Last year, I got to coach my daughter’s recreation league basketball team. I was really looking forward to it. I knew since I hadn’t coached that age level before that my team probably wouldn’t be as talented as many of the other teams, but I thought we’d be competitive. I was wrong. We lost every game. There were only two games that we had any chance of winning. Most games we got our doors blown off. By the end of…
When I was young, I loved to play sports. Basketball was my favorite, but I liked other games, too. Most of the games I played were pick-up games in the backyard or in the street. One of my friends even painted yard lines on our street so we could play football. But I also played some organized sports. Some of my favorite memories came from playing church-league basketball and softball games. One year, my cousin’s father, Jack Llull, said that…
Every once in a while it’s good to sit back and take a good, long look at life. Here’s a simple, easy way to think about where you are. It’s called the wheel of life. First, draw a circle. Make it plenty big enough to write in. Now divide the circle into eight pieces. You do that by drawing a line straight up and down, then one side by side. That makes four pieces. Then draw two more lines diagonally…
I am often amazed at how techniques I learned in coach training apply to the network marketing profession. Coaches are taught to have no agenda. A coaching session is all about the person being coached. That outlook fits perfectly with network marketing. The best way to help people is to first understand what they need. If we don’t know what they need how can we know how to help them. The best way to understand people is to get to…
Have this ever happened to you: you’re talking to someone, perhaps sharing a matter of deep concern, when you notice they have a far-off look in their eye. When you finish talking the person responds with an odd-sounding anecdote that doesn’t make sense until you realize a slight connection with something you said very early in your remarks. Or worse yet, have you ever been listening to someone when they say something that causes your mind to immediately think of…