Your Inner Critic
We all cultivate a voice inside our heads that criticizes, chastises, and judges us and what we do, no matter what it is.
Why People Don’t Know the Real You
Do you ever feel like the people you work with don’t really get you? I know you have, because likely as not, they probably don’t. But the real question is: Why?
May the Force be With You
Someone asked me recently what I do. For the sake of simplicity, I said that I work with people so they can learn to focus on what’s important in their lives. I ask them questions, get them to think, get them to wrap their minds around the real stuff of life.
What You Are Worth—A Message for Introverts.
No one is ever going to pay you what you are worth. They will only pay you what they think you are worth. But you can change their thinking and no magic is involved at all.
The Power of Your Habits
Few of us would argue that habits have a huge impact on our lives. Habits can make monkeys out of us all...For better or worse, they can shape our destiny.
The Many Faces of Help
Everyone has been at a very low point in their lives. It is part of being human. Whether it be a failing relationship, job loss, sickness, death of a loved one, or a combination of these, we eventually reach the end of our emotional rope and recognize we can’t get better alone.
Pride: It Isn’t a Deadly Sin by Accident
You hear and read reports of leaders who have forgotten—if only for a time—who they really are. It can be in the midst of the trappings of their very success or their station in life that memory goes blank and they forget.
Learning how to… Ski
So, you decide that it would be really cool to learn to ski. Back before the Information Age,
Magic Beans
Grit and Resilience “It matters not how straight the gate How charged with punishment the scroll I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul.” —William Ernest Henley If you are the kind of person who gets things done, have you ever noticed how many people wonder how you do it?
Coaching Around Toxic Perfectionism
In my coaching, I run into people who suffer from what I call “toxic perfectionism.” Over the years and in the various scholarly journals, much has been written about perfectionism, some positive and some negative. Adam Furnham, Ph.D. wrote in his article “The Curse of Perfectionism,” “Is perfectionism a highly