Meet Tim Melone

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Tim Melone. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Tim below.

Tim, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?

That’s always an interesting question; where did that come from? I wish developing resilience was as easy as finding the right kind or item at Target or Wal-mart. However, in my experience developing resilience is like deciding on a particular hike and then packing enough food, water, and sunscreen, checking the time to ensure your safe return, and then taking those first steps to ascend the mountain of discovery. It’s deciding on the goal you want to achieve and then making it happen. Sometimes you rest, slow down for a quick sip of water, and pacing yourself to ensure you have what it takes to finish the journey. As you take each step, your hone your focus, you continually check your mental and emotional endurance, and you find people along the way that can encourage and support your efforts. Mentally you have to believe you can reach the goal and then you fight to squash any limiting beliefs that may tell you otherwise.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?

As an executive coach, I work with leaders who are experiencing success and fulfillment both personally and professionally. My clients are confident in their leadership abilities and know they can experience even more success and fulfillment. Tapping into their growth mindset, together we co-create the goals they want to achieve and how we will work together. It is important they understand they drive and I support. They know the goals they want to achieve and I help them discover their own insight wisdom and resilience in achieving that goal. I love when clients discover and understand how to change a limiting belief; a belief that has held them back from achieving something before now. My company is Your Life’s Direction and with my help clients experience a new direction, a new attitude that propels even more than what they had before.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

Listening / Empathy – the ability to care enough about others that you want to understand everything about them.
Integrity – keeping your word and doing the right things.
Authenticity – accepting and being sincerely you; strengths and weaknesses

I think anyone wanting to improve in these areas must first self-assess how they are doing these things currently. And ask others for their input. Once you have that assessment, you can begin selecting items that need to change and one item a time, work on developing that trait.

What was the most impactful thing your parents did for you?

My parents were focused on others for sure. I remember my dad in particular always pulling for the underdog. I think that’s why today, I love stories that are about people achieving or overcoming obstacles that were in the way.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.yourlifesdirection.org/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timmeloneyld/

Image Credits

Emily Benson Consulting