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Success Meter: Do You Want it Bad or Not Bad Enough?

Laura — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:01:49 +0000

We all have our own measure of what we see as successful. We may know what we want, but the hard thing is getting there. I generally encounter two types of people in my coaching practice: “the want it so bad it hurts type” or “the I want it but not enough to make the time to make it happen. Both of these groups have a difficult time getting to their destination because they both have difficulty allowing things to happen.

The “I want it so bad it hurts” folks are in a constant mode of doing and when they get [...]

How to Begin Tackling Organization Overwhelm

Laura — Wed, 12 May 2010 21:58:35 +0000

Our environment is a reflection of how we are operating in the world. All we need to do is to look around our environment to realize how overwhelmed we feel. There is always an urgent task that needs to get done and of course the laundry isn’t folded. For some people, that is just the home environment, there are more papers waiting on the desk at work.

I have never been great at organizing, but I could organize things just enough so I could find things when I needed them. But lately, halfway has not been working for me. I really [...]

Feeling Stuck? Tips For Achieving Goals

Laura — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:33:21 +0000

I often encounter clients who claim they know what they want to accomplish with their lives and doing it, they are paralyzed. It’s not enough to just know what you want; you have to figure out a way to get it done. This is where many people fall short when setting goals. If this sounds familiar, you are not alone. We all find ourselves stuck in that place at certain points in our lives.

So the question becomes: How do you push through it? In their book, “The Knowing Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge Into Action”, Jeffrey Pfeiffer [...]