Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #060 – Don't be a fool.When one craves something enough, one can tend to ignore all obvious evidence against that desire. We fool ourselves. With someone else we might play the skeptic, yet when counseling ourselves, we blindly trust our own judgement. Richard P. Feynman warned us against this:"The…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #059 – Success is a flawed currency.I like success. I do. A lot! It feels food to win, to enroll a new client, to celebrate a client's success, to reach a new income mark, to celebrate 10 years as a coach, and on and on. And it seems a…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #058 – Comfort zones are everywhere!And the most common comfort zone, the one that requires fierce intention and consistent effort to break free of, is the vacuum chamber we all-too-often create by surrounding ourselves with people who always agree with us. Frank A. Clark drove this point home nearly…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #057 – It's only crazy until you do it!Over my nearly three decades as an entrepreneur, it's embarrassing how many times I've thought about, looked at, or even started to plan something out and heard myself saying: "Nope. That's impossible." The fear came up and I just shut down….
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #056 – Escaping is cheating.Upon first reading this quote by Thomas Carlyle, I was torn:"The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss."On the surface, the conversation would be about the things we miss out on while we are dealing with something…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #055 – Learning opportunities rock!The eye rolls come like clockwork! The moment any of my children heard me say "a challenge is just an opportunity for learning" the eyes rolled back in their heads as if in a desperate search for an exit sign behind them. And the mere…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #054 – HINT: It's all around!I remember my first cell phone (it weighed a ton), the woman who sold it to me (Mara Valeney), the time it took to install it in my car (three hours!), and the damned price tag (I wish I didn't remember that one). Despite…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #053 – Who's in your corner?Over the last 3 decades of entrepreneurship, I've received tons of advice. Some was timely and brilliant. Like in 2006 when the CEO of Herrmann International told me that my partner and I needed to hire an executive assistant. Wow. I've told Ann Herrmann-Nehdi…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #052 – Just three ingredients!"Failure is inevitable. Quitting is a choice." True? Yes. New? NO! And after 3 decades as an entrepreneur, I have heard it so many times and in so many ways (and attributed to so many people) that I'm bored by it!The inevitability of failure is…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #051 – Choose excellence!My youngest son, a high-school senior, is evidently quite the Stoic. He started off our morning by asking me “Why does this consciousness have to have a flesh vessel?” There are so many things I could have said … the best I could muster in the…
