The KeepressingOn Project

08/22/2023

How would the most amazing day in your world play out? What would it take for that vision to become reality for you?

Bob Beamon had one of those days at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He astonished everyone, including himself.

Against immense opposition and in the midst of a tumultuous time that could have crushed his dream, Beamon prepared to deliver a great moment. From decades earlier, he also had a strong example. He never let go of his great goal and believed it was possible.

I hope you will find "A Jump Beyond Imagination", our next article with InsideNoVa.com, meaningful as you envision your journey ahead.

May this story encourage you in considering your next steps toward your amazing performance.

I remain grateful to InsideNoVA.com and Bruce Potter for this opportunity to share thoughts and interact with you! We welcome your thoughts in response or at [email protected] .

What would your most amazing day look like? How would you prepare?

07/05/2023

How could you have exceptional influence on others through choosing a different but meaningful path?

Arthur Ashe was a man of vision. He is often known as a tennis player -- a champion. Yet his clear purpose, commitment to excellence, and grace allowed him to show the power of his mind and deep spirit. His greatness was displayed as a humanitarian seeking justice and helping others.

In his great challenge he found a prevailing strategy that would frustrate and overcome the order of the time. He was quietly spoken in the midst of a struggle, yet distinctive and powerful in his kindness.

I hope you find "A Story of Commitment and Compassion", our next article with InsideNoVA.com, meaningful as you shape your own vision and journey.

Arthur Ashe's story began with tennis, but his vision sought to influence the world. He ultimately would allow others to experience better opportunities.

May you be strengthened in your journey as you seek to help others.

I remain grateful to InsideNoVA.com and Bruce Potter for this opportunity to share thoughts and interact with you! We welcome your thoughts in response or at [email protected] .

What would you risk in order to influence others with your vision?

06/02/2023

Many of us seek to contribute to those around us.
In what new ways would you long to grow and lead others well?

I hope you find "Building New Vision", our next article with InsideNoVa.com, helpful for you in beginning to apply sound principles to establish your own perspective. As you become more aware of your best strengths, you may discern ways to maximize crucial moments and allow your engagement with others to become more meaningful and build trust.

May you also discern new ways to lead and work more effectively with others around a strong vision.

I am grateful to InsideNoVA.com and Bruce Potter for this opportunity to share thoughts and interact with you! We welcome your thoughts in response at [email protected] .

If you desire to lead others more effectively, where would you desire to go in the time ahead? In what new ways would you long to lead others?

03/28/2023

Change is very appealing. Yet change requires awareness and initiative.

03/28/2023

We all desire more time. How can we achieve that change with growth through necessary awareness and initiative?

I hope you will find "Making the Most of Our Time", our next article with InsideNoVA.com, helpful for you in discerning ways to apply sound principles.

https://www.insidenova.com/lifestyles/making-the-most-of-our-time/article_bd126e50-cc9c-11ed-a66b-e338207e1702.html

You may envision opportunities to learn significant lessons for gaining compassion toward others and building stronger vision.

I am pleased to work with BrucePotter and InsideNova for this opportunity to share thoughts and interact with you! We welcome your thoughts in response or at [email protected] .

Change is very appealing. Yet change requires awareness and initiative.

02/22/2023

What do you desire most in your work and life?

Recurring barriers often prevent us from stepping into our expectant views of the future. What do you find gets in the way while seeking to deliver your best results in key moments?

"If Only We Had More Time", the second article in our series with InsideNoVA.com looks more deeply at how relentless time pressures cause us to experience "overload" and fall short of our goals. I trust you will find it helpful as you consider your approach to time.

I am grateful to Bruce Potter and InsideNoVA.com for this opportunity to share thoughts and interact with you! Please feel free to share thoughts here or at [email protected].

What do you desire most in your work and life?

02/22/2023

What do you desire most in your work and life?

01/20/2023

I am very excited to share our new article series with InsideNoVa! Please check it out and I hope you will share your thoughts. Also please feel free to share this inital post on the series with friends and colleagues who may find the ideas encouraging and helpful.

Many thanks to Bruce Potter and InsideNoVA.com for this opportunity!

Where are we going?

10/11/2022

What would help you deliver your best during deep challenges? As you work with others, what would you envision to help build creative strategy and execute for effective results?

This week marks our 3rd anniversary for The KeePressingOn Project for business coaching, and the 2nd anniversary for James Coltharp Policy Solutions for strategic planning and ex*****on.

I am thankful for this season of stepping out, for many stories of hope, and that folks responded to allow us to walk with them in expectant journeys. Yet, as for many of you over recent years, it also was time for waiting, at times much patience and perseverance.

As we all continue to face deep times and uncertainty, and as folks around us experience great needs, I am reminded that deep trials need not determine that our personal or organizations' opportunities are over. We may work to prepare and deliver effective results so that our next chapter becomes our best chapter.

How can you and your teams rise during this time? What would you desire to achieve in crucial moments ahead?

What would help you or your company achieve better results and compete more effectively? We would welcome the opportunity to partner in your journey toward a clear vision of future opportunities and work together to exceed desired personal and strategic goals.

May you enjoy peace in your journey ahead.

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08/01/2022

Maybe our problems will just go away?

Together, we continue to encounter deep strains from economic struggle, health challenges, and social trials. Yet we can help our organizations prepare well by finding ways to establish a strong and resilient culture. What might help our colleagues and teams look beyond a time of inflation and further economic downturn and drive a mindset of achieving peak performance? How can we help others counter fears of whether they will have enough to meet their growing needs? In the midst of another possible covid surge, and as social divisions deepen, what could help ease tensions and begin to heal us as we work together?

