Saturday Morning Coaching

Prickly or Pleasing. A person's disposition…your disposition, is an important ingredient to your success. Bougainvillea is a pretty enough plant to cover a wall, but it is covered with thorns making it very difficult to shape and handle. I just met a person like the bougainvillea; competent to do their job, but prickly to work with. Do you think this type of behavior helps or hurts them? Today's Handout

Welcome to Saturday Morning Coaching with Coach Davis.  This is Session number 5 in our series on Critical Thinking.  Want to be successful in life?  Then, critical thinking is an essential skill that you can learn.  Do you remember having a class in how to think when you were in school? I don't.  Lots of people tell you what to think, but has anyone worked with you on how to think?  Let's supercharge our thinking with standards of thinking excellence.  Saturday Morning Coaching begins now…

The person who thinks critically can reason and evaluate to make informed decisions and successfully solve problems for a desired outcome.  Caution…within our thinking traps are hidden.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Coaching with Coach Davis.  Lots of people out there want to entertain you, Coach simply wants to help you be successful.  Session number 4 in our series on Critical Thinking, an essential skill that you can learn, begins now.

The hallmark for one who thinks critically is the ability to reason, assess, question, investigate, formulate, calculate, evaluate, and judge to make informed decisions and successfully solve problems for a desired outcome. You have power that controls what happens next…your  future…in your personal life, in your professional life. It is the power to make a decision.  Do you get up or stay in bed?  Do you make your bed or leave it messy?  Do you work or do you idle? Do you stay or do you go?  Small or large, decisions control what happens next.  We have been exploring Critical Thinking and today we focus on the Decision Making Process…a simple road map to guide your thinking.  Saturday Morning begins now.

Your mind is truly yours.  It is an amazing gift.  It directs your life and gives you your results.  If you don’t like what is going on in your life…the decisions you are making…it is time to check your thinking.  Last week we started an exploration of Critical Thinking.  It is so foundational to our success, Coach is spending several sessions on it.  Today we focus on a Critical Thinking Audit…a simple guide for your thinking.  Saturday Morning Coaching begins now.

Your mind is the Central Processing Unit of your life.  Everything you do is controlled by your mind.  You are constantly receiving stimuli, you run it through filters and select what comes into your mind.  Chris Argyrus, former Harvard Professor, called this the ladder of inference.  This is the starting point for how you captain your life.  Saturday Morning Coaching is here to help you have the most successful journey possible.  We begin now…

I just got out of a meeting with the CEO of a mid-size, precision manufacturing company.  His job is to fix the company.  We spent a lot of time discussing the people who report to him and if it is possible to create a team.  What a great question.  Coach is going to bring some insight to you today on the conversations that go on about you.  STARPOWER begins now.

Welcome back to Saturday Morning Coaching---with Coach Davis.  My goal is to inspire and help you succeed.  I firmly believe as Napoleon Hill would say that “thoughts are things.”  All our action, all our action starts with a thought somewhere in our mind.  Someone just said, what about an impulse…or is that manifested from a thought as well?  Let’s just work with “thoughts are things.”  That means they ultimately impact what we do.  Print off today’s handout of the STARPOWER model.  Saturday Morning Coaching begins, now.

Welcome to Saturday Morning Coaching with Coach Davis.  Did you know there are two types of conflict?  One is good to have in an organization the other is not.  One can make things better, the other can hurt you and your reputation.  Get ready for insight that can help you get into positive action.  STARPOWER begins now.

STARPOWER:  Exploring Appreciative Inquiry  Welcome to Saturday Morning Coaching, I’m your host Coach Davis.  Starting today, you will notice the format to be less structured and a little less formal and hopefully a bit more personal.  Welcome, all the faithful people in Columbus, OH.  What a nice turnout each week.  Appreciative Inquiry…heard of it?  STARPOWER starts now.

Recharging your reputation.  As we cruise into the next quarter, it’s time to step back and make sure your reputation is working in your favor.  Research shows that job performance is positively associated with personal reputation for politically skilled people.  Get ready with today’s handout at MyValueTree.com and unlock the keys to thriving in uncertain times when we get back from weather and sports.

