Chris Taylor - Winning Habits

You say you will but will you?

‘I’ll do that tomorrow’, ‘I’m going to do that next week’, ‘Oh yes I’ll get round to that soon’, ‘I’ll call you next week’, ‘I’ll have that report to you by Wednesday Mr Smith’.

At the same time your little voice is slapping you on the forehead with a wet gurnard saying ‘No you won’t!’ Why is that? Well, in short, your internal world and external world are in conflict. There. Easy. Well actually…

Can you be accountable?

Coach:         OK Ian in a moment I am going to ask you about your tasks for this week (positioning statement)

Coachee:     OK

Other discussion takes place for a few minutes.

Coach:         Right Ian how did you get on this week with those tasks which you said the end of our session were important in moving towards your goals. What did you learn?

Coachee:     Nothing, cos, err, I didn’t do them…

I have been asked recently to run a series of workshops for 65 staff on values. This is stuff I love. Why?

because if we are not living and doing stuff that we really value, what is the meaning in there for living a fulfilling existence?

But what actually are values? Well, there are many definitions out there. I like this one:

Your personal ideas about what is important and not important, what is…

When the going gets tough (because it will)…From NZBusiness / Management Magazine, May 2016

When the Going Gets Tough. What a song. 1986. O’Levels for me in UK along with ‘first love’ (aahh). That man Billy Ocean. Remember him? Didn’t he have it going on at this time? Here is a lyrical excerpt:

I got something to tell you I got something to say I’m gonna put this dream in motion Never let nothing stand in my way When the going gets touch The tough get going

What do you take from this?…

Most people make zero changes after reading books. Why?

Interesting eh.

Yeah I’m reading this personal development book at the moment..

Sound familiar?

Your balloon and needle

I view making changes in your life as a needle inside a balloon. The balloon is your world and is fully inflated. Could be any colour, doesn’t matter. The wall of the balloon is the meniscus of your comfort zone. Trick is, for change, you need to puncture that wall, through…

A brief bus tour of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)

So on Easter Sunday I held my NLP practitioners Certificate aloft care of the remarkable Dr Richard Bolstad. Yay.

Eighteen days in a room with fellow compatriots, assistants, and the steady hand of Richard at the helm.

150 hrs of interactive training.

Wowee.

What’s it all about?

Well..in a nutshell:

If sh@t works, keep doing it

It sh@t works, it works. Don’t question the how or even the origin of…

‘Hi it’s Chris here, please don’t leave me a voice message..’

Why would I do that? (I don’t by the way).

But some people do.

Some people I know.

A tradesman I called today said ‘Don’t leave me a voice message as I am hopeless at checking my voice messages’. Admirable and earnest-honest on one level but does that build trust?

Who’s agenda is this?

Imagine your Client / Customer / Prospect (‘ crazy and introduce a mnemonic for this – CCPs) WANTS to talk to…

E mail: what sucks and what doesn’t

E mail eh.

Great.

Lets get the sucks out of the way

Much of the time I’m not a great fan of our E mail friend. Here’s why:

it is a functional, written word medium

it is a zero energy medium

it is a zero empathy medium

you cannot learn anything about the other person(s) or recipients in the medium

you risk upsetting the other person from time to time. You cannot reason in and through the medium.

OK

It’s a numbers game, just like popcorn..

Business is about numbers.

Not the P&L. Well, not chiefly.

The numbers are those who buy.

At some stage.

I see a new business, for example, like a big pan of popcorn. You fill the pan with kernels, then add a little heat. The heat is your sincere, value added touches to your qualified prospects.

Then you add a little more heat.

And a bit more.

And a bit more.

Then..

POP!

Someone buys. Hooray!

Tri…

Whistle stop habits guide

Habits?

We are all our habits. You know that, don’t you?

But prey how to change?

Mm..

Well, I’ve been in this space a while now, this is my take, in a short black kind of way:

Be brutally honest

With yourself, with your lifestyle choices, even with the folk you hang around with. Most people know what to do but they are not doing it, they kid themselves. It is very easy to do this. Some are…

Your business is like mountain biking..Part II

A year or so I wrote a blog about mountain biking and the parallels with your business. Search it out if you like.

Last weekend the ride that prompted this blog, the St James Walkway (near Hanmer Springs) I did again. But this time something was different.

It was harder.

Much harder.

Why?

Well, without going down excuse alley, I hadn’t put in ‘the hard yards’. Yes, the training. A mate of mine,…

Busy? (oo which answer shall I give??..)

Busy?

Mm..

That ‘busy question’. Comes up so much today it is worth a capital B: Busy.

Mm..

Busy.

Deep irony

There is what I would call a deep-seated societal irony at play here, at least here in NZ. It lurks and lurches around but it is here, no doubt (to my way of thinking anyway) and most of the time it is a covert little animal. Bit of a weasel in truth, sneaky.

It’s effects are varied on…

Oh dear..my golf habit

Played golf today with a mate.

Started well in long trousers and no cap in searing heat, oops, prep 4/10. Had my water bottle though so all was not lost. 4 1/2 / 10.

Anyhow like anything else in life including hitting the little white one, to increase your level of performance (in this case carding low scores) your game needs to become (more) habitual. Remember habits are what you consistently…

New Year..New You? or Same Old You?

Well here we are again, January, its ‘resolution time’. Yay.

But what does that phrase mean for you, deep down?

Lip service..

Setting some awesome annual goals.. [I just read Mark Cavendish, the UK cyclist, lay his out today in the public media forum. He’s going public / social contract route. Awesome option]

‘Going along with it, cos the Mrs says it’s a ‘good idea’..

‘Trying’ to give up smoking..

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