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Blog posts tagged with "failure"

Launch Time: Your going to do this for the rest of your life?

By Patrick Donohue | September 10, 2018

A lot of the coaching I do comes down to people wanting to build positive habits or eliminate negative habits. Everyone understands that positive habits are great, but they also seem elusive. We get started and we are excited and then we blow it 3 days, 3 weeks or 3 months into the process.Â Now that we have blown it, might as well just chuck the whole thing and have 3 pieces of chocolate cake?Â Am I wrong here?Â Â

Keywords: automate, coaching, dweck, eating clean, exercise, failure, fixed mindset, growth mindset, habits, life coaching, persistence, success | 1 comments

One Minute Coach: Failing vs Being a Failure

By Patrick Donohue | January 18, 2017
When we fail at something, it is an event. Being a failure is an identity, they are not even close to the same thing.

Keywords: coach, failing, failure, growth, parent, persistence, success, teen | 2 comments