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Your Great Unfinished Works, Waiting In The Wings

We all them. Projects, ideas, activities and documents that remain buried in the depths of digital files and the recesses of our brains. Wrapped in time and the story that you’ll get to it one day… Ultimately, it’s the fleshy thing on the end of the mouse that prevents these things from coming into fruition.…

Failing Fast Is The Bravest Way To Progress Forward

Are you failing fast enough? One particularly good failure I learned early on after leaving the military was Craig’s List. I kept hearing about it from friends State-side. So I posted an ad about my Coaching Services. Nice pic and got to road-test my copywriting. Well, I was so pleased and shocked it was so…

Do You Love Creating SMART Goals?

I am so jealous because I don’t like them. And you may be a rare human. Many folks are done with SMART goals. And it’s time to think about goals and planning for them differently. You are more likely to take that action if you have put in the time and effort to think about your goals and why they…

A resilient life is like…

A Texas rodeo… You’ll get thrown off and bloodied… And yet, you keep getting back on that beast, time and time again… I found this blog deep in the depths of the Draft folder. And I can’t even remember if I came up with it or whether I was inspired by its original author. Anyhoo,…

Life Is Not Linear – Choose The Scenic Route

Unlike Time, life is not linear. It has twists and turns. You make plans and the unexpected forces you to re-calculate. Knowing this, some of us might be content with the scenic route. Might we even plan for it on purpose? armed forcesChangeCoachingcreativityleadershiplearningmilitaryPossibilitiesveterans

Challenges Allow us The Time to Adapt to Our New Worlds

The work we get to do is challenging. And that’s good because it shows we care and were willing to go the distance. And along the way, we learn to manage our failures. how we address them and feel about them. If everything was easy everyone would be doing it and it might not feel that fulfilling.  Often something will happen and that forces…

Knowing The Sacrifice Will Help You To See The Consequences

What if you get sidetracked or suffer from shiny object syndrome?  What if you miss out on a great opportunity because you’ve set a different goal?  I know that fear, you set out with all these great intentions and then other stuff keeps getting in your way and distracting you.  Well, the answer to those questions is for you to discover, but what I can say…

What Do You Want From Life After The Military?

So you’ve made the decision and now you’re out on your own.   And normally you crack on but for some reason, your activities just ain’t happening. Now you have to think about yourself and what you want. There’s no military agenda to consider. No promotion board, dream assignment or Book of Reference to guide you. Before you could follow a…

Go-Go-Test And Make Your Goals Happen

Think about that place where you fear to look. What’s the next smallest step you can take to go there? Begin. Right now. Step away from this page and start to do a new daily habit or an action you have been promising yourself you would do. Send an email. Start a new document. Post on social media. Tell someone…