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One Minute Coach: Growth vs Perfection

By Patrick Donohue | May 27, 2020

Successful people focus on growth while less successful people get fixated on perfection.

Keywords: business coaching, career coaching, executive coaching, growth, growth mindset, life coach, mindset, parenting, perfection, success, young men

One Minute Coach: The real meaning of "Always" and "Never"

By Patrick Donohue | February 11, 2019

The words always and never are not words to be taken literally. They reflect past pain and disappointment.

Keywords: always, career coach, change mangement, life coach, mindset, never, success

Launch Time: Be Happier in 90 seconds, for Real

By Patrick Donohue | 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

By Patrick Donohue | 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

By Patrick Donohue | 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

By Patrick Donohue | 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.

Keywords: business coaching, career coach, change management, coach, emotional intelligence, executive coach, success, time management | 1 comments

One Minute Coach: How to Avoid always being Disappointed

By Patrick Donohue | 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 | 2 comments

One Minute Coach: Playing Offense vs Playing Defense in Life

By Patrick Donohue | 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.

Keywords: career, defense, goals, mindset, offense, sports, success | 1 comments

Launch Time: I Feel Trapped

By Patrick Donohue | 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?

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

Launch time: Taking Down the Judge

By Patrick Donohue | 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.

Keywords: coach, energy, inner critic, judge, mindset, self talk, success

Launch Time: My 24 month journey as a runner

By Patrick Donohue | 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.

Keywords: growth, habits, persistence, running, success, young men

Stop Playing Pinball: 3 Questions to Build Self Awareness and Live Proactively

By Patrick Donohue | April 15, 2018
Slowing down to ask 3 key questions will reduce our stress and increase our effectiveness in life.

Keywords: anger, choice, coaching, goals, launch, mindset, proactive, stress, stress management, success, young men

The Big Adrenaline Drop: 3 Keys to being Smart after a Victory

By Patrick Donohue | 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

By Patrick Donohue | March 9, 2018
The 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.

Keywords: athletes, career coaching, celebrity, famous, life coach, mindset, success, teen

One Minute Coach: Habit #3 Arrange Your World for Success

By Patrick Donohue | January 7, 2018
When 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.

Keywords: athletes, environment, habit, motivation, perseverance, persistence, success, teammates

One Minute Coach: Habit #2 Monitor Your Progress

By Patrick Donohue | September 6, 2017
Once 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 | 1 comments

One Minute Coach: Habit #1 - Set a Goal

By Patrick Donohue | August 11, 2017
Setting 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 | 3 comments

One Minute Coach: 5 Steps to New Habits

By Patrick Donohue | 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.

Keywords: coach, goals, habit, optimism, perfectionism, procrastination, success | 2 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

One Minute Coach: Habits

By Patrick Donohue | January 8, 2017
Everyone 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.

Keywords: coach, effectiveness, habit, mindset, productivity, success | 2 comments

One Minute Coach: Next Step

By Patrick Donohue | November 13, 2016
We 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

By Patrick Donohue | November 6, 2016
For 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 | 1 comments

One Minute Coach: Opportunity

By Patrick Donohue | October 30, 2016
Opportunity is all around us and it takes courage to embrace it.

Keywords: courage, fear, growth, mindset, opportunity, success, victory | 2 comments

Launch Time: When You Hit a Bump Part I: Denial

By Patrick Donohue | March 27, 2016
The 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 | 2 comments