[ New Distinctions for Entrepreneurs – Part 12 of 12 ] To ‘make’ something is to bring it into form of your own accord. It is to be the full cause for a thing’s existence. When we use the word ‘create’ however, there is a […]
Read More[ New Distinctions for Entrepreneurs – Part 1 of 12 ] The typical orientation when ‘pitching’ your business is to impress your audience so that they will want what you have. What if instead of pitching to impress, you pitched to impact? What if the […]
Read MoreWe are presumed to agree that a fulfilling life comes through strenuous effort. What if this isn’t true? Or at least, what if having to ‘compete’ and ‘struggle’ is not the only path to fulfillment? What if there is another way? A way that is […]
Read MoreThe dominant paradigm for success is that of a quantitative measure. Inculcated with this worldview by an industrialized education system, we unconsciously measure success by ‘how much’ is achieved. We don’t consider this is only one way to measure success. Without even realising it, we […]
Read MoreShall we reconsider ‘free speech’? One of the leading concepts of my life and work can be summed up in the word ‘abracadabra’, which etymologically is an Aramaic word meaning ‘I create as I speak’. From almost two decades of experience in the use of […]
Read MoreLast week I was sat in front of a tall chain link fence at a wolf sanctuary. Part of a group spending the afternoon there, we had been given time to be alone in silence with the wolves. I was just sitting there in the […]
Read MoreMy friend James Tripp pointed out to me that a lot of public speakers speak with what he calls ‘backfilled content’. What he means by this is that some people first get the idea that they would like to be a ‘speaker’ and they then […]
Read MoreThe most powerful coaching I have ever participated in has come as a result of letting go completely and allowing love to carry me. Water is flowing against my chest, bubbling up under my chin and around my neck, making sound as it empties over […]
Read MoreIt struck me once that everything comes from nothing. We don’t typically think of it this way though. We consider things to have come from things that preceded them. Apples come from trees, kids come from parents, etc. What struck me though is that in […]
Read MoreWhat if all the questions we ask – all the things we say and do in coaching – are a superficial dance, the impact of which is minute at best? What if the conversation we think we are having is just ripples on an ocean? […]
Read MoreLast year, a few months after finishing a coaching program, one of my clients emailed me saying: “Hi John, It’s incredible how much more productive I’m being since we stopped the coaching. I’m not sure what it is, but I’m on fire!” Sitting upright on […]
Read More“You’re in your head.” If there’s a single phrase I’m sick of hearing, and yet always curious as to when I’ll hear it next, it’s this one. In fact, I heard it this past weekend when I was speaking with Mel Carnegie, a woman I […]
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