I hear this all the time: “Things are going too well for me - I’m waiting for the sky to fall.” If it’s not said directly its implied in many ways throughout a coaching conversation. Trust me, I’m not being dramatic. Learning to live your life beyond your beliefs is impossible. Think about that for a moment. If learning to live your life beyond your beliefs is impossible what implications does that have to your life? In the long term, your internal beliefs will always driv

Is it possible to learn to leverage our time for it’s highest purpose? When we make a trade off in life we sacrifice something in our choice. Trading UP rather than off is when we can learn to understand that life is a system of intentional deposits and withdrawals. When we start to look at our life in this manner we can then learn to trade up rather than just trade off. I find that using a simple banking transaction as an example really helps to understand the enormity of

So what’s the way of the essentialist? The way of the essentialist is the relentless pursuit of less but better. It’s the skill of weighing the options and pursuing those, and only those, that are truly essential. It says no to many and yes to a few. In the language of strengths, it’s a person making a choice to pursue their strengths and manage their weakness’s. For example, if we spend our time focusing on what we are bad at and really working hard to get better – at best