Tag Archive 'decision-making'

Nov 03 2008

Do It Your Way

Published by Tom Volkar under Business Startup

Herd mentality works best for the lead bull. If you base your decisions on what others are doing then at best you’ll create a poor imitation of what has worked well for them. That’s not good enough for you and you know it.

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Oct 27 2008

Clarity Empowers Progress

Published by Tom Volkar under Career Coaching

When we are crystal clear about where we are and where we want to be, we create less stress and more often hit targeted objectives. It’s darn hard to find our true calling when we aren’t willing to be clear and specific about how we want our life’s work to be.

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36 responses so far

Sep 03 2008

I’m Not Ready Yet

Often an employee who wants the freedom of being her own boss will make a statement about her lack of readiness. Have you considered what makes us ready or not? Readiness is a self-described, subjective state of being that is not usually given the consideration it deserves.

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Aug 29 2008

Time to Walk Away?

Published by Tom Volkar under Coach Your Life

One of the most challenging aspects of career transitioning from work that feels like work, to work that you love, is temporarily letting go of the money. It’s just as challenging, when you’re already self-employed and transitioning from an established income stream to one that’s more delightful but temporarily less lucrative.

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20 responses so far

Aug 25 2008

How to Honor Your Commitments

Published by Tom Volkar under Coach Your Life

The secret to honoring your commitments is to commit in full conscious understanding of both the value of success and the consequences of dishonoring your commitment.

Commitment is not a seed that you can bury and forget about. The successful development of commitment requires the care of conscious wisdom and the honor of high self-regard.

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Aug 06 2008

“Whatever” Sucks - Commitment Rocks

Published by Tom Volkar under Coach Your Life

How might your life change if you truly, deeply committed to every decision you made?

Have you noticed that more and more people are trying to skate by with a lack of commitment to anything? Rather than thinking, deciding and committing, many seem to take what they think is the easy way out - avoiding, procrastinating and riding the fence.

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26 responses so far

Jul 07 2008

What’s Good About Being Challenged?

Published by Tom Volkar under Coach Your Life

I just read a powerfully stimulating post by Slade Roberson at Shift Your Spirits. Read his latest post, What’s Wrong with What You Want?
Slade said, “Your most challenging moments are what defines you — your senses of empowerment and spiritual development become most apparent during the tests, trials, and tribulations.”
I believe he’s suggesting that when [...]

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Feb 21 2008

Are You Sure You’re on the Right Path?

Published by Tom Volkar under Career Discovery

To successfully reach an objective, we need to clearly know our exact destination and our exact starting point. Most do well enough choosing a destination. But when it comes to the starting point, have you ever started walking down the wrong path because you really weren’t sure where you were?
Can we get to where we [...]

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Feb 04 2008

Answer this Question and Change Your Life

Published by Tom Volkar under Coach Your Life

What really matters to me that I’m not doing anything about?
You might as well pause right here and answer before reading on. It’s such a significant challenge to self-truth. Just the whisper of it will come back to haunt you if you don’t acknowledge your answer right now.
So what did you come up with? [...]

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Oct 13 2007

Screw Going Back to School

How many times have you heard this from confused folks who have yet to find their true calling?
“I’m thinking about going back to school.”
Screw that! Why? Because the odds are excellent that more education and/or additional credentialing isn’t necessary to get to the level of success, freedom and work fulfillment that you desire.
I’m not anti-education. [...]

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