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Category Archives: Performance Optimization
It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be
I’m a big fan of Paul Arden and his book It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be. Arden, who died in 2008, was the Executive Creative Director for advertising firm Saatchi and Saatchi from … Continue reading
Giving Great Feedback
There are many theories, an entire body of research, and a whole lot of opinions about giving and receiving feedback. We’re all looking for the answer to this important question: What makes feedback great? Here’s my opinion about the answers … Continue reading
How Thinking About Mastery Can Make You Happy or Unhappy
I just read a terrific article by Joe Pinsker in the Atlantic: “Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy.” Pretty provocative title, and there’s a specific aspect of this happiness (whether for smart people or for anyone else) that I … Continue reading
Wise Why’s: Gaining Wisdom from the 7 Why’s
When people come to me for performance coaching, they often have a high level of skill and knowledge already. They’ve usually had some level of success using their skills. Yet, something is missing that is stopping them from achieving the … Continue reading
9 Questions to Ask to Communicate More Effectively
One component of my Ten Minute Virtuoso method for learning and mastering skills is to use simple and quick strategies that have large-scale results. I’m constantly hunting for these easy-to-use strategies to help you achieve your goals and get the … Continue reading
Building Good Habits: What Science Tells Us
When you think of the word “habit,” I’ll bet you instantly think of something bad for you. Smoking, drug use, and binge eating may come to mind. What about good habits? Things like regular exercise, saying “please” and “thank you,” … Continue reading
Do You Need to Protect Your Cognitive Overhead?
Recently, I’ve been seeing the term “cognitive overhead” in a few different places online. I had never heard of this term before, so I looked it up. There are a lot of websites that give the same definition, attributed to … Continue reading
Make More Time: Only Check Email Three Times a Day
Email. Texts. IMs. You are bombarded with communications throughout the day. Some of these communications are actually important, and a whole lot more of them are not important at all. Yet, if you’re like most people, you check email at … Continue reading
Ten Minute Virtuoso Tip: Do One Small Thing Today
I talk to a lot of people who want to: learn a new skill start a new hobby improve a professional skill begin a creative project absorb and retain some new information Nearly all of these people contact me because … Continue reading
How to Protect Your Time
On this blog, I’ve got many suggestions for how to make more time in your day. I include these strategies here because nearly every one of my coaching clients reports that they feel they don’t have enough time in the … Continue reading
