Summertime is here! To work or not to work?

Hear the answer in my audio blog today:

A window view from my office:

Ok, not really...but, as Mr.Heckles from "Friends" liked to say, "It could be my office!"

Dave Buck Takes the Hot Seat: "Training Without Coaching is Entertainment"

Top 9 Highlights from Dave Buck's Interview

Interview conducted by Milana Leshinsky, Founder & CEO of ACCPOW.com

1. Biggest opportunity in coaching arena is in training. Most training is a collossal waste of money, because training without coaching is entertainment.

2. Coaches must see themselves as teachers. Coaching includes sharing knowledge and drawing out the greatness of the client.

3. Observation is the missing ingredient in coach training today. The only way to get masterful is to observe and be observed by masters.

4. Coaching is inspiring to produce a desired result by personalized teaching, expanding your awareness, and designing your environment.

5. In this day of information age, overwhelm and frustration, the real challenge of the day is personal productivity. Extreme productivity coaching is going to be the new trend.

6. Thought leaders are people with new big ideas that they want to influence the people of the world. But if you just write books and give talks, you don't impact the world. The only way to impact the world is by people integrating your ideas. Coaches are the magnificent glue that pulls it all together.

7. Core competency of masterful coaches should be: "My certainty is greater than your doubt."

8. One day I woke up and realized I inhereted CoachVille. We're definitely going through growing pains right now. I had a vision for CoachVille, but I never had to put it to the test until now. It has been a great challenge and an opportunity.

9. Coachville was the epitamy of an organization built on one charismatic leader and a thousand little helpers. The charismatic leader passes on and the company has to find a way to survive. The fact that Coachville exists today, two years later, is a true business miracle.

Click to listen to my interview with Dave Buck, CEO of www.Coachville.com

New Calendar - Boom! New Productivity Level!

Sick and tired of no desk room, I went out and bought a new desk (and very cheap one, too! don't want to cringe at every scratch my stapler makes!)

Now I can find a place for my new calendar! And that's the best thing - schedule at a glance.
I got a really cool monthly planner, and will I'll never get a weekly planner again!

Here is where I found my terrific desk calendar/appointment planner.

Sitting nicely on my new desk, almost all by itself...I can immediately tell what's on my agenda today, tomorrow, this week or the rest of the month.

And while I was at it, I added a plant to my office...

Ok, so it's a fake plant...meaning I just added it digitally to see how it would look. I think I may actually get a real one!

Things I Couldn't Do When I Had a Job

Storytime with "Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig"

Weekend-shmeekend...I worked! (and loved it!)

It feels great to have caught up with many e-mails and projects I've been procrastinating!

- Having a deadline really seems to work for me! I actually worked on the committment that was due tonight - TONIGHT! So if there were no deadline, and if I didn't promise my business partner to complete it by Monday night, I would've never completed it!

- Responded to an interview request for 1shoppingcart.com, to be their case study for the newsletter. Great stuff! Feels productive!

- Completed this week's mailing, which is usually the most time-consuming but enjoyable activity for me!

- Came up with a great strategy idea for launching a new program, while my assistant came over to assemble MyBusinessCapsule packages. Nothing more productive than that!

- Confirmed a great guest speaker for next week, to present a tele-seminar to ACCPOW members (Roger Parker, the guy to call when you're wondering why your newsletters don't work!)

- Recovered from sleeping over at my family's (for next birthday, I am getting my mother a new bed...so I could sleep better when I come to visit! LOL!)

- Blogged! The "Dear diary" approach works best to inspire me to write, so I'll just keep sharing what's on my mind.

What's on YOUR mind? Please, post your comments!