As we continue our exploration of what it means to reconnect with other people, today I’ll be focusing on the strategy of taking space to process. It seems counterintuitive that stepping away from people will give us a better connection to our friends, family, and coworkers, but I share how this strategy can help you deepen relationships in your personal and business life.

What’s Inside:

• How can giving yourself time away from other people help you actually connect with them?

• How you can use the strategies of “Listen, Curiosity, & Space to Process” together.

• Why you should take the opportunity to step back sometimes.

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I would never have started a podcast, a blog, or even a business if I hadn’t gotten curious about where it would lead me. This week’s strategy is going to stretch you a little as you add in curiosity to your listening exercises, and get to know why people do the things they do in your organization.

What’s Inside:

• How you can use curiosity to move your business forward.

• How I used curiosity to explore new ideas.

• Learn more as you ask questions and stretch your understanding.

• Connect with me on my website and share your experiences.

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Have you ever sat through an entire meeting without answering a single question? What would it look like if you spent more time listening and less time talking? If you want the potential to change your relationship with your bosses and employees, then today I’m going to share how listening might be exactly what you need.

What’s Inside:

• Being more receptive to new ideas can be transformational.

• How something as simple as listening will challenge you.

• How a leader can become a thought leader.

• Your weekly call to action.

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A huge part of any business is salesmanship, but what if you’re not a natural salesman? I review Steve Chandler’s book The Joy of Selling and share my favorite excerpts and inspirational thoughts. No matter where you’re at in your sales journey, Chandler’s book can help you take the next step.

What’s Inside:

• How the desire for a result matters more than the system behind it.

• How selling “from the spirit” changes your entire selling experience.

• Why your product doesn’t matter as much as the story you tell.

• My biggest takeaway from this book.

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Small changes can add up over the long run. I share some small and deliberate strategies that I’ve implemented that have helped me work toward my goal. By choosing to focus on scaling back when something doesn’t work out the way I planned, I’m able to keep the momentum building without overwhelming myself.

What’s Inside:

• I share some examples of how the 5% change can add up to big changes.

• Why small steps are best in moving toward a goal.

• Your weekly Call to Action.

• How you can adapt when a goal becomes too much.

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This week’s strategy is designed to help you break down your Big Bold Goal into smaller bite-sized goals. We’ll take your previous work and add to it to create a streamlined decision-making process that moves your momentum forward. By focusing on your 3rd quarter goals, I’ll help you create a more actionable and realistic to-do list that moves you closer to the person you want to be.

What’s Inside:

• The 3 areas I focus on as I work on my goals.

• How to take action on your Big Bold Goal.

• The importance of trying and failing.

• How the profit first model affects my goals.

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Generic descriptions of what you want to be like aren’t going to be enough to push you closer to your Big, Bold Goal. I share a strategy that helps you create a blueprint for your better self, and that will set you up for success no matter how wild and crazy your goals are.

What’s Inside:

• How you can focus on action-based characteristics.

• Why you should define your characteristics to yourself.

• How to use your document to change yourself.

• Your weekly Call to Action.

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How do you get to where you want to go? Moving toward your Big Bold Goal will take some personal change, so today I share how I plan on changing myself. Mentors, role models, and coaches can help you identify the qualities you’ll need to develop to move the needle on your life’s goals.

What’s Inside:

• The qualities I see in my role models.

• Is my work providing water for other people’s dreams?

• Why it’s important to recognize where you’re at so that you can move the needle forward.

• How dreaming big can influence other people positively.

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Let’s take a deep breath, hit pause for a second, and refresh our goals for the second half of the year. Big, bold goals that stretch you out of your comfort zone will give you something to fail towards, and I share how that mindset shift can positively impact your business this year.

What’s Inside:

• In life, where we learn the most is where we fail.

• Why you want to set big, huge goals that you can fail.

• How to gain wisdom, experience, and self-knowledge.

• What is the one thing you need to do to make your big, bold goal happen?

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Are you ready to apply what you’ve learned from the pandemic to your company? We’ll pull together all of our work from the last three weeks and reflect on how we can use these lessons to come out of this situation better and stronger than before.

What’s Inside:

• Move things from your head onto your to-do list.

• Take some time to express appreciation to your team and your spouse.

• Reflecting on the work you’ve done through the pandemic allows you to apply those lessons and learn from them.

• Are you ready to let go of the things that just aren’t working anymore?

