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…
I had a root canal today. Well, technically, I had one and a half root canals. One of the two teeth being worked on was uncooperative and I had to be referred to an endodontic specialist. The dentist said it was because I’m special. (assessment) It’s not. (assessment) It’s because…
It was 4am and, once again, I was lying wake in bed with my 7month old infant son at my breast for the third feeding of he night and I was thinking, am I doing enough? I had failed at trying to get him (and me) to sleep through 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…
I stumbled upon this article the other day: 64 Positive Things to Say to Kids and I thought it was pleasant but something of a half truth. The tag line for it was “Because our words become their inner voice [sic]…” Is that true? Do our words root themselves into our children’s…
For the last couple of months we’ve been talking about assessments. We’re going to dig deeper into “Master Assessments.” These master assessments have been with us for so long, we may not even notice that they’re there. In the absence of that awareness, those master assessments show up when we…
Three months ago I joined a Facebook group called Meg’s miles. I never met Meg. Didn’t know anything about her until she died. She was a Richmond road runner killed by an oncoming vehicle. A virtual race was started shortly after her death to ‘finish her run’. People from all…
Last weekend I went to a party and a woman said someone that really annoyed me. I know this because I spent the last five days trying to decide what I should’ve said. You know how that is? When you know you missed the boat on the perfect comeback and…
If you’re the kind of person who wants to skip to the end and get the answer (and possibly even believe it), let me stop you right here and just tell you, I don’t know. And no one does. Any suggestion otherwise is a theory, no matter how much science…
download printable version | telecall recording Summary Assessments defined: The language we use to interpret the world. Sometimes we call assessments stories. We create stories to help us make sense of the world. When we are unaware of the story – when we take it as TRUTH – we are characters…
