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More about misfits and messes
3 Ways to Deal with Chaos
Horror movies have always been a Hollywood staple. Sometimes, the film maker intends to truly shock and horrify us, like in Silence of the Lambs.* Sometimes, the picture is a campy takeoff of a horror film, such as Sharknado.** And then there are films that were purportedly serious, but wind up unintentionally humorous. Plan 9 from Outer Space, anyone? *** [Read more…]
2014 has been a challenging year . . . but it’s going to get much better
Greetings everyone.
I’m back!
For those of you with whom I have not spoken or communicated recently, let me share with you the saga of my 2014. Beginning in late January of this year, I suffered two strokes, blood clots in my legs and lungs, all of which were caused by a cancerous tumor. In late February, I had surgery to remove the tumor, followed by 18 grueling weeks of chemotherapy and related treatment.
I am recovered from the strokes, and cancer free!
While I maintained as diligent a coaching schedule as possible during these past months, my health took a toll on my activities. At this point, however, I’m feeling great, energetic, and ready to serve all of you as your transition magician.
Feel free to reach out to me if I can be of service, or simply to say hello and catch up. I value each and every one of you, and always look forward to our times spent together.
And stay tuned, as in my next newsletter, I will have limited time offers available for exciting new services and educational and coaching opportunities.
All my best,
Ann
What is a “SMART” goal?
Coaches and consultants alike encourage clients to set goals. A useful acronym in this regard is that for a goal to be an effective benchmark, it needs to be “SMART”. [Read more…]
Yet another reason to be an entrepreneur . . .
Being on my own gives me the opportunity to brainstorm and to solve puzzles my own way. One of the missions of virtually every large organization, from the military on down to most corporate environments, is to train or mold employees into serviceable parts. Whether you are a private in the U.S. Army, or you are an IBM-er, you have to be trained or indoctrinated into matching your goals with those of your organization. On my own, I make up the goals. Moreover, I really enjoy brainstorming to try to figure out solutions to problems. That’s something that’s tough to do as a wage slave. Yes, I know there are companies that value innovation and encourage free-form thinking, but I believe these are still rare. With myself, sometimes bouncing ideas off of other colleagues, I can think of 100 ideas, of which 99 would suck, but one of them might be really valuable. Not only is this a cool way to spend my day, I think I might be run out of any typical big organization.
How to exact revenge
Revenge. It’s not only a TV show. Haven’t we all thought of “getting even” with someone at some point in our lives? [Read more…]
The Seven Deadly Sins of entrepreneurship — part four
The fourth of Gandhi’s seven spiritually detrimental traits is knowledge without character. In the world of entrepreneurship, think of this fourth trait or sin, as being all analytical while ignoring your “softer” side. In other words, you deal only with cold, hard facts, and brush off the intuitive, emotional, and creative elements of your self. [Read more…]
What did you expect?
Expectations have an enormous impact on your behavior. Expectations are one of the ways in which your brain organizes and makes sense of contemplation of the future. Your thoughts, the little dialogue which continually operates within your “self”, essentially focus on either the past, the present, the future, or some combination of these three.
Expectations generally deal with thoughts of the future. An expectation may help you set goals and lead you on a path to take action to meet those goals. An expectation can help you as an athlete excel. An expectation can assist you in healing, as in a belief of the power of medication to cure disease or reduce pain, even in cases where the medication is a placebo. Expectations motivate you to achieve results and meet goals. [Read more…]
The Seven Deadly Sins of entrepreneurship — part one
Mohandas Gandhi created a list of seven traits that he believed to be spiritually detrimental to each and every one of us. Today, and for six articles thereafter, I am going to adapt these seven sins, applying them to the world of the entrepreneur.