by Rob Jolles | Sep 21, 2018 | Coaching and Mentoring, Motivation
For close to forty years, I’ve been a loyal United Airlines customer. In doing so, I’ve earned various premier status – logging in a minimum of 25,000 miles in the air a year, and crossing the lifetime million mile mark some years ago. Those million miles gets...
by Rob Jolles | Sep 7, 2018 | Coaching and Mentoring, Motivation, Self Help, success
A BLArticle® Miniseries Part 2 “Something For Everyone?” Do you know the kind of book that publishers tend to run away from? Books that are for everyone. It’s instinctive to want to create something for everyone, but it isn’t logical. To begin with, how would you...
by Rob Jolles | Jul 27, 2018 | Coaching and Mentoring, Motivation, Public Speaking
One of the challenges of grabbing a microphone, walking to the front of a room, and speaking, is the strange paradox of confidence that is clearly on display. If you come on with too much attitude, you can be perceived as pompous. If you come on looking too unsure...
by Rob Jolles | Jul 13, 2018 | Coaching and Mentoring, Motivation, Self Help, success
Fishing fascinates me. My Dad, Lee Jolles, loved to fish. My nephew Matt loves to fish. Quite frankly, I’ve never really understood what’s so interesting about sitting or standing around, for hours at a time, with a pole in your hand… but I learned a valuable...
by Rob Jolles | Jun 15, 2018 | Motivation, Public Speaking
I remember the excitement of learning my first, real presentation model. Although I enjoyed public speaking, I had never received any formal training. I learned an approach that I’m guessing many of you have heard before: Tell’em what you’re gonna tell’em, Tell’em,...
by Rob Jolles | May 18, 2018 | Coaching and Mentoring, Motivation, Self Help, success
We all want to move forward and achieve our goals, but frequently we are blocked by our inability to begin. Try as we might, we just can’t gain any momentum. I’m not referring to physical momentum – something we see in a science experiment. Strike a cue ball,...
