Listen to the most recent episode of my podcast: Leveraging Motivators https://anchor.fm/shawn-ward/episodes/Leveraging-Motivators-e2v7nh To achieve our best chance of overcoming approach avoidance we need to understand striking a healthy balance between intrinsic and extrinsic motivators. Bringing more awareness to our foundational personal values and anchoring into intrinsic motivations that come from those most personal values will... Continue Reading →
Multiplication is My Kind of Math
All-in. How much are we invested in what we want? Surface level isn't going to cut it. Just a little isn't going to cut it. Our whole selves, that's getting closer. Average, again, not going to cut it. Our success and achieving what we want for the new year is going to require more than... Continue Reading →
Quote Roulette #5
"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me." - Jim ValvanoThis week's roulette has a very special meaning to me. Both my fathers, my actual father and my step-father are no longer here. But what they shared with me while on this planet is something that I... Continue Reading →
Quote Roulette #4
" The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."Anna Quindlen Perfection can have a place in our work and life. But not at the expense of giving up our identity and what makes us who we are. It's really hard not... Continue Reading →
The Gifts in Your Life
Your part of a tribe and might not even realize it. If your working for a company, you're part of a tribe. If your going to the gym semi-regular, you're part of a tribe. The tribe itself is not the cool part. It's what they can provide for you and what you are responsible for... Continue Reading →
Quote Roulette #2
"A coach asked me at one point in my boxing career if I wanted to be the next Muhammad Ali. Do I wanna do that? I said I did. The coach said, 'Okay. Is that a dream or a goal? Because there's a difference. Because a dream is something you fantasize about that will probably... Continue Reading →
Exhaustive Innovation
"It is more effective to design an environment where you don't need willpower than to rely on willpower to conquer your environment." - James ClearForcing things to happen is not a great thing. We break things that way. You can create a culture and lead a culture that is intentional in innovating. To say I... Continue Reading →
No Regrets, Ever
Do you have any regrets? We spend at times in our lives keeping a backpack of enormous guilt that we might have left something on the table. Who doesn't want to just make some better decisions to trust their intuition and just swing for the fences? There are parts of us that we need to... Continue Reading →
Paveant, The Ghost
Fear when understood can shape us and sharpen us. It also, if we let it, can be what stands between us and the brilliance of an unlock. Inner fear is one of the most career/personal limiting factors we can face. The ghost of something completely horrible that is going to happen as a consequence of... Continue Reading →
