FocalPoint Business Coaching has awarded its Campbell Fraser Award for Coaching Excellence to John Jennings, a FocalPoint Business Coach based in Louisville, Kentucky. One of FocalPoint’s marquee awards, the Campbell Fraser Award For Excellence in Business Coaching is awarded to a Business Coach who has received consistently high client feedbackRead More →

Anxiety, it's a grind

A friend of mine told me recently that he had a toothache and he was going to the dentist.  He said it was the first time he had experienced this and thought maybe he had chipped a filling.  The dentist told him that he was grinding his teeth.  Furthermore, hisRead More →

what are people looking for

What are you looking for?  Professionally?  Personally?  I heard once that there are three things that drive a person to a higher level of performance.  These are three things that every person is looking for, whether they are aware of it or not. What are people looking for? The threeRead More →

slow down to go faster

Here’s an idea that I’ve heard before, but used to think was pure BS.  If you want to go fast, slow down.  I never believed it.  My type-A, High ID style, go for it attitude says drive harder, drive faster.  But I have learned a strange fact in the pastRead More →

What can you learn from a whitewater expedition?  Much, I say.  I was reminded of this as I was listening to the Joshua Gagnon podcast and the leadership team was recounting stories from a teambuilding canoe trip their church leaders had taken.  As I was listening to them talk, IRead More →

Motivational or Inspirational

Motivation and inspiration are both important, but they’re also very different. Motivation often feels like someone is pushing you. Inspirational leaders help you find more of the good inside you.  Motivational leaders encourage you to press ahead.  Inspirational leaders get you to see a higher purpose of moving ahead.  MotivationalRead More →

A little over one year ago I launched my business coaching and training practice.  I felt that I was finally responding to a calling that had been tugging at me for years.  Listening to my calling gave me new hope, new energy and a sense of finally doing what IRead More →