Unbeknownst to you, some form of trouble is already in the works that will cause a problem for you at work.  Are you preparing today by making deposits into the “goodwill” bank?  Get the STARPOWER handout at MyValueTree.com  and be ready for the important coaching session that awaits you this weekend right after weather and sports.

Times of transition are popping up all over the place for people.  Early retirement, job loss, death, relationship ending…whatever it is, some sort of change is forcing its way into your life., and the question is, “how will you respond?”  Triumph or tragedy, what will it be?  Get the STARPOWER handout at MyValueTree.com and be ready for today’s coaching right after weather and sports.

Here we are on an Independence Day weekend celebrating freedom from tyranny, yet one of you this morning is letting your dreams be held hostage because you can’t get to “no.”  Living in Hopeville is safe and easy.  Breakout with today’s STARPOWER Coaching right after weather and sports and get your handout at MyValueTree.com .

Just getting through all the issues of today has many of us with our heads down and our elbows up.  It’s so easy to get lost in these details that we get squeezed out of our future.  Is it time for a family strategic plan?  Saturday Morning Coaching is here for you right after weather and sports.  Get today's handout.

We are going to talk about rituals.  They define who we are as a person, a family, a town, a nation. What you do repeatedly, regularly, these are your rituals.  Who do you become when the rituals end?  Saturday Morning Coaching is soon to begin.  Get today’s handout at MyValueTree.com and be ready after weather and sports.

From the archives:  How quickly the year is going.  Remember all your hopes and expectations when the year started?  How’s it going?  Saturday Morning Coaching is here and today we take stock of our progress and learn how to use the trimtab for course correction.  Get the STARPOWER Model at MyValueTree.com and be ready right after weather and sports.

Saturday Morning Coaching is back and today the fifth element in our exploration of “5 to Thrive” will be revealed.  Without it your pursuit of possibilities will wither…in a world of surplus talent you blend right in.  The missing ingredient for your growth is…going to be today’s topic.  Be here right after weather and sports.

How full of a life do you want to live, and for how long?  Today’s STARPOWER coaching explores “becoming more than I believe I can be.”  Get the “5-to-Thrive” handout at MyValuetree.com and meet me right here after weather and sports. 

Quit before you start and save the pain of trying. Let’s master the lower limits of our thinking so that we become disempowered and let other people succeed.  What’s Coach got in store for you today?  Get our “5-to-Thrive” handout at MyValuetree.com and be ready to work right here after weather and sports.        

The world is ready to meet you!  Will it be the new and improved you, or the old and boring you?  If you want new doors opening for you this year, be it relationship or professional, maybe the same old you will only get the same old results.  Coach has the strategy ready to share with you right after weather and sports.  Want today’s handout?  Get it at MyValueTree.com.

It is time to be lean and mean!  I met two kinds of people this week:  the over-worked and the out-of-work.  Both are stressed, both are depressed…it’s just the paycheck that differs.  It is time to stand out from the crowd!  A handout is waiting for you at MyValueTree.com.  Get it, get ready and get back here after weather and sports.

The holidays can be a wonderful time of anticipation and gifts.  You have already received an amazing gift, and everyone listening has one.  This gift can change your life if you know how to operate it.  Want a head start?  Print off today’s handout at MyValueTree.com and be ready right after weather and sports.    

'Gang fight' at Black Friday sale... ,Man Punched in Face Pulls Gun On Line-Cutting Shopper...,Shots fired outside WALMART... just some of the headlines from yesteryear. Come on people, this is NOT who we are.  Coach has some focused words as we come through Thanksgiving.  Prepare for our coaching session by getting today’s handout on respect at MyValueTree.com and be ready right after weather and sports.    

There is nothing worse than totally misguided efforts, except for the fact that you are to blame.  Ouch.  Does my perception of reality cause me to do the wrong things?  We will explore how to Unlock the Block when Saturday morning coaching begins.  Get prepared with our five point model available at MyValueTree.com and be here right after wonderful weather and spectacular sports.  

You can be a star, by just being who you are!  When your moment arrives will you be ready?  Ready to get into action to fill the unique roll in life that only you can do?  Be why you are here.  Saturday morning coaching is soon to begin.  Get your STARPOWER model at MyValueTree.com and be here right after the weather and sports.

