Joshua Gold Coaching

The Cost of…. 

Over the next few days or weeks, I will be writing about “The Cost of…”  The cost of doing something, the cost of not doing something. The cost of starting, the cost of not starting..., and so on. But today we start with just  “the cost of..."

We don’t automatically think that there is a cost of doing something. We just do it and that’s it. It’s part of our job, our life, our relationships. We just take action each and every day. What would happen, what might change if we first thought of the cost of doing that something?

The Cost of…getting up 30 minutes earlier each morning

The Cost of…having a morning routine

The Cost of…taking out the garbage

The Cost of…having a glass of water in the morning

The Cost of…journaling

The Cost of…being tolerant of others

The Cost of…listening without judgment

The Cost of…gossiping

The Cost of…procrastination

The Cost of…being impatient with anyone

The Cost of…running a red light

The Cost of…texting while driving

The Co...

Happy Labor Day!  For those of you who are part of Radius, we are not meeting today! Let's celebrate the end of summer. Maybe not technically, but for all practical purposes, it is. 

This has probably been the strangest summers any of us have experienced. I know that time has moved very strangely for me. First at a snail's pace, then a little quicker, and all of a sudden fog set in. Then BAM it's over. 

This is how many of our lives play out in general without COVID. COVID is magnifying so many things in our lives. From social to political differences. Our school systems from pre-school to Universities are being uprooted and forced to think in different ways. We are being forced to think in different ways. Resistance to change comes in many forms. We see that happening in real-time Magnified by COVID. 

I ask you today to take just a few minutes by yourself, with family or friends, and begin to think about how you might be resisting changes that are happening in front of your eyes. 

YOUR CIRCLE OF SIGNIFICANCE

What is the effect of your significance?

On yourself? On those you love? On your business? On strangers, you meet? At that dinner party that you are at?

How deep is your circle of significance? What exactly does that mean and does it matter…..to you? These are all questions that I ask myself and my clients. The circle of significance and the circle of influence are two very different circles. They come from very different places. The distinction is where it originates.

Your circle of significance comes from your heart and soul. It comes from a deep place that only a few people can enter. As opposed to your circle of influence might come from a good place. A place that you might call your heart. Though I would challenge that it is a different part of your heart. Not as intimate and one that you wish to grow with as many people that you can.

This missive focuses on the Circle of Significance. A vulnerable place to be. How many people's lives are you truly...

 The following is a group of emails that I had sent out to my email list of past, current and yet to be clients of mine. I shared them over a period of three days and wanted to share them as one letter to all of you. The idea was to come up with a COVID 19 Success Plan. What’s yours?

COVID 19 Success Plan:

Three-Pronged Plan:
1 — Physical
2 — Mental
3 — Financial

Your Physical Plan
When I say physical, I am referring to a few different aspects of physicality.

There is staying healthy. Not too much binge eating of all the comfort food. I know that this soothes the soul. Though this is a time that you need your body to have a strong immune system. So, you need to eat properly. No reason you can’t occasionally have something to soothe the soul. But not every freakin day.

Exercise is key for so many reasons. This alone can take up a book. Books have been written on it. A good thing for you guys that I am not long-winded and don’t go on and on about things. Exercise is important so that yo...

Sneaky little things…….

This is not the first time that I have written about this topic and I am sure it won’t be the last. Each morning I go through my morning routine. The routine itself doesn’t matter. Though I think mine is too long;). I need to trim it down a bit. Of late I think that distractions are part of my morning routine. 

Interesting thought. I am going to say this again “ distractions are part of my morning routine.” What exactly is a distraction? Let’s start there. According to Webster's definition, a distraction is a thing that prevents someone from giving full attention to something else. 

Let's flip that around for a moment. Maybe what I am doing is a distraction to the initial distraction. For example, I am writing this article, blog, morning missive.. whatever you want to call it and I look up the word distraction. That takes me away from or prevents me from giving my full attention to something else. In this case my writing. Though is it really? Maybe it is just...

We all started out as extraordinary individuals. Something happened along the way. Some of us were told we aren't extraordinary. That was someone else's story that was inflicted upon us.

Time to take back our story... We are all extraordinary!

What is keeping you from being EXTRAordinary?

Joshua