Strong foundations for an expectant vision are essential during these challenging times. Companies and leaders now face a crucial moment to connect their vision and organizational culture to the mindset and needs of their teams to help strengthen current performance and rebuild an expectant view of the future. Renewed core values and greater commitment to engagement will build up our organizations and yield confidence and strong hope among teams and members. Opportunities will rise for the future so that teams need not wait and wish that immediate concerns might get better if left alone.

What are leaders currently developing that could help build an enduring culture of excellence? How can we involve others to share in those crucial practices? The benefits from these efforts may multiply as we engage and work together, allowing those around us to grow better individually and stronger as a team. We may drive satisfaction and an expectant vision through a clear and consistent emphasis to discern team strengths and use the best of each other's skills. In setting the foundation and invite others to join in the vision, it is helpful to consider:

--What motivations could become increasingly meaningful as foundations for the growing culture?
--How can the organization establish new habits for strategic oversight that could enlighten clear purpose and help others envision alternate ways forward?
--If you perceive your team struggling or slowing under burdens, how could you help them gain courage?

Open and honest conversation is powerful. I recently encountered someone struggling with courage due to the persistent quiet during the pandemic. Our conversation helped them find hope and courage to step forward in their journey. I am thankful it was deep and meaningful for each of us.

Together, these practices may contribute to weave better understanding of innovation, competition, and our communities.

As leaders we may listen more actively and increase awareness in order to express and demonstrate consistent care. With greater understanding, what are the best lessons and unexpected results of coming together? What other areas would benefit from applying these lessons in order to build even greater momentum for change?

Strong and effective leaders remain calm in a wide range of high-pressure situations where outcomes are critical for their organization. How can choices derived from a clear focus establish habits of authenticity, accountability, and empathy? A stronger culture is reinforced as we cultivate a capacity to relate well during great and critical activity, allowing our teams to transform vision into better ex*****on. As a result, better vision may yield stronger productivity and effectiveness.

As we face heavy times and great needs, we may help others around us overcome past obstacles and exceed existing expectations. Deep trials need not determine our organizations' future or indicate that best opportunities are over. In renewing our culture, we find hope. How can you and your teams rise during this time?

06/23/2022

How do we lead well in uncertain and troubled times?

We all had other plans. Until 2020 some may have found it appealing just to expect teams to finish tasks faster, or with fewer resources. Now, we all may consider: “What would help our team and organization to rebuild in response to accumulated and current challenges?" We may start by believing that our best work and more productive results are within reach.

Looking forward, what are teams around us seeking in order to grow in hope in the midst of deep pressures? After the past two years, what new attributes could characterize an effective, strong leader? Perhaps a starting point describes one who steps in to help, even serve, in a challenging moment. The strong leader:
• Recognizes that unanticipated gains may multiply as we find new opportunities to lead within the team, in the middle of the group.
• Asks “How can we engage with one another differently to pursue the development of a strong team, with an eye toward each one delivering their best?”

Facing deep realities of war and the pandemic, as well as rising expectations of economic struggle, confusion, division and stress, leaders encounter a time where it is necessary to show the strength of clear strategy and clear plans for re-building. By now, most of our teams and organization demonstrate greater exhaustion, but also recover and gain energy at different paces. A leader working in the middle may see that:
• A key to effective ex*****on in big moments -- and to restore deepened commitment -- may be found in patiently drawing upon different abilities, strengths, and views.
• Potential opportunities exist for working beyond immediate tension and conflicts, and toward finding longer-term understanding and a stronger team

Our challenges also present a crucial occasion for us to demonstrate compassion. We may maintain highly productive approaches yet renew kindness and allow our teams to rebuild. Perhaps someone on your team or in your organization especially needs to know they are valued, or that you understand their challenges. Working from the middle also may reveal previously unseen moments to affirm another's strengths. We also may ask 'how are you?' or 'what are you finding that you need?'

If we think differently and more clearly about how we might help our teams when faced with answers to those questions, we may find we are closer to rebuilding and assuring that our organizations may go forward together.

We have important choices that may combine to uncover new ways forward: How can we deliver our best performance? At the same time, where can we help significantly where needed? As a leader, what could help you?

May we find new answers, different solutions, and strong hope working together as a team.

10/12/2021

New Milestones and the Road Ahead

I am thankful that in recent weeks we have enjoyed significant anniversaries for our two venture companies, James Coltharp Policy solutions and The KeePressingOn Project. The road ahead includes very encouraging prospects.

At JC Policy Solutions, over the past year we have added skilled perspective to partner with clients for creative public policy advising. We have offered unique understanding by combining smart and effective strategies, thorough planning, and extensive experience to yield paths for excellent ex*****on and favorable results at key times. We also have been pleased to add highly seasoned substantive expertise to help clients rise to new levels by preparing and building tailored and practical solutions for government and regulatory matters in highly competitive marketplaces.

What would help you or your company achieve better results and compete more effectively?

For my business coaching with leaders and teams at KeePressingOn, I am thankful for two years of helping clients meet great challenges, exceed their goals, and grow in expectant view of the future. I have been humbled and encouraged by increasing opportunities to join alongside in their journeys and see them pursue courageous choices they may not have envisioned, perform consistently, and deliver their best in response to major challenges.

What would you desire to achieve in a crucial moment? How would you approach that possibility for your company or team?

Looking to the road ahead, we are expanding our portfolio and range of services. We will continue cultivating with great energy new opportunities and earning trust that has caused our clients to say, “I couldn’t get this help anywhere else.”

I am especially grateful for our team and their great contributions of expertise, insights, and persistence in making our growth possible.

How could we help you or your team rise to meet new challenges ahead?

Much peace and thanks to so many of you for support and encouragement.