I have a huge irritant in my life. Processing. I hate processors. Trust me there is a distinct difference between adding value and processing. For the first 20 years of my career, it was just me. Anything that needed to be done, I would do. AND I added value every time I touched something. When […]
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I wanted to send a LIFEies for those who are going through a rough patch (who isn’t?). The book Unbroken is about Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner and WWII survivor. I am sending three quotes from the book and there are a ton more below in the article. —“It’s important to be hardened to life.” All
I spend at least 30 nights a year on the ground (backpacking). Sure, I love the exercise. I absolutely love the time in nature. But the most interesting byproduct of my backpacking and training in the desert alone or with my hiking partners has been me becoming a better leader/thinker. –I have written over 20
Back in July of this year, LIFEies hit a milestone. The 300th LIFEies was published—which was a nice marker. This got me thinking about why I was able to hit this goal and what is one of the most common mistakes I see when working with people on their personal goals. I will give you
In 1983, I got drafted and signed with the Minnesota Twins. It was the most significant event in my life at 21 years old. In 1984, I got released after only one season of A ball…not a very long career. Here are my stats: Four years earlier, Kent Hrbek got drafted, played in the same
I got a number of emails from my meditation LIFEies from last week. The biggest question was about what kind of meditation I am doing. So here is a follow-up. I spent the last two years absorbing a book by John Yates called The Mind Illuminated. If you are into meditation, this is the manual.
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I have made the commitment to meditate daily. That commitment alone has taken four years, reading over 10 books on the subject, and writing several LIFEies (here and here) on the topic and why it’s important. And it still took three months of being quarantined during a pandemic to truly get going. Anyway, I am
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A few years back, I wrote a LIFEies on a book by Carol S. Dweck called Mindset on how important having a growth mindset is for living a Fantastic Life. Carol and Patricia Chen have completed some additional research (here is a link to the published paper), and it turns out having a strategic mindset is
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Almost every single day for the last 40+ years I have pushed myself to keep everything moving. I have spent a lifetime on velocity. I have created presentations on it. It is one of our “This is Coppola Cheney” non-negotiable tenets and I have come to love moving my life at a faster pace than most
I’ve run the vaunted Marathon des Sables. I’ve run the Western States 100. I’ve been a top producer at Lee & Associates for 25 years. What is tougher than any of these? Building a world-class team. For the last three decades, I have been building teams. My personal team, The Coppola-Cheney Group, and companies that I
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