One mind is good: mastermind is better

We want you to succeed in your 2011 goals. So we're not messing around. We’re going mastermind.

This is a brand new offering – just in time to help you make your 2011 goals ACTUALLY happen! You get all of Rhonda’s skill as a 1-on-1 coach with the added benefit of peers to support and challenge you.

Traditionally, mastermind groups act like a personal board of directors, guiding, coaching and assisting you to achieve your goals. In this model, Rhonda enhances this mastermind experience as the facilitator and coach. There will be 5 members in each mastermind group. In every 1 hour telephone session members will each have a chance to be laser coached 1-on-1 by Rhonda. And they will have the added benefit of building new peer networks that can remain supportive for months or years after the coaching program wraps up. Individuals will be matched with mastermind participants with similar goals and challenges. Or bring a group of friends or colleagues along and Rhonda will structure a group just for you. This is the year. It’s finally time to put action to the goals you’ve been mulling over. It’s time.

Because this mastermind coaching is offered in a group setting the cost is far less than 1-on-1 coaching. You each pay only $1440 for 6 months of mastermind coaching. Groups will meet by telephone for 1 hour, twice each month. You'll create your personal rituals for success and engrain them as lifelong habits through the program.

So...what are you waiting for? Email Rhonda today to get started or call 250-712-0085.

Forget resolutions! It’s time to stop “trying” and start DOING what will make you wildly effective and deeply satisfied.

Special welcome to new readers from the Vancouver Island Leadership Conference, ICBC staff and the team of Carma Developers who gathered in Calgary. It was an honor to present to your conferences over the past few months! If you want to check out past issues click here for archives and read more client stories in our blog.

Resolutions don't work, because resolve isn't enough

How high performers make changes in the new year and all year

I don’t have a crash story of my own. I’ve never died for a few minutes on a hospital table. I’ve never passed out at my desk with pure exhaustion from burnout.

No. My story is less dramatic. My big moment of realization came 5 weeks ago when I took a nap.

You see I'd been trying to set my New Year’s goals. I had resolve but no energy. So I took a nap. It didn't help - it only made me realize how utterly exhausted I really was. And I decided that needed to change. I needed to create a ritual for my energy.

Where is your energy at? Really? Close your eyes for the next 5 seconds and sink into it.

After more than a decade of coaching people in the rituals of high performance I’ve learned something about how they achieve great things year after year. They don’t manage their time. They manage their energy.

They don’t set resolutions. Because resolve isn’t enough. They set rituals.

A ritual is not a resolution. It’s not a habit. It’s more than that. It’s so engrained that you don’t even need to think about it, thus reserving energy for greater things.

According to Schwartz and Loehr, authors of The Power of Full Engagement, the prime example of a ritual is brushing my teeth: I do it absolutely every day, right after I eat my oatmeal and right before bed. I’ve never started the day wondering, “Will I brush my teeth today? Will there be time?” It’s an absolute, so I need not waste mental energy asking those questions: it’s a ritual.

But I have asked each of those questions about resolutions. About exercise. About working ON my business not in it. About being fully present at work or at home. For those things I’ve had resolve, but no absolute ritual.

So today we’re going to create an energy ritual. Next month we’ll explore focus rituals. Then visionary rituals and relationship rituals. These are my 4 rituals of high performance. They will cause you to stop trying…and start doing the things that make you wildly effective and deeply satisfied [that’s what high performance is really all about].

If this is going to work you need to critically think about when and where this ritual will fit your life BEFORE committing to it. Ask yourself:
- What makes my energy crash and burn? What ritual could curb that?
- What makes my energy surge? What ritual could inject more of that?
- What do I moan about missing in my life that used to energize me? What ritual could bring that back into present-day life (considering my new commitments)?

Now commit to just ONE new ritual that will be as absolute as brushing your teeth. And tell someone about it: up the accountability.

Speaking of staying accountable, would it help if you had a coach AND a mastermind group to help you implement your rituals? I’m leading a series of mastermind groups starting this month. If you’ve always thought you’d like to be coached, but can’t afford the 1-on-1 model of coaching, this is perfect for you! Read the side bar to the left or click here to learn more.

I want to hear your energy rituals and share mine - check out the blog: From scramble to sprint: the rituals that energize me.

This is the year to stop trying and start doing what's most important. Resolve isn't enough. Can you really afford to wait any longer?

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