation" guy either) Any hopes of becoming the Jenga world champion were dashed that night,...
A big lesson from Michael Jordan
Last week I picked up Tim Grover's excellent new book, "Winning: The Unforgiving Race To Greatness". (I highly recommend it - and also his previous book "Relentless") Grover has trained some of the greatest athletes on the planet, including Michael Jordan and Kobe...