Tips & Insights for Top Performance

Share your treasure.

Encourage youth.

Manifest your loyalty to others in word and deed.

Keep your promises.

Nurture your appetite for learning.

Find the time.

Be thankful for your life and the opportunities ahead.

Believe in yourself.

Try to forgive.

Offer your hand to those who struggle.

Listen.

Hug tightly the good times.

Respond to adversity with determination and confidence.

Apologize if you were wrong.

Don’t look down on others unless you are trying to lift them up.

Skip the bandwagon.

Against all pressure, try to do what you know is right.

Reach out.

Try to understand.

Express your appreciation.

Do NOT assume.

Replace despair with action.

Recognize that you know very little and you will instantly increase your intelligence.

Examine your demands on others.

Do not judge.

Be kind, be gentle – but stand your ground.

Laugh a little. Laugh a little more.

Work hard – deserve confidence. Take nothing for granted.

Be tenacious in pursuit of your most cherished dreams.

Reject incompetence and identify it as such.

Use your experience to help others treading in new waters.

Take care of your spirit.

Give no quarter to injustice and stand up to its perpetrators.

Settle only for your best.

Search for the truth – don’t let others define it for you.

Don’t let others define you.

Examine your motives.

Care for the animals.

Welcome a stranger.

Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth –

Take part in its preservation.

Gladden the heart of a child.

Live each moment – fully.

Speak your love.

Speak it again.

Speak it still once again.

________________

Dickey Eason

www.theimpacts.com

Christy Geiger, Executive Business Coach & Trainer, Minneapolis, MN

I asked some of the successful and talented business owners and professionals I know, what they consider their key to success… here is what they said…..

“Successful people are always pursuing balance in their life. There are only so many hours in a day and it is important to prioritize every aspect of our lives instead of just our business lives. Family, marriage, spirituality, health, volunteering, etc. are all the components of a successful person – in business and in life. If you are lucky enough to pursue what you love then you will see success follow. People will want to be part of that success.”

Lois Cozart, Owner
My Girlfriend’s Closet
www.mygirlfriendsclosetnc.com

Christy Geiger, Executive Business Coach & Trainer, Minneapolis, MN

“No matter what else you have or do not have, you have the beautiful experience of life. No matter what may have happened before, or what might come next, you have this moment. 

Now is when you can make it count. Now is when you are connected with unbounded opportunities to make a positive difference. 

Don’t waste your time complaining about what you lack or worrying about what you might lose. Invest the best of what you have in this moment to create new value. 

If you choose to be annoyed or resentful, you’ll only drag yourself down. Instead, challenge yourself to be more positive and effective than you’ve ever been, right now. 

Smile at life, even when life has not smiled at you first.

Be the first one to initiate goodness, and you’ll be the first one to benefit from that goodness.

 You are here, and there is nothing to fear. Count your blessings, and before you’re finished counting you’ll have even more.”

 Ralph Marston

Christy Geiger, Executive Business Coach & Trainer,  Minneapolis, MN

With the new year just around the corner, there are all kinds of intentions floating around. But, be it the cold weather or the less than pleasant tasks involved, procrastination quickly sets in and our resolutions are tucked away, never to become a reality.

If you’re ready to take on your resolutions with intention this year, Brian Tracy’s “Eat the Frog!” is the book for you. In his powerful book on overcoming procrastination, Tracy shares 21 ways to organize, prioritize, and move ahead with any project! If this is the year that you’re serious about your resolutions, I highly recommend that you “eat your frog!”

To order this book, click here.

Christy Geiger, Executive Business Coach & Trainer,  Minneapolis, MN

So you get that you need to re-design your life but can’t figure out how? Here are a few places to look.

1)      Your schedule. Write out your schedule. Everything that you are doing, how long it takes, etc. Go back and look at your schedule. What things are contributing to you moving forward in your life and what things are just there, but not really adding value.  Draft a schedule that adds one new block of time to support your success behavior and remove one activity from your schedule that is not moving you forward.

2)      Your habits. What habits do you have? What habits did you used to have that supported you to get what you wanted but you have stopped doing? What habits do you know you need to have to support your success? This might be things like snoozing, sleeping in, working out (or not), too much time in e-mail or social media, etc. What are your habits? What are the habits of successful people in your industry and which ones of them are you doing or not?

3)      Your beliefs and attitude. What are you thinking about your work and life right now? Are those thoughts supportive to where you are trying to head? Considering what you are trying to accomplish?  What do you need to be focused on? Write that out and read it daily.

4)      Your systems. Consider how you have things set up. What allows you to move quickly and efficiently? What do you not have together that slows you down? This might be the tracking of contacts, this might be the sorting of e-mail, your files, ready-made handouts, etc.  Make a list of the systems that you do not have in place that cause procrastination, congestion and poor follow-through. Create a plan to put those systems into place in the next 30 days.

5)      Your support. Think about the people in your life. Are they positive? Are they forward moving? Do they support you? Are you a bottle neck or are you empowering and freeing people up to do their job so you can do yours? People in our lives can zap our energy and cause stagnation. BUT the lack of good people and support can also cause the clogging of progress. When you understand TEAM (together everyone accomplishes more), energy and the use of strengths, you will be positive to others while ensuring you have and leverage a team.

These are a few parts to re-designing your life. In this process you should find some things to keep the same, some things to add, to remove and to change. Have fun!

Christy Geiger, Executive Business Coach & Trainer, Minneapolis, MN