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In this episode, you’ll have the opportunity to sit and think about your company’s performance as a whole. In this macro-level view, you’ll have the chance to ruminate on what worked and what didn’t, and address any problems you discovered as your company experienced the pandemic. What will you change as a result of this week’s questions?

What’s Inside:

• 5 questions to help you step back and get your company’s big picture response.

• Why giving yourself some time to think will help you become a better leader.

• Your weekly call to action.

• To schedule a time with me to connect about your pandemic experience, please reach out on my website.

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This week I’d like you to focus on your team and their performance during the pandemic. By setting aside some time to pause and reflect, you’ll be able to move forward with clarity to accomplish your business goals and strengthen your team.

What’s Inside:

• By reflecting on those that over performed, you’ll be able to recognize achievements.

• Identifying those who struggle to meet their goals can help you train them for future crises.

• Your weekly call to action.

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Spend some time reflecting on your leadership, and learn from your mistakes and successes. I invite you to answer 5 questions that require you to dig deep and get honest about what you did during the pandemic. Over the next few episodes, we will continue to explore this idea as we look at aligning our behavior with our goals and purposes.

What’s Inside:

• Applying the growth mindset requires you to spend some time thinking.

• My suggestions for how you can learn from the lessons of the last few months.

• Why true answers to questions always take some time to uncover.

• 5 questions to ask yourself about your leadership during the pandemic.

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Putting off a difficult conversation just because you’re dreading it doesn’t resolve your problem. In my book review for Crucial Conversations, I share my favorite ways you can orient your point of view to have productive conversations that lead to a resolution. I also provide quick tips for how to lead in a difficult conversation in an easy digital download.

What’s Inside:

• The main objective of these conversations is to approach someone professionally and with an open mindset.

• How the acronyms S.T.A.T.E. can help you guide a conversation.

• I model a conversation that shows you how to “state your path”.

• Make the deliverables crystal clear to ease the follow up you need to do.

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The shift to working from home during a national pandemic has definitely shortened our attention span. Focusing on work when so much extra stuff is going on can be incredibly difficult. I offer strategies today that will help you reprioritize your work, increase your output, and center you on your goals again.

What’s Inside:

• When I’m feeling stuck, I ask myself, “What am I procrastinating on?.”

• 3 questions that I look at every day to stay focused.

• If the result you want is to create, then you need to have a plan.

• Even with strategies, it’s normal to get distracted. Use these strategies to correct yourself quickly.

• Your Call to Action for this week.

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It can be easy right now to make excuses for why you’re not being consistent in your business and your life. The crisis was a pretty huge disruption in all of our lives, but it’s time to move toward our goals again. I talk about small and actionable ways you can add consistency back into your daily life again.

What’s Inside:

• We need to resist the idea that we don’t have time.

• How to pause, regroup, and work toward your goals again.

• If you want to be the owner of your life, you need to create some consistency.

• Take inventory about what actions you can add or change to create consistency.

• Your weekly call to action.

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Disruptions have taken on a whole new meaning this year as we have had to get used to social distancing and staying at home. Getting clarity when everything we planned for has shifted takes some work. I walk you through some thought exercises that will help you slow down so that you can speed up again.

What’s Inside:

• The path to burnout is pretending that our lives haven’t changed in the last few months.

• Create clarity by asking yourself these 3 questions.

• What can you do to set your business or yourself up for success?

• Take an hour and get clear about where you’re going.

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Have you ever scheduled a meeting and then dreaded that meeting? Do you ever sit down to do a task and find that your brain simply can’t focus? Today I talk about some simple solutions for working through reluctance or outright resistance, and why your feelings are totally normal.

What’s Inside:

• How to get things done even when you don’t want to.

• Why resistance to all the things you’re “supposed” to do is normal.

• Sometimes the strategy is so simple that we overlook it.

• Your weekly call to action.

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There are three negative phrases that can suck the joy out of your life. I introduce three new positive phrases that help you reframe your life with gratitude, and that help you see the bright side of the work you’re privileged to do. Reclaim the energy in your life by simply changing how you talk about the work you do.

What’s Inside:

• The positive words I use to create a lightness around the work I do every day.

• How changing your words can change your energy and your mindset.

• The three negative words that could be pulling you down.

• Do you want to be more positive for your family, your business, or for yourself?

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Do you feel like your schedule is too full for everything you really need to do? Scheduling in transition time is a trick to pad your calendar with more flex time to get even more accomplished. I talk about what that might look like for you, and how it has worked on my own calendar.

What’s Inside:

• How building in transition time helps create more time for your team.

