From my cold, dead hands?
From Sir Richard Branson: ===== "People tend to think of entrepreneurs as lone heroes, but this isn’t how it works in real life. Many live up to their reputation as risk-takers and some remain outsiders, but despite this outlier status, entrepreneurs need support to...
Giggity giggity goo
The word "gig" means different things to different people. When some hear it, they think of a DJ'ing or singing gig. Quagmire from "Family Guy" pops into the minds of others ("Giggity") But it's becoming known for something else nowadays: Freelance gigs for online...
A conveyor belt full of chocolates
There's a classic episode of "I Love Lucy" that reminds me of the coaching world. In that episode, Lucy and her friend Ethel get jobs wrapping chocolates in a factory and are warned by their supervisor that if they miss wrapping even one piece they'll be fired. When...
Roger Bannister, Nolan Ryan, and you
Back in 1954, Roger Bannister was the first person to run a mile in under four minutes. Runners tried to run a sub-four minute mile for many years before Bannister finally accomplished it, but they had no luck. Word was that the milestone was "impossible". You might...
When you’re getting paid with meatballs
In "The Wedding Singer", Robbie Hart (played by Adam Sandler) gives singing lessons to an elderly student. Unfortunately, she pays him not with cold, hard cash but with meatballs instead. Before he can escape her house, she plops a few sloppy ones in his hands and...
Lessons from Bond (and Gary) Halbert
Since copywriting is a great skill for coaches to have, I've spent a lot of time studying it over the years. My favourite copywriter is the late, great "Prince of Print", Gary Halbert. I enjoy his stuff so much that I killed a small forest printing up 1200 pages of...
The Coca-Cola of Coaching?
One of my favourite stories in "Think and Grow Rich" is about an “enchanted kettle”. Napoleon Hill wrote about a young drug clerk named Asa Candler who spent his life savings ($500) buying an old-fashioned kettle, a wooden paddle, and a secret formula written on a...
The wall
Let's talk about walls. I don't mean the one that Donald Trump wants to build, but instead your social media wall. To cut through all the noise in the online space, you need to consistently put your message out there. When I say "message", I mean your message - not...
Moving the ball down the field
I often think of coaching success in sports terms. Successful coaches play offense (they take productive action) more than they play defense (being reactionary and easily distracted). They're a lot like quarterbacks in football - moving the ball down the field and...
A not-so-crazy way to spend one hour today
There are some crazy ways you could spend an hour. I asked my friends on Facebook for ideas, and heard back about some of their personal experiences, including: Filming great white sharks 25 feet underwater off the coast of South Africa (Chris Hayward) Jumping out of...