Too often, we treat our life dreams like a credit card balance — giving just enough attention to keep them alive, but never truly paying them off. Just like making minimum payments on a credit card can trap you in a cycle of debt, doing the bare minimum to go after your life goals will…
This is for everyone, of any gender. And this is because, as with other important topics like national security and corporate effectiveness and personal relations among individuals, we must hold ourselves to a much higher standard to be honest, authentic, and effective. Gender: Yes, it absolutely exists — AND, experiences may vary We need to…
You’re the boss. Congratulations! You’ve done a great job, at your job, whether as a startup founder or mailroom-to-executive success story. That’s great news. Here’s the bad news: now the real work begins. As I was dismayed to learn upon attaining the rank of black belt in a traditional Japanese dojo, all your hard work…
Exciting things are just around the corner with Impact Actual. New Lion Journals in stock, new journal bundles to include signed copies of Powerful Peace and Impact challenge coins (“our program in your pocket”), and much more. It all starts July 1, because that’s the final half year of this first quarter of this century.…
Father’s Day is a particularly appropriate time to talk about masculinity. Between my most recent weekly “Impact Coaching” Call (ICC) with John (not his real name), and the more recent weekly “Accountability Coaching” Call (ACC) with Bob (not his real name), I realized I need to take a beat and speak directly to my fellow…fellows.…
Today I’m sharing our “Impact SITREP” (the Situation Report, our regular Impact Actual email newsletter) for Memorial Day week. If you’d like to receive the SITREP and other updates straight to your inbox, click over to ImpactActual.com and sign up for our list.) In this week’s SITREP, we pause to reflect on the meaning of…
[CONTINUE TO THE END TO JUMP IN ON OUR DECEMBER CONTEST!] At the end of every year, I think about…everything. The year ahead, the year behind, what I’ve done to win, and what I’ve done to LEARN. And I say it that way because if you think about your failures right, that is often the…
(By Impact Actual founder, Rob DuBois) When I was arrested for drunk and criminal behavior back in May of 1991, I thought my life was over. I’d been in and out of jail, destroyed every relationship, ruined my health, and lost almost every job. This time it wasn’t the local cops in California, Texas, or…
By Rob DuBois, CEO, Impact Actual Let me start by offering you the BLUF, or Bottom Line Up Front, for this concept of Total Self Mastery: “You Control Only You.” You can’t force anyone else to do what you want, whether your title is CEO or mom/dad. If you think you can, you’re fooling yourself.…
By Rob DuBois, CEO, Impact Actual It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. J.R.R. Tolkien in The Hobbit, on the importance of effective planning 2022 begins today (December 1st, 2021). Why? Because no job is done well except when well prepared. By looking back…