Ever feel overwhelmed? Spread too thin? Exhausted and drained? These are all clues of life feeling not quite in balance. Balance can be seen as a relationship with energy. Because energy is a wave – moving up and down, balance is also fluid – it changes from day to day…
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Obviously. It’s about gratitude. And food. And family. All of those things are delightful. Usually. Thanksgiving is widely regarded as a kick off to the holiday season which, along with all the joy, can also summon some pretty tough emotions. And where there is emotion and family there…
COURAGE — By now we all have heard some variation of this definition: Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability triumph over it (Nelson Mandela). COURAGE is that act of will that pushes us forward in spite of fear. So as leaders, we are often the…
“But I have no idea how to change. I’ve been doing this for so long!” Have you said this? It comes up a lot in coaching and when it does it usually means it is definitely, really, absolutely time to change. But it’s time to do it differently. It’s time…
If you’ve been following any of my ontological musings, you know that our language is directly tied to the way we see the world and the way we see the world affects our possibilities in the world. In coaching we talk about our inner monologues a lot — the little…
We can all at times succumb to a feeling of being the victim of circumstances. This is usually wh en we feel like everything is happening TO us or AT us, we experience a loss of control, or we just find that we are waiting for things to happen. As…
Over the last few months we’ve been talking about resilience. We’ve talked about what it is: the ability to bounce back or maintain our powerful center in the face of unexpected change. We’ve talked about what it feels like in our bodies. And we’ve talked about how we care for…
In a recent telecall about resiliency for parents, one of the participants asked for examples of actions that build resilience. I thought I’d start a list of ideas for some that work for me or my colleagues that you may consider, but beware! What BUILDS resiliency for some people may…
Whether the context is a corporate setting or a personal relationship, almost every coaching engagement I work in eventually boils down to the question of trust. And, no matter the context, it is always important. Yet we still seem to stumble over the same challenges. Largely I find that most of us have…
Never Apologize. It shows weakness. Have you heard that one? That is so 1950’s leadership. Yet here we are in 2014 and we still see this played out in our leaders, in our government, and even in our personal relationships. It is high time we shift this paradigm. The flaw…
