You might not know this, but I was a nerd in high school. A total nerd. I was in the Mac I Computer Club, didn’t play any school sports, didn’t run for class president and was never part of the ‘in group of cool kids’. What do you call a nerd 10 to 20 years […]
Monthly Archive for October, 2008
Today’s post is from Gulliver. Gulliver works with me as our Results Catalyst. Please note: Only edits for style have been made. I realised today reading your Personal Mastery blog, that even though you play at a higher level, you face challenges just like me, you aren’t invincible, you aren’t superhuman. I never thought of […]
You hear it all the time, people are ‘successful’ but unhappy… That’s because they don’t have the 7th Step to Lasting Change – A POSITIVE ENVIRONMENT. Without a positive environment, you are destined to be unhappy, frustrated or otherwise unfulfilled. That was the last step that I needed about 10 years ago when I attended […]
I won my match today. Decisively. 9-0, 9-2, 9-2. Today’s lesson is so simple but so powerful it’s a classic. STRATEGY will beat TACTICS 9 times out of 10. Yesterday TACTICS won the games, but it might not have worked if I was able to apply my STRATEGY and be 2, 3 or 4% tighter […]
Today’s match was disappointing – the best way to put it is even Superman has Kryptonite… I played an ‘unorthodox’ player today who wasn’t better than me technically, but came up with the non-tradition shots that I couldn’t respond to due to lack of match experience. This was the one thing I couldn’t avoid this […]
Today was one of those surreal experiences – we’ve all had them. Kind of like a time warp. One minute, I’m fine tuning our Marketing Autopsy that allows people to self-diagnose where they’re at with their marketing and the next minute I’m on the court, playing at the World Masters Squash Championships… Weird. Today’s lessons […]
This evening I played a ‘top 8’ seeded player who taught me a few lessons: Play with class, dignity and sportsmanship because when the game is over, it’s over. This guy made losing ‘fun’ if that makes any sense and I HATE TO LOSE! What works for one ‘class of players’ doesn’t work at the […]
My first International Squash Match ends in… victory! I played really well against a formidable opponent. I got off to a quick start in the first game with my serve that was quite effective today. The second game was a lot closer than the 8-2 deficit I found myself in – He got points on […]
Today’s post is courtesy of Sandy Boldiston. It needs no introduction other than it ‘came to me automatically’… How freaky is that?!?! Thanks Sandy! So get to it! Create your vision and new destiny! If you are technologically challenged, you can collect photos from magazines and create a ‘dream book’ of images… Whatever you do, […]
If you haven’t read the classic book by James Allen, “As A Man Thinketh” published in 1937, you simply must get it and read it. It’s available for FREE as a PDF on the Internet although I would recommend you go out and actually buy the book – it’s a source of inspiration that I […]