“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” ~ Stephen R. Covey Your greatest ability to influence others comes from the fact that influencing others is not an outside-in job … it is an inside-out job! Before I explain why … answer the following questions and be brutally honest with yourself: In most of your…
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” ~ Joe Klaas With what seems like a continual flow of untruthfulness and dishonesty from our politicians, the media, and practically every institution, is it any wonder why we have become numb to the whole idea about what it means to be…
The Path to an UN-Ordinary Journey Begins… “Change begins at the end of your comfort zone.” ~ Roy T. Bennett (*Below is an excerpt from the Introduction to Joe’s latest book, EXTRAORDINARY RESULTS FOR LIFE: Discover Your Path to Be UN-ordinary! ) Self-awareness is the first step in becoming un-ordinary. When you can…
“Perfectionism is the belief that something is broken – you. So you dress up your brokenness with degrees, achievements, accolades, pieces of paper, none of which can fix what you think you are fixing” ~ Edith Eger Driven By Perfectionism Many of us we’re taught to pursue perfection. We were imprinted with the belief that perfectionism…
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.” ~ Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now Our ability to leverage time is one of the most powerful tools we have if we want to accomplish anything in life. One of the biggest factors impacting our ability…
“Your extraordinary life will be comprised of all the small incremental choices you make, inching you forward every time you go outside your comfort zone.” ~ Joe Contrera (*An excerpt from Joe’s book, Extraordinary Results For Life, Discover Your Path to Be UN-ordinary) The world will tell you that you are not enough of…
“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” ~ Babe Ruth As I reflect over the last twenty-six years of my business, I am struck the…
“Human beings have a strong dramatic instinct toward binary thinking, a basic urge to divide things into two distinct groups, with nothing but an empty gap in between.” ~ Hans Rosling The other day I was chatting with a client about the inner-workings at a gold mine. Like many organizations they seem to have an ongoing…
“Time waits for no one.” ~ Yasutaka Tsutsui We all experience times in life when you feel like you get a couple of fast balls thrown at you. They brush you back from the plate, grab your attention, or wake you up rudely. Life deals out it’s fair share of adversity, and it shows up…
“You may say I’m a dreamer, But I’m not the only one! I hope someday you’ll join us, And the world will be as one” ~John Lennon A number of years ago there was a series of Hewlett Packard commercials whose tag line were “What If?” Since then, a number of folks have adopted…