https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10155810192902687/ 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…
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https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10155795472787687/ 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…
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https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10155780308607687/ 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…
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https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10155766453477687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #050 - Yes, we are all going to die. And that is a good thing! I was gobsmacked when I learned that the first person likely to live to 150 years old is already living on this planet! Even though we have, through medical advancements and understanding of…
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https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10155750897332687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #049 - Stop talking. Start walking. One of my 2nd grade teachers called me "The Mouth of the South." (It may have actually been written on a report card!) That was a well-deserved nickname, I assure you. I could, and still can, talk a good game. In fact,…
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https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10155737066712687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #048 - I hate this question! The fact that I hate it tells me it's important to be with it, to ponder it, to steep in it, and, eventually, to answer it. So while I do all that, let me ask you the question: "A year from now,…
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https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10155723003337687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #047 - Get goal-setting "just right" ... For me, there is a zen to setting goals. Do you set them accessibly low, impossibly high, or artfully in balance? Regardless of the answer, the underlying motivation is important, because, as Michelangelo pointed out: "The problem human beings face is…
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https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10155708268547687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #046 - I love hate mail? Finding the joy in receiving hate mail (or any criticism, for that matter) takes some serious reframing. At first, each and every criticism lands on my skin like a bloodied whip. I'm prone to take it personally. Or at least I was…
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Episode 045: [One] who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.
https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10155693983912687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #045 - Don't compound the damage! I can't say that I love making mistakes. In fact, I don't love making them. Yes, I do get that mistakes are the fertile ground of learning so I'm OK with making them ... especially while holding to my goal to "Make…
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https://www.facebook.com/david.taylorklaus/videos/10155679341892687/ Mindset Mondays with DTK - Ep #044 - Comfort? Bah, humbug! What's so enticing about staying in a comfort zone? Ummm. DUH! It's comfortable! I don't have to stretch, work hard, grow, fail, flail, or fly! I can essentially melt into my favorite couch, flip on Netflix, and shut off my brain... Inertia wins…
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