The Annual Crossover Planning Process
As we begin creating 2024, we are presented with the wonderful gifts of reflection, assessment, and the ability to lay the groundwork for a truly amazing new year. I want you to enjoy the holidays, of course, but I also want you to set aside some important time to truly look back at this year, […]
Guest Spotlight: Emanuel Rose, Author of the Wenaha Henry Series
Today, I want to share an episode of the HLP Podcast with you and shine a spotlight on the episode’s guest, Emanuel Rose. Emanuel, who has a background in marketing, is the author of the Wenaha Henry series of children’s books. These excellent stories focus on the beauty of nature, the importance of family, and developing emotional […]
The Power of Maintenance Time
I’m sure you’ve seen great athletes and entertainers perform at their highest levels. They do something that most business people rarely do: they practice. Practice is considered a time waster in business. I think it’s due to a common belief: “I don’t have time to practice, there’s simply too much to get done.” Just imagine […]
In the Realm of a Father
We are here on this earth because of our parents: a mother and father. As we celebrate the Father’s Day holiday, it’s a great opportunity to reflect on what fatherhood means – and what we can learn from it. Maybe you’re a father yourself, but even if you aren’t raising your own children, the role […]
Unf**k Your Stuck
For each and every one of us, life is a wild card. Reality doesn’t care about our expectations and plans, yet we consistently cling to them – then find ourselves stuck, frustrated, and demoralized when actual outcomes don’t match our preconceived ideas. Somewhere inside, we know this already. We know that creative acts are about […]
Being Intentional: From Reactive to Creative
People, as a species, are naturally lazy. We tend to avoid difficulty and gravitate toward what feels good, what’s easy, and what’s automatic. This means that our default mode is often reactive – instead of proactive and creative. In our professional lives, reactive behavior is responding to things as they arise, scrambling around to put […]
10x Every Goal, Huh?
10x thinking is one of the most popular ideas in business and motivational material. It seems to be everywhere you look these days, with the constant push to GROW GROW GROW everything in your life. This “advice” challenges people of all stripes to think bigger, get more, supersize their goals and businesses, and so on. […]
Unpluggability: Making Effort to Make Less Effort
There’s an enormous skill that I call “unpluggability,” and it’s essentially making the effort to make no effort. That’s what it is…. The effort to make no efforts. We have to work really, really hard to shut down our minds and stop thinking about all the things we have to do. In the modern age, […]
Show Up
In the coaching that I do, I often come into contact with the idea of “exposure,” or rather, how the things an individual is exposing themself to influences their thoughts and actions. In my experience with influencing others, I’ve found that exposure is a very key ingredient… Probably THE key ingredient to learning. To learn […]
Accelerate the Path to the Goal
We all want to accelerate toward our goals, but sometimes we create our own impediments. Most of the time it’s something psychological that gets in the way – a barrier of our own design that comes from ignoring vital parts of the creative process. Those vital pieces are (perhaps to your dismay) setbacks, errors, mistakes, […]
