by Rob Jolles | Aug 8, 2014 | Coaching and Mentoring, Motivation, Self Help
They say opposites attract, and each morning, it’s on display in my house when the alarm goes off. My wife, Ronni, loves the snooze bar. She seems to look forward to not just tapping it or hitting it; when she goes for the snooze bar, she smacks it! It’s almost a...
by Rob Jolles | Jul 25, 2014 | Coaching and Mentoring, Motivation, Self Help, success
When I was younger, I used to love to run. I started by running 10-kilometer races, and then I graduated to 10-milers, moved on to half marathons, and before I knew it, I was running marathons. People would ask me: “What’s it like training for a marathon?” I’d...
by Rob Jolles | Jun 27, 2014 | Coaching and Mentoring, Motivation, Self Help, success
Story #1… Last week, the travel Gods really stuck it to me good. I showed up at O’Hare airport at 6:00 pm, and I found out that my 7:00 pm flight back to National Airport was running thirty minutes late. This was due to thunderstorm activity. When I...
by Rob Jolles | Jun 13, 2014 | Coaching and Mentoring, Public Speaking
In 1986, along with four other trainers at Xerox, I was assigned to teach the new basic training program at Xerox called L87. I had no idea why it was given that name. After a dreadfully short period of time trying to learn it, I found myself up in front of a room...
by Rob Jolles | May 30, 2014 | Coaching and Mentoring, Corporate Communications, Self Help
Have you ever stopped and counted how many emails you get in a day? It’s hard to count because we are often checking when we wake up, checking while we’re drinking our coffee, checking when we get to our office, checking when we’re waiting around for others,...
by Rob Jolles | May 16, 2014 | Coaching and Mentoring, Motivation, Self Help
When you ask someone to do something, one of two answers are usually heard: “I’ll try” or “I will.” At first glance, these two responses sound a lot alike. After all, aren’t we taught to always try, or try real hard or try our best? Yes, it seems pretty easy to...
