http://perspectivesinbrief.com Tips on the run....to run with Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:31:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How can you create an exciting work environment?  OK...you might be reading this and thinking "You've GOT to be kidding!"  No.  I'm dead serious.  If you're in the middle of chaos and you don't love the energy of what's unfolding, rethink what you're doing and where you're doing it. Yesterday ... http://perspectivesinbrief.com/2010/02/21/is-work-exciting/ There is a saying that goes "You get what you give".  I'm going to take it to another level and put on the table "You get what you accept.  And then you get more of the same". {!firstname_fix}, how many times have you heard someone say they attract the same kind ... http://perspectivesinbrief.com/2010/02/09/you-get-what-you-accept/ Hard to say no to others or to yourself?  You know...that voice inside you enticing you to dip your toe in to test the waters.  Do you want that promotion?  Or are others putting on the pressure and telling you to go after it?  Will the new position bring you ... http://perspectivesinbrief.com/2010/01/25/too-hard-to-say-no/ It's that time of year again...time to reflect on everything that's happened in the past year, not to live in the past but to acknowledge everything you've done, everything you've lived, learned, and everything you wished you had done but never got around to it. New Year's Resolutions feel powerful ... http://perspectivesinbrief.com/2009/12/29/intentions-equal-results/  "Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us." - Steven Covey        "Sorry to push you around" was a comment made recently by someone asking me to change my schedule to accommodate another's. I thought about that for a long time. ... http://perspectivesinbrief.com/2009/12/29/the-power-to-decide/ As I was fine tuning version 2.0 of a self coaching program, I asked myself many questions that I thought people needed to answer to move forward.  One of them is "Is easier harder?"  is it better? Do you have to slow down to go faster?  People want their lives to be ... http://perspectivesinbrief.com/2009/12/06/is-easier-harder/ One thing became very clear over the past two weeks and that is how powerful conversations can be when you bring great minds around a table to figure things out. Last month I co-chaired a Lab in San Antonio, Texas to look at the Future of Coaching in Organizations and led ... http://perspectivesinbrief.com/2009/11/15/powerful-conversations/ We want time to stand still when something amazing is happening, so we can savor it.  We want time to fly while we're waiting for something or when we can't wait to get to the other side of a horrible day.  We want more time to do everything that's on ... http://perspectivesinbrief.com/2009/11/03/what-is-your-relationship-to-time/ I was recently in conversation with colleagues and friends who said the most amazing things which I will remember for a long time to come.    One friend said something along the lines of "The language I use creates my reality". There are so many ways to expand on that. We mirror ... http://perspectivesinbrief.com/2009/11/03/the-language-you-use-creates-your-reality/ OK, what comes first?  What next?  Shouldn't priorities filter what pressures there are?  Logical question although there is rarely a logical answer for that.   Pressures don't always fit into the priorities category but they have to get done.  So what should you do now?  What should you do next?  How many times ... http://perspectivesinbrief.com/2009/10/04/for-the-sake-of-what/