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
In This Issue
This month, may you find ways to inspire yourself and others to aim higher, to be "big." As you read through the articles, please don't hesitate to call if I can help.
Being Big in Your Life--If Not Now, When?
Top 10: Ways to Lead by Example
Beyond the Box
Relevant Reading
Today's Quote
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Being Big in Your Life - If Not Now, When?
Picture a graveyard. Under the big oak tree in the far corner, there's a granite headstone. Look closer. See the name engraved? Yep, it's yours.
So you're sitting here, looking at your own headstone. There's your year of birth, and the year you--heaven forbid--pass. And between them, there's a little, coy hyphen.
Now, here's the good news: that hyphen is what you get to play with.
ON BEING BIG
Let's take a moment to think analytically about that hyphen. There are two things that anyone who aspires to be big must face. The first is knowing what you want to do. Or, in the words of poet Mary Oliver: "Tell me, what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" (We'll get to the second in a moment.)
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Ways to Lead by Example |
Good leaders must lead by example. Through their actions, which are aligned with what they say, they become a person others want to follow. When leaders say one thing but do another, they erode trust, a critical element of productive leadership. Here are 10 of the dozens of ways to lead by example.
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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."
- Which of the four questions in the "Being Big" article did you respond to the most? How do you answer that question?
- Where in your current work could you be bigger?
- If you really let yourself dream big, what would your work and life look like?
- What is your favorite way to lead by example?
- How could you better lead by example at work? in other settings?
Relevant Reading
Now, Discover Your Strengths, by Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton
The Impulse Factor: Why Some of Us Play It Safe and Others Risk It All, by Nick Tasler
Today's Quote
"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."
~Sir Winston Churchill
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