Host John Chapman of the John Chapman Show talks with Eric Sims, Executive Coach and Consultant to corporate teams, who helps teams experience a high level of success in performance, business and in life. Eric Sims shares stories from his background, how he turned his life around and reached achievements in the corporate world and in his own business, the reasons why it is very important to find out who you are and what you want, and ways to go about doing that. 

Episode Highlights: Where did Eric grow up and what was money like in his house?   Eric Sims discusses the challenges he experienced earlier in his life.   What factors led to Eric making a change in his life?  What does his coaching and consulting business look like?  What gets in our way of becoming who we want to be?  How does Eric approach assisting individual clients?  What are some of the steps people can do to define who they really are?  What resources does Eric recommend? 

3 Key Points: Who we are and what we think we want is a process of our environmental influences, what we see in the media. Quite often, we allow those voices to impact our decision-making.  If you don’t know who you are, somebody else will determine that for you.  Who are you and what do you want? 

Tweetable Quotes:  “Personal development that I was picking up either through church, also through some of the recovery rooms about the alcohol stuff. There was a lot of principle-based stuff that I could look at in business.” – Eric Sims  “A lot of people don’t take the time to get really clear on who they really are and what they want.” – Eric Sims “When you tell other people what you want to achieve, it’s fine. But understand, they aren’t going to respond exactly to it the same way you feel about it because it’s not their vision. It’s your vision.” – Eric Sims

Resources Mentioned: Linkedin: John Chapman Eric Sims: LinkedinFacebook IAmEricSims.com

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