How to Choose a Book Topic That Gets You Seen, Chosen and Well Paid

aka. How To Choose a Book Topic for IMPACTFUL Pros – Coaches, Trainers, Consultants & Independent Service Professionals   Most people who want to write a book don’t get stuck on writing. They get stuck much earlier. They get stuck at the question…  ...

My Favorite Business Growth Strategy for Coaches, Trainers, Consultants & Independent Service Professionals

  aka The Simpler Path to Becoming Seen, Chosen and Well Paid for Your Expertise     “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” — Rumi I hate when people make me choose one. The question inevitably comes, usually in a tone of slight urgency:...

Business Thought Experiment #8 – Why Passion Is Not the Starting Point to Choose Your “Business Thing”

  "Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar." [“Traveler, there is no path; the path is made by walking”]  — Antonio Machado   I see it so often. Brilliant coaches, trainers, consultants, and independent service professionals frozen in business...

Business Thought Experiment #7 – Confidence in Business, Impact and the Next Obvious Step

    A coach I deeply respect recently asked a simple question: What is confidence? Rather than answer it intellectually, I decided to spend a month looking in that direction. What I discovered surprised me.   The more I looked, the less confidence...

Business Thought Experiment #6 – What Impact Remains When AI Can Do Almost Everything

  A question was posed recently that stayed with me: What impact can we have as human beings… that artificial intelligence cannot?   I’ve been sitting with that question. And I want to start from a place of non-fear. Because right now, there’s a lot of noise...

What Bam Can Teach Us About Positioning For High-Value Clients

What Bam Can Teach Us About Positioning For High-Value Clients

Do you ever feel that your good work is meant for more? Do you ever have that nagging feeling that the people you could be helping the most don’t even see you? Most experts’ messages get ignored by the very people ready to invest in solving the very problem that those...

Mother Theresa – A True Example Of A Leading Authority

Mother Theresa – A True Example Of A Leading Authority

There is this “new fad”: we are inundated by people talking about “manufacturing authority”. Their idea is to create something that doesn’t exist. Today I would like to talk about something we all crave, instead: real leadership. When Pope Francis canonized Mother...

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