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One Minute Coach: Growth vs Perfection
| May 27, 2020
Successful people focus on growth while less successful people get fixated on perfection.
One Minute Coach: The real meaning of "Always" and "Never"
| February 11, 2019
The words always and never are not words to be taken literally. They reflect past pain and disappointment.
Launch Time: Be Happier in 90 seconds, for Real
| February 11, 2019
How we answer the most basic question we get everyday, "How are you doing?" can say a lot about our mindset and happiness.
Keywords: anxiety, career coach, change management, happiness, life coach, mindset, parenting, stress, success, teens
One Minute Coach: Two Phrases to cut your Stress in Half
| November 20, 2018
The two phrases that I will share can lower your stress by 50%.
Keywords: career coaching, change management, goal setting, parenting, stress, stress management, success, teenagers, youth sports
Launch Time: 4 Responses to Disappointment
| November 13, 2018
There are 4 possible responses to disappointment and only one of them is healthy. What is your achilles heel?
Keywords: anger, avoid, coaching, denial, life coach, mindset, perfectionism, procrastination, success
One Minute Coach: 4 Success Questions
| November 6, 2018
Do you want to evaluate the success of an interview, a tryout, a presentation, a game or just about anything? Answer Yes to these four questions and you have been successful.
One Minute Coach: How to Avoid always being Disappointed
| October 31, 2018
When we have unspoken expectations, we are set up for disappointment. We need to convert expectations to requests and then requests can become agreements.
Keywords: agreements, coaching, conflict, disappointment, expectations, leadership, mindset, parenting, success |
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One Minute Coach: Playing Offense vs Playing Defense in Life
| October 24, 2018
There are two ways you can approach life. You can play Offense or Defense. Most people play Defense, but the truly successful have learned to play Offense.
Launch Time: I Feel Trapped
| October 16, 2018
Have you ever just shouted, "I feel trapped!!! There is no way out!" I bet most of us have uttered these words in moments of desperation. On one hand it feels good to vent, but reinforcing the stuckness is dangerous.
Keywords: career, executive coaching, leadership, mindset, relationships, success, time management, victim
Launch Time: Your going to do this for the rest of your life?
| 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. Now that we have blown it, might as well just chuck the whole thing and have 3 pieces of chocolate cake? Am I wrong here? Â
Keywords: automate, coaching, dweck, eating clean, exercise, failure, fixed mindset, growth mindset, habits, life coaching, persistence, success |
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Launch time: Taking Down the Judge
| August 1, 2018
Each of us has a little voice in our head that talks to us all the time. Some people call this voice self talk, the Judge or the inner critic. Our Judge can be be strong but there are two ways to break the power of the Judge.
Launch Time: My 24 month journey as a runner
| July 28, 2018
I have never thought of myself as a runner. An athlete yes, I played three sports in high school and played college baseball. A runner? No, running was the thing you did at the end of practice that you dreaded. In the last 24 months, I have developed the habit of running 100 miles a month.
Stop Playing Pinball: 3 Questions to Build Self Awareness and Live Proactively
| April 15, 2018Slowing down to ask 3 key questions will reduce our stress and increase our effectiveness in life.
The Big Adrenaline Drop: 3 Keys to being Smart after a Victory
| March 21, 2018
When our adrenaline is running high, the key to staying successful is to have a good post-event routine.
Keywords: adrenaline, athletes, career coaching, change management, coaching, growth, mindset, resilience, success, victory
Living in the Shadows: 3 Keys to Forming Your Own Identity when you have an Ultra Successful Parent
| March 9, 2018The children of highly successful parents can easily be labelled as disappointments or underachievers. As highly successful parents, we need to ask the right questions and create an environment for success for our kids.
One Minute Coach: Habit #3 Arrange Your World for Success
| January 7, 2018When we make the things we want to do slightly easier and the things we want to avoid slightly harder, we arrange our world for success and give ourselves a good chance to develop positive habits.
One Minute Coach: Habit #2 Monitor Your Progress
| September 6, 2017Once we set a goal it is critical that we have ways to keep us accountable. We can monitor our progress through apps, spreadsheets, check-in and a variety of other methods.
Keywords: athletes, coaching, goal, grit, growth, habit, happiness, life coaching, mindset, persistence, positive, progress, success |
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One Minute Coach: Habit #1 - Set a Goal
| August 11, 2017Setting a Goal is step #1 to developing SMART Habits. Goals must be easily measurable and observable. In other words, there should be no question whether you did them or not.
Keywords: coaching, goal, habits, life coaching, male, perfectionism, procrastination, success, teens, weight loss, young men |
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One Minute Coach: 5 Steps to New Habits
| August 9, 2017
Coach Pat talks give an overview of the 5 things it takes to produce a habit. The 5 steps are based on the research from the book Living SMART.
One Minute Coach: Failing vs Being a Failure
| January 18, 2017When we fail at something, it is an event. Being a failure is an identity, they are not even close to the same thing.
One Minute Coach: Habits
| January 8, 2017Everyone wants to develop positive habits and eliminate negative habits. One simply key is to make positive habits slightly easier and negative habits slightly harder to do.
One Minute Coach: Next Step
| November 13, 2016We often procrastinate because we are not sure of the "next action".
Keywords: action, coaching, getting things done, organization, productivity, success, time management
One Minute Coach: 90 vs 100
| November 6, 2016For perfectionists, the key question to ask, "Is this a 90% thing or 100% thing?"
Keywords: coaching, life coaching, perfect, perfectionism, perseverance, persistence, relationships, self scrutiny, success, young men |
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One Minute Coach: Opportunity
| October 30, 2016Opportunity is all around us and it takes courage to embrace it.
Launch Time: When You Hit a Bump Part I: Denial
| March 27, 2016The path to success is rarely a rocket ship straight up. It normally involves ups and downs along the way. The ups and downs are what we call bumps. How we consistently respond to bumps will determine our long-term success.
Keywords: career, coach young men, grit, inspiration., motivation, persistence, relationships, success |
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AlignMENt: 3 Key Success Questions
| July 13, 2013
When we fail or make a mistake asking three key questions can make all the difference.
AlignMENt: Are you raising gritty kids?
| June 8, 2013
Grit is the single best predictor of a person's future success.
AlignMENt: Our Greatest Fear
March 2, 2013
I love this poem from Marianne Williamson. We do the world no favors by playing small.
AlignMENt: What Successful Dads tell their kids
| January 2, 2013
What if the message you communicated to your children was simply, "You cannot Fail. You can only Learn and Grow."
One Minute Coach Episode #9: Knowing When to Quit
| November 5, 2012
Knowing when and how to quit things is key to success
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