Blog 139 – Working Rewards
When you make the 365 Commitment, you’ll need to use every trick in the book to stay on track. What book am I referring to here? The psychology book of course, in particular, behavioral psychology. B.F. Skinner, a famous and influential behavioral psychologist, trained animals to to amazing tricks using reward. This is the positive […]
Blog 138 – If Creative and Competent, Then Constrained and Disciplined
Constraints inspire our creativity – not more freedom. Discipline channels otherwise impulsive behavior into development of ability. I know these things to be true, but there is a war going on inside me. A battle between two forces. There is the immature child, and there is the parent or “grown up” part of me. Too […]
Blog 137 Daily Re-Commitment
It’s a new day! When my daughter was a toddler, in the morning she would stand up in bed and say “It’s new day Daddy!” Her joy at the prospect of the new day was contagious. Lately, I find myself enjoying each new morning, a giddy feeling of joy will bubble up, and the possibilities […]
BLOG 136 – Not Urgent Becomes Urgent
Steven Covey’s four quadrant model model for clarifying what we should focus on in life is a great tool for anyone making the 365 Commitment. Use it! Categorize your goals and tasks into one of the four boxes. It’s a 2×2 box model with “Important” and “Not Important” labeling the bottom, and “Urgent” and “Not […]
Blog 135 G.R.O.W. Finale
The final letter in the GROW model is W, which stands for Way Forward. Using GROW method over the past four blogs, we took time to ask ourselves some good questions and derive a clear picture of what we want, in the context of our actual reality, and we took into consideration our current situation, […]
Blog 135 – G.R.O.W. Part 4
In my last two blog posts we’ve looked at Alan fine’ s GROW method for performance enhancement. Alan began his career as an athletic coach and realized that the same strategies he used for athletes worked in any performance situation. So far, we’ve covered G regarding Goal setting and vision, and R, regarding taking stock […]
Blog 134 – G.R.O.W. Part 3
Woke up early this morning, couldn’t go back to sleep, so I quietly put on my workout gear so as not to wake my wife, and stepped out into the 4:20am cool, quiet, darkness of the morning. As I begin to walk, I think about using the G.R.O.W process I learned from Alan Fine the […]
Blog 133 – G.R.O.W. Part 2
Do you want to help yourself? Here is some good coaching advice from Alan Fine. Put the performer first. I’m using his advice to help you “self-coach.” To begin, forget about the other people in your head. There are many perspectives you can take, put the unhelpful ones aside. For example, the Judgment voice can […]
BLOG 132 – G.R.O.W. Part 1
Alan Fine is a Performance Coach who began his career working with athletes and expanded into all sorts of career and business settings. His motivation for helping people stemmed from his own childhood experience of choking spectacularly in a tennis match. He was 11 yrs old, and unexpectedly found himself well in the lead during […]
Blog 131 – Saddle Up Rosinante!
“Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm” – Unknown Author This quote cracks me up. I am laughing at myself, because right now I am working up some enthusiasm to once again lurch forward toward what I want. I want to re-start a habit I began on January […]