Success Coaching for Men

ATTENTION ALL BUSY PEOPLE, (Yes, that means you!) 
Listen up for a second: I want you to take a ‘time-out’ in your busy, over scheduled, hectic day for 5 minutes to read this.  Take a look at this You Tube video from the movie ‘Coach Carter’ and notice 3 things:

A Time Out is Called - Coach stops the action so [...]

There are a lot of great things about Summer – the weather for one and a lot of people seem happier and more relaxed.  Life is good! Throw some more shrimp on the Barbie and pass me a cold one.
However, if there is one thing I hate about Summer, it is this:
Using Summer as an [...]

A few days ago, we covered the WHAT’s of lack of productivity: http://andrewparkes.me/2009/06/11/not-getting-things-done-the-4-main-whats/ 
At the core, the WHAT is about finding less meaningful, time sucking tasks that make us feel good but drain away valuable time for harder, more impactful activities.
Now, the more important question:
WHY would anyone let a productivity draining behaviour (such as checking e-mail 50 times per day) prevent them from having the [...]

Check this out… according to the Bible, here is what God created on Day 1 and Day 2 in the book of Genesis:

Day 1 – Created Heavens and Earth, created light, separated the light from the darkness – called light ‘day’ and darkness ‘night’
Day 2 – Separated the waters of the earth from the waters of [...]

Yesterday we talked about the 5 WALLS that separate us from our DREAMS. 
 
Today, we will talk about 5 BATTERING RAMS to get through these WALLS… let’s break on through to the other side:
 
Battering Ram #1: YOUR VISION – The faint outline you have of the dream itself.
When you see a tall mountain from a far-away [...]

I recently found a blog posting by Glenn Allsopp (www.pluginid.com) on how visualization can help create success in our lives:  http://www.pluginid.com/21-day-challenge/
 
I have always found visualization to be something that sounds cool but that I could not commit to doing for more than a couple of days before forgetting or thinking it was mechanical and pointless.  However, [...]

Lack of Productivity or Getting Things Done is really about lack of progress or growth.  When we aren’t progressing or growing, we are maintaining the status quo… left too long, this is a great way to become bored, unhappy, and unfulfilled.
Here is what I think are the 4 Major Contributors to lack of productivity… in essence, [...]

What I am committing to over the next 31 days:
I found a cool Blog called PluginID (www.pluginid.com) I am going to implement 2 of the ideas I found there over the next 31 days:
1. The 21 Day Challenge (I am making it 31 days!)
http://www.pluginid.com/21-day-challenge
The basic premise is to find an area of our self-image or [...]