High performing businesses make bold brand promises and then build the systems to deliver on those promises. I live by what I say. My brand promise to you is:
Spend one hour reading David’s book Wind In Your Sails, attend a one hour keynote with him, or get one hour of 1-to-1 coaching and you will have 3 concrete action items that will shift and accelerate your business within 90 days.
I was riding around Stanley Park in Vancouver with my wife Karalee this weekend. We both stopped to take pictures of the Lions Gate Bridge spanning the entrance to Burrard Inlet. It reminded me of how fortunate we are to be able to live in and experience such a beautiful city.
I haven’t always had such deep appreciation for what I have. Seven years ago, I was unhappy in business and as it turns out in life. I hired extraordinary coach Kevin Lawrence who has helped me experience and live life and business in new ways. Looking back on our journey together, I see seven reasons why entrepreneurs need a coach.
Cruise ships, like the Norwegian Epic above, are getting bigger and bigger. The theory seems to be to that if you make it bigger they will come. For the cruise ship industry, that philosophy appears to be working.
This is the Labour Day long weekend in Canada and the US. For me, this annual holiday marks the end of the summer as people return to school and work. As I wrote in Taking Things for Granted, it has been a struggle to recover from vertigo brought about by an inner ear infection in May. While my energy levels have been coming back at work, my overall active life has not been at 100%. It has required a lot of patience with myself to acknowledge that my body and brain need more healing.
Shiny red balls distract many high performing people, myself included. While playing with a ball can be invigorating, like we see with the children in the photo above, more often it proves to be a distraction. What can you do if you feel yourself being pulled into the next shiny red ball?