Relentless Solution Focus: Train Your Mind to Conquer Stress, Pressure, and Underperformance

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Relentless Solution Focus

There Is Always a Solution—Always

In the fall of 2011, a 31-year-old Rick Scheeler sat in a somewhat uncomfortable chair that minutes earlier had been dragged into the oversized conference room of his Rockwood, Ohio, office where I was conducting a coaching class. Rick had been working as a financial planner for a number of years and was very unhappy. He was working 80 hours per week and feeling like there had to be more to life. Rick’s typical day had him arriving at the office at 6:30 a.m. and staying most nights until 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. Rick enjoyed the work; the problem was he was just doing way too much of it. Even if he did have time to spend with his family, he was too exhausted to enjoy it. He was discouraged ...