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Passion: Articles that deal with the inner drive that we all need to want to MOVE from where we currently are to where we dream to be.

Preparation: These posts reference articles, books, documentaries, speakers, quotes, and other inspirational and formative ideas that I have found that helped me and the people around me.

Practice: Articles in this category have a heavy sports and performance training lean.

Performance: These articles focus on how you go about your work. From networking to communications to finding a better way to do what you do.

Perseverance: Articles in this category speak to the mechanics that we go through both mentally and physically to stay on track and not get STUCK.

 

Perseverance Coach Carlisle Perseverance Coach Carlisle

When Winning Yesterday Stops Buying You Tomorrow

Success has a way of convincing us that what worked yesterday will continue working tomorrow.

The athlete, who has always been one of the best players on the field, assumes that another opportunity will eventually show up. The executive who built a successful company continues relying on the same formula that created the original success. The employee approaching retirement believes that decades of professional accomplishment will naturally lead to a full life once the job ends. In each case, past success provides evidence that the person knows how to succeed, but it can also create the dangerous assumption that the next chapter will take care of itself.

It won’t.

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