“Let me be the kind of person my dog thinks I am,” goes the saying.  Dogs are incredibly loyal…are you worthy of their loyalty?  The same is true between you and those you work for.  Are they to be trusted with your loyalty?  Misplaced loyalties are a liability explored in our STARPOWER coaching session, right after weather and sports. 

When do your beliefs become a barrier?  Let’s wake-up to the power of our beliefs and how they either help or hinder in the creation of an exciting future.  It’s almost time for STARPOWER, our Saturday morning coaching session.  Today’s handout waits for you at MyValueTree.com.  Get it and get back here after weather and sports.

Your reputation.  What an important ingredient to your success and ability to thrive during these challenging times.  Coach is going to tell you what goes on in the executive conference room and why this topic is of utmost importance to you.  Get a head start by going to MyValueTree.com and taking the Reputation Round-up.  Time for a redo?  We’ll see, right after weather and sports. 

Live your life large, share your enthusiasm with those around you because you make a difference!  You count!  Cannonball life and make a big splash.  This isn’t the Olympics. Get your STARPOWER chart at MyValueTree.com and be ready, right here, after weather and sports.

Networks are a key part of your STARPOWER success.  You can supercharge your networks with connectors, mavens and persuaders.  Possible?  We take-off with the work of Malcolm Gladwell in Tipping Point.  Are you a connector?  Get out to MyValueTree.com for a quick assessment.  We begin right after weather and sports.

Waiting, crouched, ready to pounce... fear is waiting to take you down.  Session number 5 in our summer series is soon to begin as we delve into the secrets of success as researched by Napoleon Hill and presented in his book Think and Grow Rich.  I don’t care what the jobs numbers are; we CAN thrive in uncertain times with our STAR POWER.  Catch-up by getting out to MyValueTree.com and get ready; we begin right after weather and sports.   

A mechanism exists that mobilizes your success.  Session number 4 in our summer series is soon to begin as we delve into the secrets of success as researched by Napoleon Hill and presented in his book Think and Grow Rich.  We CAN thrive in uncertain times with our STAR POWER.  Catch-up by getting out to MyValueTree.com and get ready; we begin right after weather and sports.

An amazing source of energy exists within most of us this morning for obtaining our desires.  Energy, so powerful, that when harnessed, great things are created.  We explore being motivated by a love interest;   more specifically, transmuting sex energy into creative power.  Session number 3 in our summer series is soon to begin as we delve into the secrets of success as researched by Napoleon Hill and presented in his book Think and Grow Rich.  Catch-up by getting out to MyValueTree.com and get ready; we begin right after weather and sports.

Mastering the future.  You can master bike riding, you can master cooking, you can master skiing.  Do you believe you can master the future?  We continue our summer series delving into the secrets of success uncovered by Napoleon Hill, presented in his book Think and Grow Rich.  I have a vintage video of Napoleon Hill talking about today’s subject posted for you at MyValueTree.com.  Get ready; we begin right after weather and sports here on WTIC Newstalk.   

We are coming into the half-way point of the year and it is time for a check-up to keep our minds right.  We begin our summer series delving into the secrets of success uncovered by Napoleon Hill, presented in his book Think and Grow Rich.  Meet Napoleon Hill and get introduced to the power of your thoughts with the video posted for you at MyValueTree.com and let’s begin right after weather and sports.

While many consider Memorial Day the kick-off to summer, we are going to be a bit more circumspect today and consider what this day actually means.  Many people have already demonstrated what THEY would die for…what about you?  What would you trade your life for?  Contemplative thoughts this morning right after weather and sports.  Join us. www.MyValueTree.com

Graduation weekend has arrived in CT and it is an exciting time for everyone.  Graduates are preparing for the culmination of their educational journey and family and friends are there to cheer them on.  Desire and Determination got them to this day.  If your determination has gotten diluted check-out today’s links at MyValueTree.com and be here after weather and sports for Persistence overcomes Resistance.

Stand out from the pack, stand up for something important and be outstanding.  Leadership can be cultivated and you can start today.  There is a Leadership Assessment waiting for you at MyValueTree.com.  Print it off and get ready; we begin right after weather and sports.

Which do you think is better:  Living in a world of scarcity where we all fight over a shrinking pie or growing the pie and giving everyone a chance to enjoy?  My thinking has been stretched since we last met by getting to work in Abu Dhabi and St. Louis.  Pointed thoughts from Coach today beginning right after weather and sports.

