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I have observed in my in my practice of personal business coaching in the Woodlands and also in business coaching in Houston that certain concepts become the major focus of the time. Time management was big and coming into its own in the 1980’s and 1990’s. You just weren’t with it if you hadn’t taken a time management course. And, time management is still just as important today as it was back then. Today, much of what I encounter has to do with company culture and how it is either helping or hindering a company. Culture comes from the Latin word cultus, which means care. Culture at its highest level has a clear purpose as expressed in the vision and more importantly, the vision statements. These statements are more than just words. They define a purpose and a way to get there that is bigger than any one person. It gives the individual something to belong to and helps form a sense of team and cohesiveness. Culture sends a number of signals of how we belong to something. And whe...

 AN EXCERPTS From the book "Wings to Fly"   Know your position for a more rewarding life. It is discouraging to have talents and not to have them recognized or used. In “Wings To Fly” your daily lift off to soar to greater heights I explore how to position yourself for greater success and happiness. Too often, we think we know our position and are playing it, when in truth, we are experiencing unhappiness because we are playing out of position. When you are playing the right position for you and playing it well is when your talents and character come together to move yourself and others forward. When you are playing out of position in business and life it is difficult to have satisfaction and happiness. And, without either, life is not fun. It becomes like walking through a swamp. To get out of the swamp position yourself for success and happiness. Take stock of your talents and character. You can further develop your talent and character. To do that you must understa...

AN   EXCERPTS From the book "Wings to Fly" In my book,   “Wings to Fly”   I tell a shortened version of the following story. The story revolves around how we can set ourselves up for harm and failure without realizing that we are doing it. When we do, the consequences can be disastrous. Here’s the story. The owl and his friend, the little bird, were perched on a branch together. The wise owl kept looking over at the little bird who had a wing over his right eye and was crying. He kept thinking about what to say. He could see that the little bird was very upset and was crying uncontrollably. He was waiting for the little bird to tell him how come he was so upset and crying. Finally, he thought, “I will just ask him a simple question.” He turned to his friend, the little bird, and asked him; “Why are you crying?” The little bird looked up at his friend the owl and removed his wing from his right eye. The owl was shocked. He could see that the little bird h...

EXCERPTS From the book "Wings to Fly" Most people would immediately say, “Yes!” In my book,   “Wings to Fly ,”   I take a look at how to produce more good luck in your life. This is just one subject.   “Wings to Fly”   provides daily insights, one for each day of the year, ranging from relationships to productivity to self-confidence to name just a few Let’s look at luck. Seneca, the Roman philosopher said that “Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.” Yet, many people never prepare to be lucky. They are into blind luck or dumb luck. Both are truly a matter of chance. There really isn’t much difference. A person with blind luck never sees the opportunity. It just happens. A person with dumb luck does something that is stupid or dangerous and against all odds they don’t get hurt. In one way both blind and dumb luck are the same. In each case, nobody saw the luck coming. Still, luck for most of us is when preparation does meets opportunity. When p...

In “Wings To Fly” your daily lift off to soar to greater heights I discuss the power and influence of our associations.  Our associations are important because they touch, shape and mold us either for better or for worse.  Ask yourself: 1.  Who am I around? 2.  What is “Who” I am around, my associations, doing to me? 3.  What do they have me becoming? 4.  As things stand today, is that acceptable? The first question, who am I around may seem to be the easiest to answer.  You can make a list of all the people you are around.  That is a good start.  Also include in that list what you read and the TV you watch.  These are key elements of what you associate with in life. The second question, what is who I am around doing to me is a little more difficult.  Ask yourself how you are feeling and thinking after you have been with these people, watched your TV programs or after what you have read.   This second question must...

Coaching is proven to work when two factors are present: • The client is willing to learn, grow, and take action • There is a gap between where he is now and where he wants to be. That`s all is necessary for a successful coaching relationship where you can develop the right strategy, implement an action plan, and achieve your goals. Anything is possible within the coaching relationship. With a coach you can: Take More, Better and Smarter Actions The first task together is to find out exactly what you really want for yourself. Once you create objectives that are clear in with your personal values and professional vision, you are much more likely to naturally and consistently take actions to reach them. Have A Balanced Life, Which Works Well Professional success is maximized when you enjoy a sense of personal fulfillment and life balance. You need to be selfish yet responsible, and how to care out enough time so your life outside of work is exactly the way you want it to be. Make B...