• Skipping transition time can create some over scheduling conflicts.

• When scheduling less activities yields more productivity.

• If this works for you, then try adding in transition time for two weeks and.

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By utilizing the strategy of asking yourself why you do or don’t want to do something, you can dive deeper into understanding your actions or inaction. This understanding can help you move beyond the way things have always been done into a more productive, fulfilling business strategy.

What’s Inside:

• Some key strategies that will help you decide if you’re making the best decisions.

• Deciphering your Why can help you clarify your message to subordinates.

• Align your goals and head in the right direction by asking yourself to dive deep for your purpose.

• Your weekly call to action.

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When we plan big yearly goals, it’s best to take some time to assess where we’re at, and the end of the first quarter is the perfect time to do this. I review my own goals, and talk about why I succeeded at only some of them. By not personalizing my failure, I’m able to learn from my mistakes and plan better for the second quarter.

What’s Inside:

• How I focused on profit first for my own business in this quarter.

• Why my keynote speech became a less important goal for me.

• Assessing your accomplishments requires you to not take it personally.

• Planning too many goals for a quarter can inhibit your goals.

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How do you win in life when there are no finish lines? Inspired by Simon Sinec, I talk about the idea of an infinite mindset, and how that translates into the business world. By setting long-term goals and focusing on the short-term goals that move your business plan forward, you too can embrace the idea of always growing.

What’s Inside:

• Your weekly call to action.

• The difference between a finite game and an infinite game.

• Why sports and war analogies fall a little flat when it comes to life.

• The dash poem and what it means for your business.

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I love reviewing books that I really think will help you, and in this episode I talk about Dan Sullivan’s book Who Not How. As a powerhouse in the coaching industry, Dan’s enthusiasm for solving business problems is inspiring. I read some of my favorite quotes in this book, and talk about how you can apply them to your own business.

What’s Inside:

• Are you the right person to work on a goal?

• Can I achieve this goal by doing nothing?

• Why you shouldn’t be doing all of the “hows” on your own.

• How to help others catch the vision of your goal.

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Golf is a little like your business goals. It doesn’t always matter if you hit the ball; it matters who you become when you hit that ball and the process you went through to get there. I share 8 golf rules that are applicable to the business world, and how they can help you better strategize your business goals.

What’s Inside:

• What system have you created in your life?

• How “Being” is better than “Doing”.

• What “Don’t kill the birdie” has to do with life.

• Who did you become to hit that ball and why does that matter?

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When things feel out of balance, what does that look like for you? When you recognize that things are leaning too heavily to one side, I have some strategies that can help you. I share what balance looks like for me, and give some questions for you to ponder about where you can shift the load in your personal or professional life.

What’s Inside:

• Your weekly call to action.

• How balance can change.

• What balance looks like for me, right now.

• How I intentionally sought out friend time, and why that restored balance.

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If you’re feeling overwhelmed by a to-do list, developing a solid plan of action is the first step in tackling it. But what about all of the daily distractions found in modern life? If crossing things off your list doesn’t happen because you’re reflexively checking your phone twenty times an hour, then I have some productive strategies for you.

What’s Inside:

• My tips for reducing distractions.

• How to accomplish everything on a massive to-do list.

• How using social media selectively frees up your time.

• Move a project forward with these ideas.

• Using buffers between your goals, like watching Netflix, limits your accomplishments.

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If your days feel full of activities, and you can’t seem to find time to move forward with your goals, then it’s time to let go of some things in your life. But how do you choose what to cut out? I give some examples, and then provide some questions you can ask yourself to winnow out the things that are just not necessary in your life.

What’s Inside:

• Thinking introspectively, I ask some questions that will help think carefully about your time.

• How giving up Orange Theory made me happier.

• How doing less can actually be like doing more.

• I provide a weekly call to action for you to put into action.

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Diving deeper into the idea behind why we might break our promises to ourselves, I explore the thought process behind the decisions we make. When we make goals that we continue to fall short on, it is more helpful to carefully think about why we are doing that and how we can change that than putting the same goal on our to-do list every week. I walk you step-by-step through that process.

What’s Inside:

• How do we feel when we continue to break promises to ourselves?

• How can slowing down what we’re feeling make us change our behavior?

• Why you should address a core problem before it becomes a bigger problem elsewhere.

• When the to-do list becomes ineffectual, and how you can fix that.

• Why self-awareness is the first step to accomplishing goals.

