Closing The 18 Inch Gap Podcast

Closing the 18-Inch Gap Podcast-EP026:   10 Powerful Questions I ask in A Coaching Session.   Quote of the week:   Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.   Tony Robbins A big way to closing an 18 inch gap is through coaching that gives you power and energy to find your solutions. In today's podcast I am going through 10 questions that pack some tremendous power in gett...

How To Set   S.M.A.R.T. Goals Everybody has goals.   Well, everybody should have some.   But are they smart goals? S.M.A.R.T. is an acronym I will be going into today that breaks down how goals should be structured. It's a framework I learned many years ago and I alluded to in the last podcast episode, and I want to bring it to you today. Points to covered: S: specific. Goal needs to be specific t...

What type of expert are you?   They often say that everybody is an expert at something. Sometimes people think they are an expert at everything.   But I do agree that we are all an expert at something. Today I'm going through 10 different types of experts and I will ask you, which one are you? These were inspired by a coach named Kim Avery who happened to be my very first teacher in my coaching sc...

Dreams do not come true on their own.    It takes work, sacrifice, effort and so much more.   Today we are going to look at ways to keep those dreams going   and keeping them alive so they do not slip away into the land of what could have   been. First Lets quickly look at 12 People Who Fought for Their Dreams and Never Gave Up: Nelson Mandela - Anti-apartheid revolutionary who became South Africa...

Today I want to talk about what I learned from watching the story of the tortoise and the hare. It had been in my mind for quite some time just would not let me go so I jumped on YouTube and looked up the video. As childish as it may seem I learned an incredibly important lesson from it. I looked for what I believe is the original video from 1935 of the story from Disney. I included in the show no...

Episode title: Overcoming Adversity with Fierce Resilience Quote of the day:   A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.   Anonymous   Points covered in this podcast episode:   ·  Learn from Failure : Treat failures as learning experiences. ·   Develop Problem-Solving Skills : Tackle issues with a structured approach. ·   Stay Flexible : Adapt to changing circumstances. ·   Embrace Change : Accep...

Episode Title:   Closing the 18-Inch Gap Podcast-EP020:   Ready, Reset, Grow! How Slowing Down Can Move You Faster   It's no secret that we live in a fast-paced world. Everything is go, go, go. It's the rat race of the ready set go! But what if I told you that by slowing down you could actually speed up and get more done. Today we are looking at five areas where you too can Ready, Reset, and Grow!...

Do you dare to dream big? In fact, do you dare to dream at all? Why is that, or why not? I've come to the conclusion that it takes the same amount of energy to think of a small task as it does to think of a big task. Let's look at how we can take the right perspective and Dream Big!  "Dreams come a size too big so we can grow into them".   Josie Bissett I want to explore 9 ways to dream BIG and ge...

No one likes setbacks.   I just finished the next project related to my business and podcast yesterday.   It was something that should have taken 10 days or so but instead took more than 6 weeks.   I started to even doubt if it would be completed or if I would need to find someone else to finish the tasks I requested.   I even pushed myself out of my own comfort zone and completed what I could.  ...

Relationships are difficult to say the least.   They involve every aspect of our interactions as humans.   To not be in some type of relationship, even just the most basic social norms of relating with someone else is harmful to say the least.    Today I'll be reding directly from my own book and dive deeper into this important subject. Starting on page 12 of my book near the bottom it reads: I le...

Perspectives, How Exact Words Can Have Two Completely Different Meanings Words can have serious power.   But what about when the same exact words can have two completely different meanings, I'm not talking about a point of view, rather a perspective completely opposite although the same exact words are being used.   How can this even be possible?   Well, I'll be sharing this exact exercise in this...

Closing the 18-Inch Gap Podcast-EP015:    Developing a Creative Partnership In this episode I'll be bring 8 points for you.   The first four are what I can offer the coach, and the second set of four are what you get as a client. It's important to know that a coaching relationship is a creative partnership. It's just a small sample of what so much a coach can do for you in a coaching relationship....

