making an impact

The Thrive Principles Simplified

March 20, 2017 by Lee H. Baucom, Ph.D. Leave a Comment

Today is a big day for me. It is the release date for my new book, Thrive Principles. This book is near and dear to my heart. I have lived with it for years, collecting and developing the strategies throughout my career.

The fifteen strategies can help you build a thriving life, regardless of what is going on in your life. Tough times or easy times, we can all thrive throughout life.

Please check out my new baby at the book’s website RIGHT HERE.

Since I have spent a great deal of time thinking about these principles, I have come to understand how intertwined the principles are. In fact, I have realized that you don’t have to focus on all 15. Choose a few. The others will almost naturally come through.

A coaching client challenged me, “Can you boil it down? Make it stupid-simple.”

So I did. But I wanted to be clear, “Simple” does not equal “Easy.” If someone wants an easy way to thrive. . . it doesn’t exist. In fact, taking the easy way is how many people suffer and stay stuck.

What I discovered in coaching was focusing on two pieces is the core of it all:
1) Personal Responsibility
2) Meaning/Purpose/Impact Triad

Put your focus there and you thrive. The other principles serve as clarifying and support strategies.

I cover these two pieces in today’s podcast below.

In the meantime, please CHECK OUT MY NEW BOOK HERE.

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You Are Designed For Impact!

December 5, 2016 by Lee H. Baucom, Ph.D. Leave a Comment

When I look around, it seems that everything has a design, a purpose. Trees have a design of making leaves and fruit. When the design fails, the tree fails and dies.

I believe humans have a design built in. We are designed for making an impact. The impact can be helpful or harmful. We can look around and see plenty of harmful impacts humans have made. And we can also look around for helpful and positive impacts.

Then there are people who don’t seem to be making any impact.

But what if we decide to make a positive impact? We discover our purpose. We discover meaning.

While we are designed for impact, it is up to each of us to discover our own unique point of impact — and make that impact!

Let’s talk about your “impact design” and why you need to make that impact.

(This is the final episode of the Immutable Laws of Living Series. The rest of the series is linked below.)

Immutable Laws Of Living Series:
Life Isn’t Fair
Life Has Challenges
Life Isn’t About Happiness
A Thought Is A Thought
Every Perspective Is Limited
Change Is Inevitable
People Do The Best They Can
We ALL Have Fears
Life is YOUR Responsibility
“What Is” IS What Is
Control What You Can (Release The Rest)
Forgive To Live
Life Is The NOW
How Do You Spend Your Time?
Fear Or Love, Your Choice

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How You Get Stuck

April 25, 2016 by Lee H. Baucom, Ph.D. Leave a Comment

We all have those times when we feel stuck. And we tend to get stuck for the same few reasons:

The Past
Limiting Beliefs
Lack of Clarity
Fear

Sometimes, we stay anchored in the past, to the old stories and old scripts — and we don’t even realize it.

Other times, we carry around limiting beliefs about what is even possible. We don’t tap into the possibilities and potentials, but fall into believing our own limited perspective. We believe the self-imposed limits.

And still other times, we just don’t know what to do. We stand at the fork(s) in the road, not sure which to choose. So, we fail to choose.

And many times, fear keeps us stuck. We fear the unknown, fear change, fear failure, and even fear success.