Coaching and Inspiration

I’m going to deviate a little from my normal type content today to comment on this morning’s news out of Pakistan regarding the assassination of Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. In my opinion it’s always a sad day when a fighter and supporter of Democracy is assassinated. It does not matter on what side of [...]

In my last blog, I wrote about the Ten Basic Rules For Successful Goal Setting. For the next 10 days or so I’d like to take a few minutes to discuss each rule separately. Let’s get started.
Every goal, big or small, has to be written down.
This first step is so important yet people always fail [...]

Isn’t it amazing how fast 2007 has gone? Here we are at the end of another year. Did you accomplish all your goals for the year? Did you do what you set out to do 12 months ago? I find it interesting that we always use the holiday season as a benchmark for how we’re [...]

My son Richie recently reminded me of an incident that happened when he was a Cub Scout. We were getting ready to participate in his, and my, first Pinewood Derby race. We worked for several nights in February in our cold garage in Georgia under a fluorescent light that hung from the ceiling by chains [...]

I’ve been really overwhelmed recently with the holidays approaching and all that I’m trying to do for my family, myself and my business. So much so that I was starting to neglect my children and some of the responsibilities of my household, things I thought I was trying to work on. It got to the [...]

I was talking with a friend of mine recently and we were talking about an old saying that goes like this: "Every cart has 2 wheels." We were actually discussing God’s work and how it has 2 wheels - prayer and work. You can pray all you want but if you don’t do the work [...]

While listening to a program recently, the author talked about ways to get more done in less time. I found his suggestions simple and worthy of sharing.
The first thing he suggests is to take a sheet of paper and draw a line down the center making two columns on the sheet. On the top left [...]

I talk to a lot of people in my coaching practice and one thing I hear quiet often is how people invested in themselves when they first got started in their careers. Then, as things progressed and they got closer to their goals and got what they thought they wanted, they stopped educating themselves. That, [...]

When I first started in the mortgage business I was working for a small broker that was in the process of becoming a licensed lender. During the growth process the gentleman I was working for had developed some contests to get everyone motivated. I remember one of those contests was set around hitting a certain [...]

I was talking to a good friend of mine today who’s been in this business for a long time and very successful at it. He said something to me that really made me think. He said, "Every day I still have a job is one day closer to the recovery of our industry." I thought [...]