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If You Focus on Your Process – the Result will Take Care of Itself
Bold claim I know but hear me out. If I asked you if you knew what it took to lose weight, you’d probably respond with an answer along the lines of – “eat less, move more.” If I asked you about how to get out of debt, you’d probably tell me that “you need to…
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We Move Towards What We See in Our Mind
In the classic book Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill shares a Self-Confidence Formula. This is a formula that he asks readers to memorize and repeat aloud once a day and there is good reason for this. The second paragraph of that formula goes as follows: I realize that the dominating thoughts of my mind…
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Beautiful Strategy…But Are You Getting the Results You Want?
Winston Churchill said “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” Regardless of the strategy, you are getting results. The thing is – are these “the results” that you set out to get, are they better, or are they worse? There’s a story that Warren Buffett famed investor shared in his mentor…
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Is Your Business Dream Turning into a Living Nightmare?
My friend Richie Norton, bestselling author of “The Power of Starting Something Stupid” is responsible for this week’s column title. He was coaching me through a couple ideas and talking about his own work in helping business owners start, scale and streamline their businesses, when out tumbled these words “…when business dreams turn into a…
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By Our Choices We Reveal Our Commitments
If what you are currently doing isn’t working for you, you have other choices. Responsibility is the recognition of choice, and by your choices you reveal your commitments – Marlene Chism Today’s post was inspired by my friend and colleague Marlene Chism, author of ‘Stop Workplace Drama’. I posted the quote above as a Facebook…
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It’s a New Day
Jumped into my car yesterday on my way to my regular coaching session with Sean, Sian and Maria at the Plant People and Patti LaBelle’s song started to play. For those of you who don’t know me well, I seldom listen to the radio. I have mixed CDS that I play in the car with…
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What if All That’s Missing Between You and Your Success is Effort?
Reading Dan Waldschmidt’s Edgy Conversations and I really had to address just how much effort I was putting into those things that I SAY I want. We’re the talking species. The “let me explain why…” species. The REASONING species. Yet could it just be that we have also become the LAZY species? With “ACME” instant…
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You can’t buy your way out of a problem you behaved your way into…
The quick-fix. We are all guilty of searching for it. We don’t want to do THE WORK we just want “IT” to change – magically. After which we will sail or ride into the sunset. Newsflash: There are no quick tips, how-to techniques or “you can bet your life on it” tactics that will magically…
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How to Plan an Attack on Your Addiction to Comfort
*This article was also published in my weekly column in the Trinidad and Tobago Business Newsday Jan 16 2014 Robert D. Smith, author of 20,000 Days and Counting: The Crash Course for Mastering Life Right Now, says that every day we face a battle against two thoughts: Will this ever work? Am I good enough? He…
Clarity BEFORE Execution. Structure BEFORE Speed
If you could better understand one thing about your business right now….
Most costly decisions begin with
an inaccurate understanding of the situation.
I help leaders understand what is actually happening before major decisions are made or
resources are invested in solving the wrong problem.
Giselle Hudson | Pre-Decision Diagnostic Advisor | Sensemaking for high-stakes business decisions 