“You miss one hundred percent of the shots you never take.” (Wayne Gretzky)
I’m not particularly gifted (sigh) but I am pretty driven. I choose to be proactive, focused and disciplined (mostly) because I’m fascinated by what we human beings can achieve when we commit to exploring our potential and when we don’t allow our thinking [...]
From the category archives:
Exploring Potential
I believe we are all born creative.
And over time, life beats it out of us. If we allow it to.
As kids, we were happily and courageously creative because we didn’t care what people thought of our creations. Remember when you didn’t care what people thought about your creative gifts? Your masterpieces? Your works of art? [...]
Picture this…
You’re sitting in my outdoor office in a big comfy chair. It’s a warm day, the bamboo trees are swaying in the breeze, you have your shoes off, your feet up and you have your favourite (non-alcoholic) drink in your hand (I am a responsible coach) . You’ve come to see me for [...]
What if it Just Ain’t True?
A few years ago one of my friends accidentally discovered that his dad was in fact not his dad at all. Ouch. At twenty seven years of age, he discovered that something he absolutely knew (not thought, hoped, or wished) to be fact, was in reality, not true [...]
The following article is a re-working of one of my older posts. It’s around fifty percent new but still one hundred percent relevant. Recent conversations have prompted me to tweak it, buff it, give it a little more grunt and wheel it out of the garage again. I believe it’s a message many of us need to [...]
Potential and Possibilities
We’ve all had breakthrough moments in our lives. Moments when a switch flicked, a light went on and a door to a new world of potential and possibilities opened up for us. For most of us, the door was always there to be opened but, for a range of reasons, we never turned [...]
Hi Guys. Not a very sexy topic today, but a relevant and valuable discussion for most of us nonetheless. I hope your weekend was fun and I also hope you found some time to send a few dollars to our friends in Haiti. If you’ve been feeling a little bit sorry for yourself lately just take a peek [...]
The ‘Almost’ Club
Last time I wrote about the propensity we have to not get the job done. Whatever the job may be. Some of us have been almost changing for years. Almost getting in shape. Almost giving up cigarettes, junk food, alcohol, drugs (insert your vice of choice). Almost making better decisions. Almost starting our [...]
