Prickly or Pleasing. A person’s disposition…your disposition, is an important ingredient to your success. Bougainvillea is a pretty enough plant to cover a wall, but it is covered with thorns making it very difficult to shape and handle. I just

Supercharge Your Thinking

Jun 7th, 2021 10m 11s

Welcome to Saturday Morning Coaching with Coach Davis. This is Session number 5 in our series on Critical Thinking. Want to be successful in life? Then, critical thinking is an essential skill that you can learn. Do you remember having a cl

Traps of Critical Thinking

May 29th, 2021 5m 5s

The person who thinks critically can reason and evaluate to make informed decisions and successfully solve problems for a desired outcome. Caution…within our thinking traps are hidden. Welcome to Saturday Morning Coaching with Coach Davis. L

Make a Decision

May 23rd, 2021 8m 11s

The hallmark for one who thinks critically is the ability to reason, assess, question, investigate, formulate, calculate, evaluate, and judge to make informed decisions and successfully solve problems for a desired outcome. You have power that

Audit Your Thinking

Apr 25th, 2021 8m 29s

Your mind is truly yours. It is an amazing gift. It directs your life and gives you your results. If you don’t like what is going on in your life…the decisions you are making…it is time to check your thinking. Last week we started an explor

How critical is your thinking?

Apr 18th, 2021 6m 24s

Your mind is the Central Processing Unit of your life. Everything you do is controlled by your mind. You are constantly receiving stimuli, you run it through filters and select what comes into your mind. Chris Argyrus, former Harvard Profess

Claiming or Creating Value

Apr 10th, 2021 6m 53s

I just got out of a meeting with the CEO of a mid-size, precision manufacturing company. His job is to fix the company. We spent a lot of time discussing the people who report to him and if it is possible to create a team. What a great quest

STARPOWER Refresher

Apr 3rd, 2021 11m 20s

Welcome back to Saturday Morning Coaching---with Coach Davis. My goal is to inspire and help you succeed. I firmly believe as Napoleon Hill would say that “thoughts are things.” All our action, all our action starts with a thought somewhere

Curse in Conflict

Mar 27th, 2021 10m 56s

Welcome to Saturday Morning Coaching with Coach Davis. Did you know there are two types of conflict? One is good to have in an organization the other is not. One can make things better, the other can hurt you and your reputation. Get ready

Let's Be Positive

Mar 22nd, 2021 6m 25s

STARPOWER: Exploring Appreciative Inquiry Welcome to Saturday Morning Coaching, I’m your host Coach Davis. Starting today, you will notice the format to be less structured and a little less formal and hopefully a bit more personal. Welcome,

Recharging Your Reputation

Mar 6th, 2021 7m 11s

Recharging your reputation. As we cruise into the next quarter, it’s time to step back and make sure your reputation is working in your favor. Research shows that job performance is positively associated with personal reputation for political

"Good Will" Deposits

Feb 27th, 2021 5m 57s

Unbeknownst to you, some form of trouble is already in the works that will cause a problem for you at work. Are you preparing today by making deposits into the “goodwill” bank? Get the STARPOWER handout at MyValueTree.com and be ready for th

Triumph or Tragedy?

Feb 19th, 2021 7m

Times of transition are popping up all over the place for people. Early retirement, job loss, death, relationship ending…whatever it is, some sort of change is forcing its way into your life., and the question is, “how will you respond?” Triu

Getting to Know

Feb 13th, 2021 7m 16s

Here we are on an Independence Day weekend celebrating freedom from tyranny, yet one of you this morning is letting your dreams be held hostage because you can’t get to “no.” Living in Hopeville is safe and easy. Breakout with today’s STARPOW

Mind the Store

Jan 30th, 2021 6m 48s

Just getting through all the issues of today has many of us with our heads down and our elbows up. It’s so easy to get lost in these details that we get squeezed out of our future. Is it time for a family strategic plan? Saturday Morning Coa

Stand in the Gap?

Jan 23rd, 2021 5m 54s

We are going to talk about rituals. They define who we are as a person, a family, a town, a nation. What you do repeatedly, regularly, these are your rituals. Who do you become when the rituals end? Saturday Morning Coaching is soon to begin

Trimtab...Power of Small Change

Jan 16th, 2021 8m 14s

From the archives: How quickly the year is going. Remember all your hopes and expectations when the year started? How’s it going? Saturday Morning Coaching is here and today we take stock of our progress and learn how to use the trimtab for

5-to-Thrive: Sowing Seeds of Hope

Jan 9th, 2021 7m 55s

Saturday Morning Coaching is back and today the fifth element in our exploration of “5 to Thrive” will be revealed. Without it your pursuit of possibilities will wither…in a world of surplus talent you blend right in. The missing ingredient f

Expand Your Possibilities

Jan 4th, 2021 7m 1s

How full of a life do you want to live, and for how long? Today’s STARPOWER coaching explores “becoming more than I believe I can be.” Get the “5-to-Thrive” handout at MyValuetree.com and meet me right here after weather and sports.

5 to Thrive – Quit Before You Start

Dec 26th, 2020 7m 4s

Quit before you start and save the pain of trying. Let’s master the lower limits of our thinking so that we become disempowered and let other people succeed. What’s Coach got in store for you today? Get our “5-to-Thrive” handout at MyValuetr

5 to Thrive: Becoming YOU

Dec 19th, 2020 7m 47s

The world is ready to meet you! Will it be the new and improved you, or the old and boring you? If you want new doors opening for you this year, be it relationship or professional, maybe the same old you will only get the same old results. C

5 to Thrive: Be more YOU

Dec 12th, 2020 8m 5s

It is time to be lean and mean! I met two kinds of people this week: the over-worked and the out-of-work. Both are stressed, both are depressed…it’s just the paycheck that differs. It is time to stand out from the crowd! A handout is waiti

5 to Thrive: Control Your Mind

Dec 4th, 2020 9m 4s

The holidays can be a wonderful time of anticipation and gifts. You have already received an amazing gift, and everyone listening has one. This gift can change your life if you know how to operate it. Want a head start? Print off today’s ha

Is this Really who we are? A Thanksgiving reflection

Nov 30th, 2020 6m 58s

'Gang fight' at Black Friday sale... ,Man Punched in Face Pulls Gun On Line-Cutting Shopper...,Shots fired outside WALMART... just some of the headlines from yesteryear. Come on people, this is NOT who we are. Coach has some focused words as

Unlock the Block

Nov 20th, 2020 6m 1s

There is nothing worse than totally misguided efforts, except for the fact that you are to blame. Ouch. Does my perception of reality cause me to do the wrong things? We will explore how to Unlock the Block when Saturday morning coaching beg