An influential book to me was Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. In the book, the author theorizes that a meaningful life is one where the person spends their time in a state of optimal experience called Flow. And through living in Flow creates a sense of fulfillment and happiness. Flow state […]
One Thing You Can Do To Stop Procrastinating
Stop Procrastinating Are you a procrastinator? Were you the kid that would study for a big test the night before and get homework done on the way to school? It’s nothing to be proud of, but we all have our moments of procrastination. Here’s a simple little life hack to stop procrastinating and getting stuff […]
One Thing You Can Do To Be More Disciplined
Be More Disciplined Discipline is something we are taught from an early age, but as we start to grow up, we we tend to fight it and eventually become pretty lax about it. Then something interesting happens. You start to realize that there are a lot of benefits to being more disciplined. The main one […]
The Value of Criticism
Value The concept of value is kind of a funny concept when you really think about it. There are so many people on this earth, and we all have a different system when it comes to determining what is important to us. In general, the three things that most of us value the most include […]
What’s important
How Well Do You Know What is Important (Update) This was one of my first blog posts. This is not important, but to note, it was still on the “hello world” post that comes with WordPress. I decided to give it a new home and a little updating. The message is what is important. A […]
Success by Breaking Through Personal Barriers
Success by Breaking Through Personal Barriers Success can be defined as breaking through your personal barriers. Do you even know what your personal barriers are? Are you aware of how your personal barriers, your self imposed limits, may be holding you back? When you set a goal say it out loud. Say it with conviction–emotion. […]
Evaluating – The key to good course correction
Evaluating When You are Off Course I’m sure you have heard the how the Apollo rocket is off course about 97% of the time on it’s way to the moon. You see the computerized guidance system is designed so that it is constantly assessing where it is in relationship to it’s final destination, and then […]
OK, time to turn over a new leaf
Making Time for a Blog I find it a bit amusing that I started this blog back in August and the first post I chose to write about was making time. Now here it is November already and I am finally making time to blog. I am learning coaching is all about creating new habits, […]