"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
~ Jim Rohn
We live in the age of constant change, even more constant desire, and to top it all off, short attention spans.
One minute you are up and then next minute... you begin to read something and are then deluged with so many pop-ups, pop-downs, beepers and so on- by the time you get to the next paragraph you already forgot what it is all about...
Powerful coaching is not about "wow" all day long, it IS about finding that point of motivation in you, that point where inspiration comes in and THEN.... building a relationship that links the habit to the goal to the motivation.
That is why great people have coaches next to them to do great things that are way out of the comfort zone.
Add motivation to habit and you will see where it takes you!
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
There is Money. There is Life. Better know the difference between the two.
Tell me, when was it exactly that people began to forget that we make money to live and not live to make money?!
Wherever I look, hear or read there is always some item about some millionaire who fell apart at the seams through reckless investments or behavior, some "ordinary guy" who traded his friends, family or trust of others to make a quick buck, or some unfortunate human being who worked himself sick about getting promoted, or getting more stock options, or making that deal which did not come around in the end.
Doctors' offices, therapists clinics, coaching rooms, pubs and a whole bunch of other places are full of them, those people who somehow got the horse and the carriage mixed up, what comes first and what follows…
I don't blame them, just pity their souls because they seem to have suffered so much by the influence of culture which has totally gone berserk in living for and around material goods, status and "looking good".
And there are so many of them, and you know what? This "philosophy of life", if you might call it that, is deeply engrained in most of us, because most of us are really trapped inside it.
We don't always know it but we probably are.
It is not that material goods have anything wrong with them by nature, we all need and feel good with some of them at one level or another, but it's just that the cost of living, the competition, the globalization, the excessive lack of time has produced this "monster" and it is all about working for, amassing more, getting more of it…while the real limiting factor is not money at all.
It is time.
Time that passes, time that we never regain, time that forever slips away while we are busy with our "stuff".
It seems like every other day I find myself hearing about young people coming down with brain cancer, being killed in accidents on the ground and in the air, contracting some type of disease that will forever change their lives. How sad…
I remember when I first started to visit and eventually come to Israel to live it was not like that.
At least to me in my younger years, this was a country that had its ideals, values and way of life, sure there were always financial struggles and tons of other problems but rampant materialism did not define the culture, it was beside it.
Not so anymore, I'm afraid, Israel has really become a "mini America", in this respect, I miss the "Israel of my youth".
Was it Israel, was it my youth or was it really different at all? Perhaps I will never know.
But one thing I know for sure. Nobody came into this world with money, nobody left it with money and nobody in the world in fifty years from now will remember- let alone care- how much money you made or didn't make while you were here.
So why in God's name are so many of us totally engulfed in the net of materialism that cuts away at our lives, our creativity and at the heart of the relationships that are so dear to us?
Let's welcome a return to voluntary simplicity, it will not make us worse business owners, entrepreneurs, managers, professionals, but will likely make us saner human beings, living better quality of lives for ourselves and whomever we touch around us.
See this article with a former Professor at Harvard Business School, David Corten, who has made quite a journey in this direction….
Replace the Gospel of Money: An Interview With David Korten
What if we measured wealth in terms of life, and how well we serve it?
Wherever I look, hear or read there is always some item about some millionaire who fell apart at the seams through reckless investments or behavior, some "ordinary guy" who traded his friends, family or trust of others to make a quick buck, or some unfortunate human being who worked himself sick about getting promoted, or getting more stock options, or making that deal which did not come around in the end.
Doctors' offices, therapists clinics, coaching rooms, pubs and a whole bunch of other places are full of them, those people who somehow got the horse and the carriage mixed up, what comes first and what follows…
I don't blame them, just pity their souls because they seem to have suffered so much by the influence of culture which has totally gone berserk in living for and around material goods, status and "looking good".
And there are so many of them, and you know what? This "philosophy of life", if you might call it that, is deeply engrained in most of us, because most of us are really trapped inside it.
We don't always know it but we probably are.
It is not that material goods have anything wrong with them by nature, we all need and feel good with some of them at one level or another, but it's just that the cost of living, the competition, the globalization, the excessive lack of time has produced this "monster" and it is all about working for, amassing more, getting more of it…while the real limiting factor is not money at all.
It is time.
Time that passes, time that we never regain, time that forever slips away while we are busy with our "stuff".
It seems like every other day I find myself hearing about young people coming down with brain cancer, being killed in accidents on the ground and in the air, contracting some type of disease that will forever change their lives. How sad…
I remember when I first started to visit and eventually come to Israel to live it was not like that.
At least to me in my younger years, this was a country that had its ideals, values and way of life, sure there were always financial struggles and tons of other problems but rampant materialism did not define the culture, it was beside it.
Not so anymore, I'm afraid, Israel has really become a "mini America", in this respect, I miss the "Israel of my youth".
Was it Israel, was it my youth or was it really different at all? Perhaps I will never know.
But one thing I know for sure. Nobody came into this world with money, nobody left it with money and nobody in the world in fifty years from now will remember- let alone care- how much money you made or didn't make while you were here.
So why in God's name are so many of us totally engulfed in the net of materialism that cuts away at our lives, our creativity and at the heart of the relationships that are so dear to us?
Let's welcome a return to voluntary simplicity, it will not make us worse business owners, entrepreneurs, managers, professionals, but will likely make us saner human beings, living better quality of lives for ourselves and whomever we touch around us.
See this article with a former Professor at Harvard Business School, David Corten, who has made quite a journey in this direction….
Replace the Gospel of Money: An Interview With David Korten
What if we measured wealth in terms of life, and how well we serve it?
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