Tom Rohrer - Success Works Coaching

Tom Rohrer
PhD, MFT

Mailing Address
1250-I Newell Ave., No. 225
Walnut Creek, CA 94596

925-595-6433
Email:drtom@success
workscoaching.com
Web:www.successworks
coaching.com and
www.tomrohrer.com

As a performance coach and the owner of Success Works Coaching, Tom works with individuals, groups and businesses on a range of human performance issues.

Tom will help you get clarity on your goals and provide strategies to achieve them, while keeping a balanced and healthy lifestyle. Coaching will help you increase your happiness, health and success.

Through coaching, Tom will help you uncover your cognitive, emotional and psychological obstacles, develop your best personal structure and the strategies and tools for developing your optimum performance.

Focuses:
  * Building Resilience
  * Authentic Happiness
  * Conflict Resolution
  * Public Speaking
  * Sports Performance
  * Test/Evaluation Anxiety

For more information about Success Works Coaching visit www.success
workscoaching.com and
www.tomrohrer.com

925-595-6433
Email:drtom@success
workscoaching.com

September 2009

In This Issue
May you feel inspired to reach new heights in your worklife and find more rejuvenation from your downtime. As you read through the articles this month, please don't hesitate to call if I can help.

Article: Thinking Like an Entrepreneur (within the Corporate Walls)
Article: Claiming the Empty Spaces: The Importance of Idle Time in a Fast-Forward World
Beyond the Box
Relevant Reading
Today's Quote

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Thinking Like an Entrepreneur (within the Corporate Walls)
The words entrepreneur and corporation don't usually show up in the same sentence. One connotes a penchant for creative, seat-of-the-pants risk-taking, while the other usually suggests "we've always done it this way" risk aversion.

But "out-of-the-box" thinking is more necessary than ever in today's marketplace, as corporations respond to changes in the world economy. Professionals working within corporations are being increasingly rewarded for using entrepreneurial skills to meet challenges in innovative ways.
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Cartoon Claiming the Empty Spaces:
The Importance of Idle Time in a Fast-Forward World
"What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare."
~W. H. Davies

You're just about to leave for your dentist appointment, when you receive a phone call saying the dentist has been called out on emergency and will have to reschedule your appointment.

Congratulations! You are the winner of one unexpected free hour!

What will you do with your winnings?

Answer your email? Return to the project you were working on before you had to leave? Pay bills? Return phone calls?

Ever consider doing nothing?

If you're like many of us today, the thought of doing absolutely nothing for an entire hour seems as wasteful as throwing a week's worth of groceries out with the garbage. Indeed, free time with nothing to do can generate near panic among some of us who are overloaded and time-starved.
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The following questions are designed to broaden perspectives, to open vistas, to widen the lens. There is no one right way to approach them. You can journal about them, talk to friends, create art, ponder them while driving, work out to them--whatever helps you explore "outside the box."

What change do you want to create in your organization?
What do you want to be known for in your organization?
What boundaries do you perceive as limiting you?
What change in yourself are you willing to be accountable for?
What risk are you willing to take to bring an idea forward?
What values would you be honoring if you took 30 minutes of do-nothing time EVERY day?
What is getting done on the inside when you are doing nothing on the outside?

Relevant Reading

Leaders at All Levels, Deepening Your Talent Pool to Solve the Succession Crisis, by Ram Charan

The Marketing Accountability Imperative, by Michael E. Dunn and Chris Halsall

Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It, by Tony Davila, Marc J. Epstein, and Robert Shelton

Today's Quote
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."
~Martha Graham