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I’ve been a coaching client of the legendary Dan Sullivan at Strategic Coach for most of the last decade. Dan has a way of taking the complicated, cloudy issues of work and life and reducing them to a question that will freeze you in your tracks. Discovering your answer to these pinpointed questions usually leads...

The New Year’s resolution: that desired result that almost never is achieved. Part of the problem with New Year’s resolutions is the focus on the outcome, not on the activity or actions required to achieve it. For example, “I want to lose 10 pounds” is a good idea for some of us. But it’s a...

Television preachers are sometimes dramatic, if not outright zealous, in the delivery of their message. Oftentimes (at least when I’ve listened for more than a minute or two), they claim to be motivated and outspoken because they were “sinners who saw the light.” Well, I’m a zealous preacher, too. I worked for many years as...

Years ago, on vacation in California, I took my family to Disneyland for the day, which included driving north on I-5 from San Diego to Los Angeles. As we got on the freeway (and this is a busy, multilane highway, as most everyone knows), my young children spotted a car. It was old and the...

“Bob” retired as the captain of an ocean-going ship and ended up returning to the Midwest, managing the family ranch in the Sandhills region of north-central Nebraska. He had little interest in financial matters, leaving those details to his wife, a retired advertising executive. Once, as she and I were reviewing their financial plan, Bob...