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Discipline – Who Do You Admire?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Sun, Jun 5, 2011

Who do you admire most?  This is a question I frequently ask candidates in interviews.  I urge you to consider this question in your interviewing process if you aren’t already using it. 

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Topics: Discipline, rituals, routine

The Key to Improvement – Marshall Goldsmith Houston Growth Summit

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Jun 2, 2011

Whether you’re a business person considering hiring a coach or concerned whether your employees will respond to your coaching there’s just one major factor that determines success.  The biggest challenge Marshall Goldsmith noted is selection.  If they don’t care or you don’t care don’t waste your time.  As a coach or a business owner you can’t change those who don’t want to change.  You can only help if the person you are working with wants to change.   Inner motivation is the key to successful coaching.

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Topics: Discipline, Good to Great, People, Pearsons Law, Jim Collins

Bookend Your Day – Darren Hardy’s Success Discipline

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Wed, May 25, 2011

Since hearing Darren Hardy speak about the Compound Effect and the discipline required for success I’ve been working on establishing the rituals he recommended.  Although I’ve considered myself to be a pretty disciplined person, the disciplines Hardy describes require a tenacity and determination that few are willing to follow.

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Topics: Discipline, Top Priority, priority

Three Success Disciplines – Darren Hardy Houston Growth Summit cont.

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, May 23, 2011

After hearing Darren Hardy of Success Magazine speak I went to Amazon to check out his book The Compound Effect and read the reviews.  It’s interesting to read the negative responses.  Most of them offered that what Hardy offered was nothing new, just a rehash of success formulas and ideas provided in books like Think and Grow Rich, etc.  

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Topics: Discipline, Success, failure

Discipline - Do the Thing You Don’t Want to Do – Hardy Houston Growth Summit Cont.

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, May 19, 2011

Have you answered the following questions yet?

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Topics: Discipline, Success, priorities

Success, It’s Not What You Do – Darren Hardy, Houston Growth Summit

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, May 16, 2011

As publisher of Success Magazine for 15 years, having interviewed countless successful people pursuing his passion to provide his readers with an alternative to the negative news media stories that predominate today’s communication channels, Darren Hardy is an authority on success.  Darren admitted to being a self achievement addict.  He’s discovered there is a big difference between over achievers and super achievers.  The difference however he’s discovered is not what they do.

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Topics: Discipline, One Thing, Success, priorities, Compounding

Discipline – Why Hard Is Good For You. - Rackspace Houston Growth Summit Cont.

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Fri, May 13, 2011

Please forgive the length of my last blog.  Believe it or not it was longer but I edited some things out.  I’m afraid I was suffering from education overload.  Each day we start the Growth Summit at 8 AM.  When that concludes at 4 PM Gazelles coaches gather for another two plus hours in additional education and planning. 

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Topics: Discipline, Net Promoter Score, Core Values, Growth Summit, Brand Promise

Discipline and Persistence Closes the Deal

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, May 5, 2011

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Topics: Discipline, Top Priority, Growth Summit, Sales Discipline

Fifth Key to Discipline Rituals: Support

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Apr 18, 2011

Let’s review the key steps to developing rituals and establishing change and introduce key number five – enlisting support.  Here are the five keys:

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Topics: Discipline, change, leadership, rituals, habits, support

Expect Resistance in Establishing Disciplined Rituals

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Fri, Apr 15, 2011

Have you ever had a hard time establishing a new habit or routine?  As noted in my last blog, Discipline Rituals – What We Resist Persists, we derive a certain amount of comfort or safety doing what we’ve always done. That’s why it’s so difficult to change.  Even the most powerful commitment to change is often counter balanced by an unconscious or subliminal commitment not to change.  Exposing our fears to not changing is key number four in building effective rituals.

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Topics: Discipline, priorities, rituals, routine

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