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I trust you're well as we round out the first quarter of 2022.  Yes, I agree, weird to realize the year is moving right along at a pace we seldom appreciate.  To help keep me on pace and make adjustments, I do my best to do my WRAP process every week, month, and year.  (You can learn more about that  here ).  As I had mentioned to you previously, writing a book and doing more speaking is in my (not so distant) future.  So, what did I do to make progress, you ask?  I took action and did 2 frightening things.   One is, I signed up for a Speaker course with a long time mentor of mine, Blair Singer.  If you've ever been to one of our Momentum Weekend Events or just heard me speak, many pieces of that was engineered by what I learned waaaaay back in the day from him.  I'm going back to improve and step up my game.  Wish me luck.  lol   Two, and this is where you come in, I reached out to MicroFamous guru Matt Johnson ...

Sometimes we can take on the world and other times we hide in the corner sucking our thumb.  Well, maybe that’s just me.  The difference?  Confidence.  What is it?  Where does it come from?  Can we create or build it?  Here’s how those who experience purpose answer those questions.   This is a subject that comes up at our QC Mastermind.  When attendees find out they are going to be required to do an 8 minute presentation on the last day, fear strikes the heart of the majority.  “I’ve never spoken before”, “I’m not good at it”, “Do I have to?”... all statements and questions we hear.  Fast forward 7 weeks and they step up to the platform like a superhero in a cape.  What makes the difference?  You already know… confidence.   I like to define confidence by breaking down the etymology of the word itself.  Basically it’s the mixture of two latin words, con + fidelis.  Con= with (think con queso… like w...

Some of you know that I have really wanted to write a book for a long time.  Be prepared to read here a vulnerable conversation I've been having with myself for the last couple of months.   The verbal soup in my head is relentless and #MomentumTribe deserves a well thought out and articulated version of almost 20 years experience.  You’d think that was reason enough to make it happen.  And yet, here I am with one pathetic book published a decade ago and another digital one in 2018.  Why does writing have to be so hard?   Layer on top of those the books I’ve read and think to myself, damn I could have easily put that on paper too.  Those authors are out proclaiming their sound message while I’m still over here sipping on my soup.   This morning, as I looked at my screen I thought to myself: “Why is this so hard?” Ugh.  And then immediately my mind kicked in… ​ The quality of your life is in direct response to the quality of the ...

When we wrote about the first obstacle last week it only took that much time to surface the second obstacle.  If you didn’t get a chance to see the first one, find it  here .  Basically we unraveled the conversation around having a clear and compelling outcome.  Without it, you’re doomed to consistent feelings of failure.   What do you think happens when we write down our outcomes?  Do you typically just go after it?  If so, how long does that level of intensity last before you begin to re-address that outcome?  In my experience, it's only about a week or two before I start rethinking things.  Maybe it’s longer for you, but for me I find myself looking at other options.   I noted last week that I recently took on over 70 real estate agents to Coach and this second obstacle has already begun to surface. ​ Let’s face it, we live in a stimulus-rich environment.  There’s pings, blips, dots, reels, posts, on and on.  So mu...

It doesn’t matter that I have been evaluating businesses and the people running them for close to two decades, there’s one thing that always seems to be the first obstacle.   When I agreed to take on a Coaching role with 75+ real estate agents across 3 states, it's best practice for me to touch base with each person and discuss their current state of affairs.  Establishing the gap is a primary skill in this work and this week hasn’t been any different.  Maybe this is why we naturally hide from a coaching relationship?  Nobody wants to know there’s a gap between where they are and where they want to be.  If you’re like me, you want the direct path.  I’m not really interested in knowing about the chasm between here and there.  So what is that first obstacle you ask?   ​ Let’s first talk about what it’s not.  It’s rarely ever an issue of ambition, motivation, or flexibility. Take less than 3 minutes on social media and you’ll see plent...