by Rob Jolles | Oct 23, 2020 | Motivation, Self Help
When I was a kid, I remember begging my parents to buy me a journal. I really wanted that journal; I had dreams of capturing all sorts of private thoughts, and I wanted to be able to to lock it! I was relentless, deploying every trick in the book to convince my...
by Rob Jolles | Oct 9, 2020 | Motivation, Self Help
The other day, I delivered a program that just wasn’t my best. It wasn’t due to a lack of preparation or a lack of effort, but I was faced with obstacles with every move I made. I won’t bore you with the details, but my favorite obstacle was leaving a breakout room,...
by Rob Jolles | Sep 11, 2020 | Coaching and Mentoring, Motivation, Self Help
There’s no doubt about it; one of the best ways to get better at something is to simply ask for feedback. How do we get better without feedback from others? Feedback provides invaluable information we can’t see for ourselves. Feedback helps us evolve. Feedback...
by Rob Jolles | Jul 31, 2020 | Motivation, Self Help, success
Athletes will often talk about performing at a high level, but on certain occasions, they will comment that performing at that high level was effortless. When golfers are putting, they will say things like, “the cup looked as big as a bucket,” or they sum up an...
by Rob Jolles | Jul 17, 2020 | Motivation, Self Help
There’s nothing like a good ritual or two to help us stay emotionally and physically in balance. For those who are not quite sure what I mean when I say, “ritual,” please allow me to define it for you. A ritual is “a sequence of activities involving gestures, words,...
by Rob Jolles | Jun 19, 2020 | Self Help
I come from the business world, and I happen to be married to an artist. Opposites do attract, but you would be surprised at the number of things we share. There are quite a number of unexpected similarities that exist between the two of us. One such similarity is...
