By now, you may or may not realize much of your reality is shaped by the stories you tell yourself. In fact, your identity is heavily influenced by the collection of stories that you’ve told yourself or that you’ve accepted as truth throughout your life. Those stories can help you, but they can also hurt…
Nobody Thinks Their Business Is Going to Be Wiped Out (Until It’s Too Late) The year was 2008 and everything was going well… Until one day, it wasn’t. I was recently speaking with Tracy Matthews, the Chief Visionary Officer of Flourish and Thrive Academy, who told me the story of her first highly-successful jewelry business….
Nobody want’s to feel like someone is keeping score of their mistakes, and being reminding of our mistakes can trigger us to feel terrible. While it may feel like the person we are with walks around with a mental notebook filled with our transgressions, there is more to the story and there are effective ways…
All too often, we look at people who are more successful than we are in some area of life and we feel like they have something we don’t. Some talent, gift or blessing… And what we don’t see gives us an excuse not to start or to push ahead, but that excuse carries with it…
Let me tell you a story about limiting beliefs… I recently received a call from a business friend facing a terrible situation. We’ll call him “Nick” and I’ll alter some details to respect his privacy. Nick was in a dead-end job making about $15/hour, which I knew was WAY below his potential. Nick is an…
In the next few minutes, you’re going to discover why you end up feeling stuck, why you don’t have what you want in your life and what you can do about it. “It works for all these other people, but it just doesn’t work for me.” I told myself after my first major product launch….