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“Jon’s straightforward and uncomplicated style was exactly what I needed to build clarity. I had a big project that I had been working on for weeks and was making very little progress. Jon was able to get me to see the essentials – WHAT, WHY . . . then HOW. Thanks to him, I was able to complete the ...
“Jon really helps you put things into perspective. He sets a great example and provides motivational and personal development tools to help you stay focused. His posts always seem to come at the right time and resonate on a personal level. Working together in a small group really helped me identify ...
I had the great opportunity to participate in a Catalyst Igniter Cohort under Jon Giganti’s leadership. In my corporate career of over 15 years I’ve attended all types of training and personal development courses and had the opportunity to work with some great mentors and coaches, but there is somet...
“Participating with Jon Giganti in his group coaching was a phenomenal experience. Under Jon’s leadership he was able to bring the group together to share best practices in time management, career growth planning and general life lessons for handling the stresses and challenges we face in the modern...
Do you utilize checklists to manage your day? Especially for consistent tasks that you need to perform each and every day. If you’re not, you need to.
Checklists can literally be a life saver. Just ask Atul Gawande, who wrote a fantastic book called “The Checklist Manifesto”. Gawande is a general a...
“There’s no greater waste of energy or resources than doing well that which should not be done at all.” – Peter Drucker
Do you feel distracted as you go through your day and your life in general? I know I do at times. There’s hope for you and me but you’ll have to be aware of this first.
I was lis...
The flow…the mojo. Do you have it? Have you ever felt it? The flow is something you get when you’re working on a task and time stands still. It’s effortless almost. You’re so immersed in what you’re doing that you forget about time – by the time you come back up you’ve usually have a pretty cool out...
Hi and greetings from St. Louis. I’m at the airport, just returning from a funeral service for a friend/colleague’s dad. Second funeral in the last month….although the last one was much younger – a good friend’s wife passed away at the early age of 40. For this one, Mr. B. was close to 80 – not that...
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Gandhi
I just returned home from Cleveland Thursday night. I spent the evening with my dad. I took the drive up there for a visit to the Cleveland Clinic with him. He’s had some issues in recent years with memory loss am...
“If I were playing poker, I’d say that until I was 24 years old, I held a royal flush—in spades. But in one split second, I was left with a pair of twos. What I’ve discovered, however, is that if you play it right, a pair of twos can win.” – Adam Helbling (from his book, “Well, I Guess I’m Not Jesus...
“Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle… when the sun comes up, y...
Are you really focused on the important things in your work day?
Researchers at the University of Michigan found that productivity dropped as much as 40% when subjects tried to do two or more things at once. Rescue Time did a study and shows that the average work checks email 50 unique times and in...
