What is procrastination? It means to put off, delay, or defer doing something. How is procrastination a barrier to success? To simplify, putting off tasks …
Procrastination – A Barrier to Success
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The Challenge: Acknowledging Progress and Success
How many people do you know that forget to acknowledge their own progress and success? It is ironic then when people do achieve something so …
The Challenge: Accountability
When setting goals and planning action steps it often helps to have an accountability partner. Having an accountability partner means you committed to someone else. …
The Challenge: Shift from Over-committing to Choosing
Recently several different clients have faced a similar challenge: over-committing. How does this happen? When people are asked to do something, sometimes they have a …
The Challenge: Shift from Limiting to Creating Possibilities
When you ask people what their biggest barrier to success is, how often will they respond with, “me”? What is it that has us limiting …
The Challenge: Shift from Aggressive to Assertive
An aggressive communicator easily expresses their opinion. It is natural for aggressive communicators to advocate for their own ideas. An aggressive communicator easily expresses their …
The Challenge: Shift from Passive to Assertive
A passive communicator is someone who waits for others to speak first. Often a passive communicator will refrain from saying anything and then, perhaps later, …
The Challenge: Shift from a Focus on Don’t Want to Do Want
Imagine going to a travel agent and asking them to book a vacation. When the travel agent asks where to and the answer is a …
The Challenge: Shift from Externally Motivated to Internally Motivated
When someone is externally motivated it means their actions serve what someone else wants or they are avoiding a consequence. External motivation gets a short …
The Challenge: Shift from Reactive to Proactive
Sometimes, when coaching, a client is reacting to circumstances instead of planning intentionally. As a coach, part of the process expertise learned in coaching certification …