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When you’re moving between goal posts, what worked for you before won’t continue to work moving forward. But how do you accomplish something you’ve never done before? Taking that first step toward your goals requires a lot of out-of-the-box thinking, and a determination to move the needle on your personal and professional life.

What’s Inside:

• How losing that last ten pounds is like moving from $1 million in sales to $2 million.

• Why brainstorming is important for your goals.

• How to know when your path to your goals isn’t working.

• The “magic pill” for a business plan doesn’t really exist.

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If you’re spending a great deal of time wishing that you could fix your boss or your employees, then today’s strategy might feel radical to you. I delve into ways that you can change your mindset and free up your mental energy to truly change the world around you. And it all starts with some serious introspection on your part.

What’s Inside:

• Reinventing yourself starts with being the owner and thoughts of your feelings.

• These three phrases will help you see if you have a problem with control.

• How giving up the idea of control will improve your relationships.

• How we can give up unrealistic expectations of others.

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How do you know if you’re ready to take the next step in your business? More planning and more preparation isn’t the answer. Get quiet and think about your goals, your skills, and what your first step will look like.

What’s Inside:

• Take this one action step this year to grow your business.

• How Star Wars is a little like your business plan.

• Serious questions to think about as you act on your business ideas.

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Welcome to the twentieth episode of The Strategy Corner. I offer up a total book review of Straight-Line Leadership for those who are too busy to read all of it.

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Welcome to the nineteenth episode of The Strategy Corner. In this episode we are bringing it all together and developing our 1 Year Plan and 1st Qtr. goals for 2020.

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Welcome to the eighteenth episode of The Strategy Corner. In this episode we are going to talk about creating 2020 utilizing a strategy of answering a set of questions as if it is December 31, 2020.

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Welcome to the seventieth episode of The Strategy Corner. In this episode we are going to talk about creating your 1 Thing and Dreaming can aid in helping you create a vision for 2020.

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Welcome to the sixteenth episode of The Strategy Corner. In this episode we are going to build your foundation so you can grow and develop your 2020 vision.

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Welcome to the fifteenth episode of The Strategy Corner. In this episode we are going to look back at 2019 and what you, the listener has accomplished and learned.

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Welcome to the fourteenth episode of The Strategy Corner. In this episode I am going talk about a simple strategy for creating joy. It is called Gratitude to Create Joy and it is a tool I use daily to focus on the “good” in my life.

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Welcome to the thirteenth episode of The Strategy Corner. In this episode I am going to share how you can get your employees to solve problems for you and thus create space for you the leader to not only level yourself up by your employee.

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Welcome to the twelfth episode of The Strategy Corner. In this episode I am going to share how fear and excitement live in the same vein and how you can tap into your excitement to get through fear.

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Welcome to the eleventh episode of The Strategy Corner. In this episode I am going to talk about my morning routine, the reasons for having a morning routine, and the famous Miracle Morning routine.

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Welcome to the tenth episode of The Strategy Corner.  In this episode I am going to share with you passages from one of my favorite books, “Reinventing Yourself:  How to become the person you’ve always wanted to be” by Steve Chandler.

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Welcome to the ninth episode of The Strategy Corner. In this episode I am going to share a simple strategy about time, and how you can play with it to “Produce” more.

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Welcome to the eighth episode of The Strategy Corner. In this episode I am going to dive into the idea of Productivity and how you can utilize this strategy to get more intentional production done.

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Welcome to the seventh episode of The Strategy Corner. In this episode I am going to talk about a strategy I first heard from Brooke Castillo several years back called “Gratitude Ahead of Time”, that I utilize on a daily basis.

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Welcome to the Sixth episode of The Strategy Corner. In this episode I am going to share a counterintuitive strategy called “Slowing Down To Speed Up”.

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Welcome to the fifth episode of The Strategy Corner. In this episode I am going to share Dan Sullivan’s time keeping system strategy that I use in coordination with lasts weeks strategy by Brooke Castillo to accomplish and schedule everything for success.

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Welcome to the fourth episode of The Strategy Corner.  In this episode I will be sharing a strategy I utilize weekly to help me to get things done.

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Welcome to the third episode of The Strategy Corner. In this episode I will be discussing the concept of People Second which is a continuation from lasts weeks episode on Structure First.

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Welcome to the second episode of The Strategy Corner.  In this episode I share with you a strategy exercise every owner and executive team should go through if they want to grow and or create a profitable business and it’s called, Structure First.

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Welcome to the first episode of The Strategy Corner. In this episode, I share with you a little about me, what to expect each week and then we dive into my first strategy.

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