Posts tagged ‘commitment’

I am excited to announce an upcoming teleseminar with one of the most visionary thinkers about the way we work today.

On February 27^th at 12:15 Pacific, join me for a chat with award-winning author, leader, and speaker Pam Slim, where we will discuss the topic:

Test Often and Fail Fast: The Art of Rapid Deployment to Quickstart Your Business.

This is a rare opportunity to chat with Pam in a teleseminar where you can ask questions and listen to her words of wisdom that will inspire you to start or move your business forward with actionable, realistic steps.

Ask yourself: How often do you get a great idea to create a new project, or write a book, or start a new business venture, but never do anything about it? Most people have a big problem translating a big idea into feasible, actionable and most importantly, tiny steps. In this interview, Pamela Slim will teach you how to get a jump-start on bringing your big ideas to life by testing often and failing fast, creating rapid prototypes and surrounding yourself with strong peer mentors.

This teleseminar is open to all, at no charge, but you must register as we have limited spaces available. There will be a recording of the session available to those who signed up and to members of Career Gold Club.

This interview with Pam is an example of the types of leaders and innovators that we feature in Career Gold Club, a comprehensive resource for busy professionals seeking success in their careers and joy in their lives. To learn more about how to join and the benefits of Club membership, check out the Career Gold Club site.

If you want to learn how to move beyond the stumbling blocks that keep you stalled in idea mode to a place of taking action, then you won’t want to miss this teleseminar with Pam Slim.

Don’t miss the opportunity to get a jump-start on bringing your ideas to life with Pam Slim. Follow this link to sign up for the teleseminar now!

About Pamela Slim

Pamela Slim is an award-winning author, speaker and leader in the new world of work. She spent the first 10 years of her solo practice as a consultant to large corporations such as Hewlett-Packard, Charles Schwab and Cisco Systems, where she worked with thousands of employees, managers and executives. In 2005, she started the Escape from Cubicle Nation blog, which is one of the top career and business sites on the web. She has coached thousands of budding entrepreneurs, in businesses ranging from martial art studios to software start-ups.

Pam is frequently quoted as a business expert in press such as The New York Times,The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Information Week, Money Magazine and Psychology Today. She is a proud suburban mom in Mesa, AZ , who enjoys the look on people’s faces when she tells them she is also a brown belt in Mixed Martial Arts (it comes in handy when fighting for the last good bunch of kale at the grocery store).

Yesterday, Double gold medalist and American gymnast Gabby Douglas bravely climbed up a second time onto the Olympic balance beam, after slipping mid-performance and dashing her hopes for additional medals from these games.
 
As America led out a collective sigh of disappointment, she bravely made her way through the rest of the routine and walked off the floor.
 
My heart went out to her.
 

Athletes like Gabby have their moment to shine.
 
Sometimes they do brilliantly; other times, they crash and burn…
 
…Just as we all do, in our lives, careers and relationships.
 
It occurs to me that we have an advantage over Olympic athletes…
 

Yesterday I barely made it to Zumba class.

As the 5:30pm class time approached I kept glancing at the clock.

At 4:45pm I told myself that I needed to get my workout clothes on.

I didn’t move.

At 5:00pm, I reminded myself to get up and get dressed because I needed to leave in 15 minutes. Instead, I continued to be rooted in my chair, trying to figure out how to get some video files off my camera and onto the computer. Not an urgent task but one I wanted to finish in order to feel a sense of completion for the day.

At 5:15pm I told myself if I didn’t leave this exact moment I would not be able to find a spot in the class.

I still did not move.

At 5:25pm I realized, with a mixture of relief and regret…

I just finished doing something really scary…


…and I have never felt so alive!


For the past year, I have been in the process of upgrading my coaching credential from Associate to Professional level. It has involved logging hundreds of hours of coaching experience, submitting a detailed application including client and mentor coaching references and completing a three-part exam. The written and recorded coaching exams I completed about nine months ago; they were both doozies.


And this past Friday…