Stop treating people how you want to be treated. I have one hobby: reading. I don’t fish, golf or collect Star Wars figurines. I read lots of books. That’s it. Because of this diversion, I’ve noticed over the years that I frequently give others a gift that I would...
Simple Tactics for Thriving During Uncertainty Over the last 17 years, I’ve seen hundreds of “mini” crisis and a few big ones (2008/2009 ring a bell?). I get a little shaken up by all of them - just like you do. However, as leaders, we’ve got a responsibility to help...
Why Resolutions Fail Ever heard of The Focus Workshop? If you were lucky (and lived in central Indiana in 2007) then you could have been one of the 100-plus attendees at my initial goal-setting program: The Focus Workshop. It was a roughly four-hour event that covered...
The Courage to Quit "Andrew Luck is retiring!" came a scream from the living room. I was sitting on the back porch of a friend’s house with a handful of neighbors, when Mathew, my buddy’s 15-year-old sports-obsessed son broke the news. "It’s got to be a joke," we all...
What does “success” mean anyway? For thousands of years, people have been striving to feel successful. For the last 100 or so, the definition has included – “out-achieve everyone else.”
It’s been said many times before by people much smarter than I, everything you want to do in your life has already been done by someone else.
Not long ago, I was working with a client, let’s call her Sue. While very high achieving in her own right, she was also prone to procrastination. And maybe you’re someone who is asking “Why do I procrastinate?” too.
Raise your hand if you are interested in starting a small business because you love accounting. Unless you are starting up a small CPA practice, I’ll assume that you kept your hand down.
Over the years, I’ve shared the lessons and concepts I’ve learned with hundreds of thousands of professionals. I’ve turned a handful of them into mantras that can be repeated daily to keep you moving in a positive direction.
At some point in time, the negative office environment sort of became accepted as the norm. Most likely, you’ve witnessed this firsthand and it forced you to take a long, hard look at your future with that company.
Achiever's Compass Coaching Series is designed to bring awareness and generate some momentum in the right direction.