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I used to believe that our most valuable resource is time. After all, it’s the one commodity no amount of money can buy. And the fact that no one knows just how much remains for each of us in our lifetime, makes it even...

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When you hear or read the word “detour,” what’s the primary emotion you experience?

Do you feel excited, optimistic, and energized? Or hesitant, doubtful, and cautious?

I’m going to guess that for most...

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I’m obsessed with Ease.

Let me be clear. Here, I’m not talking about Easy. Easy is about doing less, taking shortcuts, and staying inside our comfort zone. Easy says, “I don’t want to do hard things....

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The impact of Perfectionism is like the force of Gravity.

Most (I’m hoping all) of us are aware of it, and ignorance doesn’t shield us from its effects. 

In other words, not understanding gravity will not...

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Growing our commitment muscle is arguably the most significant lever of success we have the power to enforce. Yet so many of us commit to an end goal at the cost of suffering through the journey.

If the process of achieving a goal...

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I’ve been thinking about commitment.

Why does commitment have to be such a zero-sum game? Or does it?

Regarding most behaviors, a little bit is better than nothing. The foundation of successful coaching is helping folks take...

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Coaching is all about helping my clients get to “simple.”

Let me explain.

Albert Einstein explained the four ascending levels of cognitive prowess: Smart, Intelligent, Brilliant, and Genius.

But do you know what...

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The more years I collect, the less time and attention I give to arguing, convincing, and explaining.

I love Benjamin Disraeli’s advice to “never explain, never complain.”

People who have known me for decades...

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“My child needs to grow up!”

Nope.

Your child needs to wake up. 

This is my response to parents who confuse “growing up” with “waking up”. 

And I don’t mean they need to become...

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One problem, particular to this moment in history, is how easily obsession can be conflated with extremism.

As a parent, I want my children to use critical thinking, question authority, and appropriately distrust their news...

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The Coaching field remains a mystery to so many people.

My mission is to dispel as many myths and share as many truths about Coaching as possible on this chosen career journey.

You can read a selection of those articles here.

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In a previous article, When Giving Makes You Exhausted… I confessed to being a thief.

A thief of ideas.

I wrote that everything I share, I’ve heard, read, and learned from someone else.

And whether you realize it...

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I meet with clients weekly but keep conversing with them between sessions through a shared document.

I do this because life doesn’t conveniently happen, for example, every Tuesday at 10.00 am. It happens in its own time and...

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I engage in more coaching conversations per week than the number of clients I have.

I do this because I’ve learned there’s a large delta between people who want to be coached and those who commit to it.

In other...

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Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

- The Rock, T.S. Eliot

Coaching is so much more about sharing wisdom than merely...

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If you ask people why they want to work with a Professional Coach, one of the top three reasons they will give is to get help cultivating or stopping a habit.

Many believe that developing habits requires magic, so we...

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In my personal and professional lives, I regularly realize that every one of us is on an endless search for happiness. We believe achieving the next goal allows us to finally experience the joy, relief, and peace of mind we’ve...

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Why do we tend to imagine the worst possible outcomes at first?

Why is it so much easier to anticipate what can go wrong rather than what can go right?

Why is the news filled with a litany of horrors and seldom good news?

Why do so...

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I began last week’s article with the following:

Context is a word abused by people who lack the courage to advocate for moral clarity.

A few folks in my community asked me to explain my reasons for this statement.

I was referring...

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Context is a word abused by people who lack the courage to advocate for moral clarity. That’s a shame because the appropriate understanding of context can profoundly and positively impact our lives.

We’ve all heard of living...

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Last week's blog, “When Giving Makes You Exhausted…,” elicited more questions than answers from my readers.

Every day, I receive more emails asking me to dig deeper into the distinctions I identified. 

The...

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I’m a thief—an excellent one—but still, a thief! I have no new ideas. I've gained everything I know, teach, coach, and write about by being fully present to others’ wisdom. 

I used to think I needed to...

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The more time I spend outdoors, the deeper I fall in love with trees.

Trees are the wisest teachers a human can have.

Trees are everything I aspire to become.

Trees are patient.

Trees are generous.

Trees don’t question...

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When I think about identity, I think about how we diagnose having multiple personalities as a disorder. Yet, most of us live lives with multiple personalities and don’t seem to think it’s a problem!

We are different...