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What Does YOUR Practice Make Possible?

I had an amazing workout with my fitness coach this morning.  Actually, Kimberly is more of a “transformation coach” than a fitness coach. (That’s her on the left, of course.) She has a very interactive mind/body/spirit approach so our time together is a fabulous combination of hard physical activity (she’s teaching me to HIT things so [...]

Will You Allow Yourself to BE?

When the delightful and insightful Ava Diamond shared  the picture above, taken with her brand new camera at Fossil Creek Reservoir in Colorado, the words that came to me were from the soundtrack from Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the movie. (Neil Diamond’s voice at its most spectacular, images that take your heart soaring and plummeting and spinning dizzy into [...]

Is that ALL That You Yam? – Daily Dose of Dynamite

This is one of my favorites from the “Dream it – Plan it – Work it – Live it” deck. The King of Clubs… “Are you using ‘I am what I am’ as an excuse for being less than you can be?” “I yam what I yam and that’s all that I yam.” One of [...]

Daily Dose of Dynamite

From the “Dream it – Plan it – Work it – Live it” Deck. Ace of Clubs “We often discover our hidden power only when we need it to recover from failure.”

A Classic Example of Go-Givers Sell More

In the two years I have been coaching and teaching the Five Laws of Stratospheric Success from The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann the most common comment I hear is “that book made me cry, it is EXACTLY how I want to live and do business.” The next thing I usually hear [...]

Who’s Got Your Happy?

Any time a theme presents itself through multiple converstaions on multiple occasions over a short period of time I figure it’s either a universal element in the human experience or I have become sensitive to it because there is a lesson there I need to learn. Yeah – you’re right. It’s probably both. So some [...]

What is JOY worth?

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy” Thich Nhat Hanh Picture this; you stop for a cup of coffee, tired from a long day followed by a short night, stressed and in a hurry – you just need that cup of joe. [...]

The Raging Holiday Debate

As we again approach the end of the year we enter into the notorious “holiday season.” This year it seems, more than any year I remember, the debate over the appropriate holiday well wishes is front and center everywhere I look. Now maybe it has to do with where I look – Facebook groups, twitter [...]

Believing in Greatness

  Last week I got to do something I had only dreamed of doing; I delivered a keynote for Build Your Own Brand, an event that showcased three of my greatest heroes, two as the featured speakers and one as the Master of Ceremonies. It was in my own city so I got to deliver [...]

Coaches, Mentors and Magic Dragons

NOTE: This video references a Facebook page which has now been moved to http://www.facebook.com/DixieDynamiteCoaching – come join us! Last month I asked my twitter community to weigh in on a discussion I was having with myself: “What is the difference between a coach and a mentor?” I’ve been called both – I’ve also been a [...]