On January 25, 2012 we kicked off the year with 39 leading coaches signed up to hear the inspirational and breathtaking story of Mike Jaffe, who worked at the World Trade Center on the very floor where the first plane struck the building on 9/11. In fact, as he shares in his story, the plane hit his desk. He shares his story with us along with his strategies and tools for creating your own personal transformational wake up call and how to apply that to your work, your life, your coaching clients, and yourself.
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Mike’s book, WAKE UP! Your Life Is Calling: Why Settle for “Fine” When So Much More Is Possible? is available now!
Posted at the bottom of this page are notes I took on Facebook during Mike’s call with us, and here is Mike’s bio:
About Mike Jaffe
Mike Jaffe, MBA, CC – Certified Life Coach
Mike Jaffe is a Human WakeUp Call!
· Mike Jaffe is a nationally-recognized speaker, seminar leader, business and personal coach, and author of WAKE UP! Your Life is Calling. Why settle for FINE when so much more is possible? As a 9/11 survivor who has transformed his life, Mike Jaffe serves as The Human WakeUp Call™ by using his own brush with tragedy as a message of self-discovery and empowerment.
· Mike’s new book, WAKE UP! Your Life is Calling serves as a wakeup call for us all, sharing deeply personal stories – his own 9/11 story included – and providing a framework for utilizing his five principles to WakeUp your potential, live powerfully and turn your intentions into your reality.
· Mike is committed to championing programs that bring perspective, tools and support to the workplace, enabling increased professional success and accountability together with better quality of life. Mike stands out for his energetic, authentic and thought-provoking messages and real life approach to the issues and opportunities that people and organizations face in today’s complex, fast-paced world.
· The founder of the Mike Jaffe Company, Mike’s been a featured expert on CNN, Fox News, New England Cable News and has been published and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, MSN, US News & World Report, Crain’s NY Business, Entrepreneur Magazine Radio and other national and regional media outlets.
Mike Jaffe combines a solid business background with a motivational style that ensures clients clarify their goals and achieve successful results. With more than 12 years of coaching and mentoring executives and corporate teams, Mike brings a wealth of experience, and powerful insight to your company as a business and personal leadership coach, keynote speaker, workshop leader and nationally published writer.
When Mike worked as a Global Marketing Specialist at the top of the World Trade Center, one random morning he decided to take a later train. The day was September 11, 2001 and his choice ultimately saved his life. The rest of his business team and many more colleagues and friends were not as fortunate. The events of that tragic day served as a shocking WakeUp Call, leading Mike towards his calling to inspire and guide others in creating possibility in their own lives and businesses without wasting another precious day.
Now Mike is a certified life coach and committed to serving as a Human WakeUp Call™ for others around the world. His unique approach and rare insight combines the power and directness of coaching to empower his clients to break free of their complacency, limiting beliefs and inactivity. He pushes them to overcome the challenges that inevitably arise, to stay focused and reach their goals.
An energetic and passionate professional, Mike has provided motivational speaking presentations to corporate and academic audiences, and community and nonprofit groups including Steinhardt School of Education at New York University, the Interfaith Housing Association, and Guardian Life Insurance Company. Mike received his MBA in Management and Marketing from New York University and his BBA in Management and Finance from SUNY Albany. He is a certified life coach, trained by the Life Purpose Institute (LPI) of San Diego.
Mike’s experience provides the insight to help clients tackle the broad array of challenges they often face. His career has included business strategy and planning, new product development, client retention and loyalty, and product launch and support, for major global players such as American Express, Marsh and McLennan and JP Morgan Chase. His strong client orientation and entrepreneurial drive has been demonstrated as an international consultant, a customer loyalty leader, and as a founder of two independent small business startups. He is also a popular guest lecturer for New York University.
Mike is ready to bolster your company by providing your top executives with a powerful, life-changing, success-oriented WakeUp call of their own.
Notes from the Leading Coaches’ Center Facebook Page
During the call, I tried to capture some of the gems Mike shared with us. Scroll down to the bottom and read them going upwards, because they are posted in reverse chronology:
HumanWakeUpCall.com and WakeUpBook.com
http://bookstore.authorhouse.com/Products/SKU-000418299/WAKE-UP-Your-Life-Is-Calling.aspx
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WAKE UP! Your Life Is Calling3 things you can do in any situation: Change it, Influence it, or Accept it
Intention to your word. Hold to account. Integrity of doing what you say and saying what you’ll do. Authenticity. Totems and tools to use. Use ABC’s of transformation to reground in your power. Boil it down to something simple that you can hold onto for course correction.
make sure you create the right support system around you…integrate home and work supports
Patience and courage.
Key is keeping momentum going and keeping muscles strong. Be unstoppable. Life doesn’t go as you planned, but keep going anyway. Acknowledge what you DID do.
Do SOMETHING. Even if it doesn’t look like the exact goal or action step you had planned.
Building up your action muscles. Simplest things can be hardest to implement.
Play big. Make 2012 be THE YEAR.
You have the power to create whatever future you desireLife is a gift. Every single day counts.
Mike’s asking about insights and strategies for marketing a self published book, anyone who has gone through a brand change? Your experiences?
Knowing without doing is not to know
5 P’s (principles for rewriting your tomorrow) Perspective. Purpose. Play. Plan. Persist.
ABC’s of transformation: Awareness is a muscle. Breath – slow down so you can think again, reverse effects of reactive world. Commitment; understanding your vision, what are you committed to? Crystalize it in your timeframe.
Get to deeper core of meaning and values in the workplace
http://bookstore.authorhouse.com/Products/SKU-000418299/WAKE-UP-Your-Life-Is-Calling.aspx
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WAKE UP! Your Life Is Callingrounding up…when you’re going to start something…days become weeks, become months, become years. Tomorrow starts today
it’s all about perspective
start small. it still counts! little steps add up to big change over time
stop looking back and asking “why?”. Start looking forward and ask, “what now?”
we all have these moments of truth. we live our lives like we have endless tomorrows
the first plane flew into the World Trade Center, into my floor, and hit my desk
it’s amazing how our rituals are so powerful
great intentions, power, commitment, courage…but sometimes that stuff wanes. I had great intention yesterday, but now I’m standing at crossroads.
It’s about having it all…figuring a way to do it all
tiny small change…my relationship to my work had changed. I had power to determine if I was going to make it a good situation or not! (Mike)
perfect victim mentality transformed by asking “what is in my control that I CAN change? What little thing CAN I do?”
”transformation and new possibilities are discovered in the world of what we don’t know we don’t know” – Mike Jaffe
Mike’s website: http://www.jaffelifedesign.com/index.html
The WakeUp Revolution – Using inspired coaching for life and business to design and live the life of your choice – on your terms! Jaffe Life DesignLooking forward to what Mike has to share with this inspiration focused call.
Welcome everyone! You’ll be able to find the recording of this session with Mike by tomorrow on the Leader’s Clubhouse where we post all of these: http://leadingcoachescenter.com/clubhouse/category/mastermind-live
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Looking forward to it. Getting ready now! :)
Starting at the top of the hour…Mike Jaffe on Leading Coaches’ Mastermind call! Join us if you are available!
