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Shift Happens (WK 8 – Let It Go!)
Perhaps Elsa in Disney’s classic learned a secret worth applying in your business when she declared “Let it go, let it go!” What if the things you’ve been holding onto are the very things holding you back from your next level of elevated thinking and performance? YOU are a very complex being. More than just a body, […]
Continue readingShift Happens (Wk 7 – CREATING CORE VALUE CULTURE)
The greatest and most engaging companies are those that understand the value of creating core value culture. What makes some people achieve success over and over again while others seem to struggle through season after season wondering why their “break” has failed to come? Today we are going to look at what I believe to be […]
Continue readingShift Happens (Wk 6 – WHY SHIfT?)
There will come a day in every entrepreneur’s life or business where they entertain the option to quit and take the path of least resistance. It is in those most difficult times, those great leaders dig deep, make a shift, and remember WHY they started their journey in the first place. Perhaps one of the […]
Continue readingShift Happens (Wk 5 – Your History Leaves Clues)
When we look at every great leader throughout history, we see the stories of tragedy, transition, tenacity and triumph. Did you know that your history leaves clues to your destiny? The circumstances, life events, failures, and set backs can become a set UP for your greatest victories and finest hours. Opposition and storms of life […]
Continue readingShift Happens (Wk 4 – Yes You Can!)
Yes, You CAN! At the age of 8, Bethany Hamilton entered her first surfing competition, where she won both the short and long board divisions. She was a natural born surfer with a love for competition. On October 31, 2003, Bethany was attacked by a 14-foot tiger shark while surfing off Kauai’s North Shore. Bethany recalls, “It came, literally, out of the blue. I had no […]
Continue readingShift Happens (Wk 3 – Fail Forward)
“Greatness is not the absence of failure, but the wisdom to know how to USE failure to your advantage!” At the age of 29, Diana Nyad dreamed of being the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a cage and in the midst of shark infested waters. Why would someone jump into shark infested waters […]
Continue readingShift Happens (Wk 2 – Reload)
“Warriors don’t retreat….they reload!” In 1985, Steve Jobs was fired from the company he founded. Apple was suffering financially under the weight of bloated product offerings and being eaten alive by the press as if Apple was already lying in a satin-lined casket. Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy. Then, SHIfT happened. Steve Jobs returned to the company in July of 1997, and […]
Continue readingSHIfT Happens (Wk 1 – Reset)
It’s been decades since Albert Einstein said, “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” And yet, those words still hold true today for the life and quest of great entrepreneurs. Bottom line, challenges WILL come your way and the familiar phrase “@#%& Happens” will, no doubt, hit you at some point in your journey. The secret behind GREAT […]
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