Britain’s Got Talent delivered another smack-down for Simon Cowell with the Jonathan/Charlotte duet.  Our STARPOWER today will inspire you and challenge you with the question, “Why do you make me work so hard to see who you are?”  Today we go from Sneers to Cheers.  Wake-up.  An inspiring video awaits you at MyValueTree.com.  Be ready for STAR POWER right after weather and sports.

Birds are freshening up their plumage, trees are putting on new leaves, flowers are surprising us.  Spring is bursting forth with a new look…are you?  Freshen up your perspective and creativity with a new self image.  A great photo is posted for you this morning  of Erica Van Pelt’s incredible transformation on American Idol to show you what’s possible.  Wake-up and be ready for STAR POWER right after weather and sports.  

With all the pressures in today’s world have you become cranky?  How about frustrated, snippy or short?  Today may be the perfect time for an attitude adjustment;  getting your emotional state popped back into alignment.  Get today’s handout at MyValueTree.com and spend some time with Coach Davis, your emotional chiropractor  this morning right after weather and sports.     

Little self-centered bubbles,  oblivious to those around us.  So wrapped up in our self-importance that we fail to realize the impact we have on other people. Our Saturday coaching is about thriving in uncertain times, and today we explore Daniel Goleman’s thoughts on Social Intelligence and new revelations of neuroscience.  I have a great video posted of Daniel Goleman introducing the concept of social intelligence at MyValueTree.com.  Get ready and get right back here after weather and sports.

Remember the days of “generic products” in the grocery store;  those plain yellow packages with the food item labeled in black?  Are you a generic “employee” or is there something special about you?  Get ready for some real coaching today on Image Management…the power of perception that I learned from the #1 ad agency in Manhattan.  Wake up, because right after weather and sports we begin.

For the loyal podcast group, a message just for you.  Here is the story about how STARPOWER started and a request for topics that are of interest to you.  Look forward to hearing your thoughts at Alden@MyValueTree.com.

Great song by Dylan to bring us into today’s STARPOWER coaching session on a most important subject…You gotta serve somebody.  Ray, I’m not feeling the upbeat vibe today, but it’s a good thing I can choose not to serve negative feelings.  As Coach, my job is not political/social commentary, however, I must be sensitive to what’s happening.  My job is to inspire and help keep our minds at peak effectiveness to live our best possible lives.

So glad you are with us this morning as we embark on another journey guided by our STARPOWER model that integrates Attitude, Appearance, Abilities, Associations and Accountability; 5-points designed to get us into Action.  Today we launch into a most important discussion, with some actionable tips, inspired by a meeting I was in this week.  What impressed me was the hopefulness with which each person shared.  They each talked about the measures they were taking to ensure healthy practices for their business and customers.    It was a very positive time.  And that’s where I want to begin…Hopefulness.

 STARPOWER coaching is here today.  So glad you are with us this morning as we will be guided by our 5-point model designed to get us into Action and thrive in these crazy times.  Coach has a great link posted for you along with podcasts at MyValueTree.com.  What’s on deck, Coach, you may be wondering?  We are going to have some fun with resiliency in a way that will give you some actionable tips so that with finesse and ease you can deal with these stupid curve balls that life keeps throwing at us. 

Why are we the only species on the planet that need laws to keep each other safe?  We had to pass the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) due to the lack of workplace safety…and here we go again with the same issues in the public domain.  Why should taking care of one’s own body be such a struggle and what does it mean for the future we are creating?  Our purpose today is to appreciate that Murphy will be with us as we birth a new normal, and to quickly embrace our new life.  Time to focus…STARPOWER starts now.  Today's Handout click here.

STARPOWER coaching is here again, guided by our 5-point model designed to get us into Action and thrive in these uncertain times. As we went through the week I noticed that people are suffering from the Covid Crush…too much death, too much stress, too much uncertainty; people are ending up sullen and ill-tempered…and it is negatively impacting the top “A” of our STARPOWER model…Attitude and Aspirations.  What if I told you there is one thing you can do right now, this very moment, that will give you / your brain the same happy stimulation of 2000 chocolate bars or $25, 000…interested? Get STARPOWER model at MyValueTree.com