One of the questions we must answer to have greater success in business and life is this: How can we change the errors in the formula for failure into the disciplines required in the formula for success? The answer is by making the future part of our current philosophy. Both success and failure involve future consequences, namely inevitable rewards or unavoidable regrets resulting from past activities. So what do we need to do daily to be on the path to success? We must develop the discipline to look down the road every day. Why are new disciplines so important? They cause us to amend our thinking to keep us on track to creating the successful future we desire. Also, disciplines tend to multiply. We start with one new successful discipline and we build momentum and self-confidence to develop others. Success is about paying attention to what we are doing each day to move us to the future we desire. Failure, on the other hand, is largely a function of neglect. And, not doing the things ...

Change, in most instances, is not easy. Why? It presents a whole new set of challenges to the people who have to learn to master it, not to mention, the other who work with them who can be directly or indirectly in the performance of their work be affected by the change. As we know when we throw a stone in the middle of a calm pond, the waves it creates will wash up on the shore in ways that we cannot see. To increase the odds of successful change we must simplify it to help those who are going to apply it. To simplify change we must make it something that people can remember and recall how to do it. When change can be remembered and recalled it can be applied. Simplification is important in another critical way. Simplification can allow us to achieve 80% of the desired results rapidly. Individuals love results. How do we do that? We focus on the 20% of all factors that are the key in allowing us to reach 80%. Moving rapidly to 80% keeps momentum and still is much better than never at...

Virtually every major change has its roots in success. In almost every case, the need for change is born of past success—of doing the right thing and doing it well. The first stage of change—The environment shifts and the right thing becomes the wrong thing. The frustrating thing is that, although the old right thing is now wrong, we still do it well. We start the second stage of change by finally recognizing that the right thing is now the wrong thing-we finally see the light. The third stage is the new right thing is new. We are usually not very good at it at first. Initially, we end up doing the new right thing quite poorly. See more at : http://www.selfimprovement-tips.com

Attitudes are affected by what we know since what we know determines he decisions we will make. Where our philosophy deals with the logical side, our attitude focuses primarily on emotional issues. What we know determines our philosophy. What we feel determines our attitude. Here is the key point to remember. In business and life it is our emotional nature that governs most of our daily conduct in our personal and business worlds. I have heard many well intentioned people say to others: “Be more logical. Don’t be so emotional.” That’s an interesting statement. Interesting because there is a strong emotion attached to it. Be more logical. All thoughts are things with some type of emotion attached to them. We must be aware of our thoughts and the emotions attached to them. Very often when we look at our emotions and the thoughts that go with them we will start to discover what is moving us forward or holding us back in our business, relationships and life. Why is this process of...

Leading change is one of the top core leadership competencies that is honored in successful businesses large and small. There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things. When we are leading change, we are leading reform. There is always a large group who profits from keeping the old order. They are quite certain in their stance. Then there are those who see the need for change and who could profit by the new order. Yet they are only lukewarm to it. How come? Most individuals do not believe in anything new until they have had actual experience with it. We are wired to resist random change for we fear the possible random consequence of being declared irrelevant and let go. We are wired, first and foremost to survive, so we hang on to what has worked in the past. The challenge in leading change is to get those who are resistant open to it. And to get those who are lukewarm, enthusiastic about i...

According to Dr.Henry Cloud in his book, Integrity, integrity is “courage to meet the demands of reality.” Yes, integrity includes other aspects including but not limited to habitual honesty through and through and having strong moral principles. Integrity is the quality you find in a good leader. A good leader will meet the demands of reality. Reality may be stormy seas. The leader will see how to navigate the ship to a safe harbor. Reality may be rapid growth. The good leader sees the danger of overextending the company financially and has plans and options to make sure the financial integrity of the company and the well being of its employees is not compromised. Leading by meeting the demands of reality allows us to lead from a position of strength, from integrity. How we lead, as Dr. Cloud points out, leaves a wake. Your wake determines three things.     The type of influence your character has.     Your degree of integrity     Your a...