Spring is the season of possibility and potential, a time to plant intentional seeds for the future harvest. Let your mixed emotions guide you towards purposeful choices and thoughtful commitments.

Coaching and Therapy share a powerful mission—to make people feel and do better. But they're not the same. Therapy delves into the roots of our behaviors. Coaching propels us toward tangible progress. While Therapy helps us move from dysfunctional to functional, Coaching takes over as a high-performance engine to bring us to optimal. Many people work with both. Here are 6 insights about the real difference—and why it might matter less than you think.

Quite accidentally, yesterday morning I found a written reflection of mine from many years ago in response to the following question: Where have I left? And where am I arriving?

When new changes arise and abundance blooms, your upper limit hits the ceiling. You sabotage yourself and drop back into the old familiar zone where you feel secure. This is the inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity you allow yourself. But once you have awareness of this dynamic, you can reset it. Here are the 11 powerful practices for re-calibrating and centering your focus.

Recently, I wrote a blog about tradeoffs. I expected it to be a sleeper blog—one I found deeply important but not likely to generate much excitement. To my surprise, it struck a nerve with many readers and listeners. The most common response? People wanted to know if I could share more ways to become a true “Master of Tradeoffs.”

Last week, as I passed a park bench, I noticed four women who were clearly in their eighties, huddled together, chatting, laughing and genuinely having a great time. Here is an abbreviated list of my thoughts as I passed them each time.

Transformational Coaching takes skill, creativity and commitment. But more than anything else, it takes time.

"What's your niche?" is a question I'm asked often. My short and often unsatisfying response is, "My niche is humans." Most coaching schools teach you to build your business by deciding on a niche and marketing it aggressively. But if this system works, why is the average global Professional Life Coach salary only $47,000? I propose we base our choice of which Life Coach to work with less on their marketing niche and more on their behavioral one.

In my work, limiting beliefs around money are some of the hardest to unearth and transform. Most of us are still carrying around our great grandparents’ beliefs about money and allowing them to decide our present day to day actions.

Some people have interesting lives. And some have happy lives. So, what’s the difference?

So many of us believe that if we slow down our thinking, we will come to a dead stop or fall off the cliff or maybe we’ll just lie on the couch all day and lose the thread of our lives forever, intoxicated by Netflix and chips! I’m here to tell you the contrary.

A Morning Practice is the most life-changing tool in your operating system. Like a sturdy foundation supporting a tall building or deep roots anchoring an oak tree, how you spend your mornings determines how you spend your days—and ultimately, your life. When you understand that you have a high degree of control over how your day unfolds through a consistent morning practice, you stop seeing it as a chore and start seeing it as a powerful tool for clarity, focus, and productivity.

Imagine yourself on the morning of January 1st 2023. You’re holding a cup of your morning potion of choice as you sit or stand in your favorite spot. Reflecting on the last 4 months of your life, you are overcome with thoughts and feelings of deep gratitude and pride.

I’m often asked to explain what makes for a “great” Life Coach, as well as the reverse. So here's my list of 9 things a great coach can help her clients with and 7 things she/he can leave to other professions.

It’s humbling to know and publicly admit that I’ve never had an original idea, including the one I’m going to share today. It’s also liberating beyond measure. Most of us are raised to believe that unless we create something original, our offer is not valuable, or even worse, that we are plagiarizing! When wanting to start a new business, writing a book, or embarking on a new adventure, how many times have we heard…

"You're killing my soul!", I whined to my Coach, more than once. You'd think he was asking me to take action that put my life at risk. What he was asking me to do—repeatedly, and time after time—was to block time in my calendar for all the things that matter to me, and then honor my calendar. It seems like an easy enough request and really, what was at risk?

What's the state of your Life Buckets? When was the last time you checked to see how empty or full each one is? One of the first exercises I introduce my clients to, is the process defining your 3-4 Life Buckets. Once we identify our Core Life Values (a separate exercise), we can then decide on the areas of our life that are of priority.

Last week, I explained how thoughts come and go, as often as they please, and although I shared steps for managing our thoughts, I want to be clear about the difference between thoughts and feelings. I don’t know where thoughts come from, and although many years of therapy felt helpful in the moment, they didn’t help me become the Master of Positive Thoughts I was striving for.

If you don’t already have a bias for action, my work won’t help you. But if you are or want to become an action hero, you’ll want to become obsessed with words, their meanings and ensuing distinctions. Distinctions are also what make us situationally smarter. I grew up in Los Angeles. I have one word to describe the white thing that falls from the sky—snow.