“Get out of your comfort zone.” We’ve all heard this but some people think that there is only one zone beyond “comfort” and they call it “panic” or “freakout”. Bryan Murphy who recently took a seminar from me explains to his students that there are actually three zones to think about. Comfort zone, where no […]
No Regrets. Only Lessons to be Learned.
Regrets are wasted energy. I had a person in one of my online seminars post that she was an oncology nurse early on in her career and was often the last person people spoke to before dying. Many of them shared their regrets with her about: Not taking risks in their lives Not doing jobs […]
Why we all need to “fail forward”.
Failing forward is an entrepreneurial philosophy embracing and learning from failure. Thomas Edison, Wayne Gretzky, Albert Einstein, and Jim Peacock have all had many great failures. The key is to “fail forward”…. learn from your mistakes and don’t be afraid to try something new again. In a recent Inc. magazine, they wrote about a “Failure Church” […]
Failure Makes Me Happy
Failure #1. My very creative son who has been drawing since he could hold a crayon. And at 4 years old on an Etch-A-Sketch created a multi-sail pirate ship that was jaw dropping, and in college majored in Advertising, and who took every new career assessment I wanted to try out and always came […]