Closing the 18-Inch Gap-EP014: 10 Questions That Embrace Passion, Purpose, and Legacy Hello, my friend, thank you for joining today.   In this episode I ask you 10 questions that will help you live with passion, lead with purpose, and leave a legacy. In today's world it seems everyone has an answer for everything. But the important thing is not the answers, the important thing is the questions. It...

Diamonds are one of the hardest known rocks to exist on Earth.   The resemblance of you being a diamond also speaks of how not only you are formed but also your strength.   An unbreakable inner strength that keeps you going. A diamond is created by pressure formed in darkness (darkness representing the loneliness/solitude)   A diamond must be mined out of the ground and brought into the light, you...

Today I want to talk about 9 Blocks that will hinder change.     No one likes to change but in order to make progress, we all need to make changes in our lives.   Here are the 9 points I cover in today's episode: 1.       Not having a vision:   lack of vision or a clear vision of who you are and where you're going. Or more importantly who you need to become first before you get where you want to g...

One of my favorite quotes is the following:   The   pain pushes you until the vision pulls you… This is attributed to Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith and it really speaks to what I'm in right now. My vision is becoming clearer and clearer and is now at a tipping point. The pain is being replaced by the vision. What I would like to do today is bring you 10 questions to you that will help you in your o...

What is your escape velocity? The super complicated scientific explanation of this is: The escape velocity v is expressed as  v = Square root of√2 G Mr ,where G is the gravitational constant, M is the mass of the attracting mass, and r is the distance from the center of that mass. Basically, it's the velocity needed for a spacecraft to break from the gravity of the earth.   My very simple explanat...

Who am I and why am I here?  Today I'm taking a different approach. I'm going to tell you a bit about myself. But this is just an overview as there is a lot I can get into regarding the subject. But I just want you to know a little bit more of where I came from and where I'm going.   I've written and said this before in my emails, podcasts and my book. I've had to close a significant amount of 18...

Today we're diving into another list of things you can do.   Today I'm bringing you 10 things you can do when dealing with a loss. We will be looking into that today and helping you close the 18 inch gap with these 10 statements will be bringing to you. Losses come in many ways. I personally dealt with two major ones in 2023. In March I dealt with an unexpected resignation from a career of 27 year...

Today we're diving into another 12 ideas to have more success with your goals. It based on the statement:   S.E.T. Y.O.U.R. G.O.A.L.S. and the first letter of each word.   Here is a synopsis of each one: We'll start with the S: Set smart goals. When making a goal smart it needs to have the following elements to it. It needs to be specific, measurable, actionable, realistic and time bound. The next...

In this podcast I dive into 12 key points that distinguish coaching from counseling.   Coaching is still very new so to speak so I decided to bring 12 differences between the two of them.   This is based on my book titled Closing The 18-Inch Gap .   I will explain in the beginning quite a bit about why coaching is not regulated and what that means.   It's very important to me to be able to explain...

In today's episode we will look at what makes champions.   It's loaded with a tremendous amount of great information. I believe that everyone is a champion but it's a process. You don't have to be in sports to be a champion; people that are their best in their sports are also designed or created to fulfill what they are passionate about.    I'll be reading directly from my book Closing the 18-inch...

On today's podcast episode I'll be sharing a powerful story that I've read and illustrates the power of self-worth. It involves a Rolex watch, a father and a son. The father uses the watch as he tells his son to sell it to illustrate a very valuable lesson about worth. I go into the whole story in this podcast episode. The premise of it is about going where you're valued and not sticking around to...

You often hear people say to you: "don't quit your day job". That often comes from when you tell a joke trying to be a comedian, or perhaps you're bad at math and it's a way of someone saying don't be an accountant or you try to sing a very difficult song and bomb it and many other things. But the important thing here is that I did not say don't quit your day job, what I am saying is not to quit y...

In this episode I bring a lesson from the book Who Moved my Cheese , available on Amazon. I don't like change, do you? Let's be honest, no one does. This is the story of several characters where two of them are mice and they're always chasing the cheese, but it keeps moving. The book details seven steps to look at when changes are presented to you. Although I mentioned all seven of them in this po...