The Fantastic Life

2020

Solitude

I spend at least 30 nights a year on the ground (backpacking).  Sure, I love the exercise.  I absolutely love the time in nature.  But the most interesting byproduct of my backpacking and training in the desert alone or with my hiking partners has been me becoming a better leader/thinker. –I have written over 20

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Mindset Importance

A few years back, I wrote a LIFEies on a book by Carol S. Dweck called Mindset on how important having a growth mindset is for living a Fantastic Life.   Carol and Patricia Chen have completed some additional research (here is a link to the published paper), and it turns out having a strategic mindset is

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Why Velocity?

Almost every single day for the last 40+ years I have pushed myself to keep everything moving.  I have spent a lifetime on velocity.  I have created presentations on it.  It is one of our “This is Coppola Cheney” non-negotiable tenets and I have come to love moving my life at a faster pace than most

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Team Members to Focus On

I’ve run the vaunted Marathon des Sables.  I’ve run the Western States 100.  I’ve been a top producer at Lee & Associates for 25 years.  What is tougher than any of these?  Building a world-class team. For the last three decades, I have been building teams.  My personal team, The Coppola-Cheney Group, and companies that I

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