WITH INTENTION BLOG
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...
Wow. I just finished a call with best-selling author and speaker, Bob Burg, and I’m super excited to share it with you. We talked to Bob a few months back, mainly about his book, co-authored with John David Mann, The Go-Giver. This time around we’re talking about his newest book, Adversaries into Al...
“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar
Are you running your day or is your day running you?
We are getting crushed by the constant barrage of interruptions and focus grabbers. Emails, phone calls, pointless meetings, intern...
“When you focus on the practice instead of the performance, you can enjoy the present moment and improve at the same time.”
James Clear
It’s New Year’s Resolution season – the season of starting fresh and setting goals for 2014. I don’t have to tell you the challenges we all face with setting thes...
Never before had I made a coaching move with this kind of impact. Never in my career had I felt such emotion. You’d think we had just one a championship. It wasn’t a buzzer-beating basket; it wasn’t a heave from half-court that made the place go nuts. In fact, it wasn’t even a play. All I had done w...
“The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyper-consciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.”
...“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
Viktor Frankl (“Man’s Search for Meaning”)
Being average is easy. Letting your past circumstances dictate your present life is s...
