Step 2 – How to Keep Your Agreements
This may seem a odd “how to” blog, but many people do not keep agreements. In step 1, we invited you to become aware of what you are saying and doing that may be construed as an agreement. In a prior blog, we talked about the prices you pay for breaking your agreements – mostly […]
Do Not Underestimate the Power of Agreements
“All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements.” — Stephen Covey As a coach, I once had the opportunity to attend a training that was put on by a school. It was a special type of school. It was a school of last resort – a school where parents who were afraid that […]
Keeping Agreements – Step 1 – Have you Made an Agreement?
Step one to keeping agreements is knowing when you are making them. What is an agreement? This is an odd topic for some people. I believe the question to be one of trust and communication. In other words, if the other person thinks you have made an agreement with them and you break it, your […]
How Do You Get What You Want in 2017?
Answer: Look ahead, decide what it is, commit it to writing. (There is more you can do, but this alone will take you a long way.) When is the Right Time to Get Ready for 2017? Answer: Right now. Here we are – 2 weeks from the end of the year. We are, many of […]
Keeping Agreements: See Yourself Differently
The purpose of this blog is to give you a foundational step before I go into the HOWs of making and keeping agreements. This foundational step suggests that, as a preliminary matter, you change how you are seeing yourself. One of the best ways to do this is, listen to how you talk about yourself. […]
Keeping Agreements – Why Should You?
On October 24, I wrote my first blog post on keeping agreements. (http://www.mclarencoaching.com/set-yourself-apart/) I promised you a series. It may be implied that I promised to start writing that series right away and I did not. The homework was, “…find out where you are. Try this. From now until our blog next week, keep track […]
Giving Thanks for You
“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.” –Jim Rohn The holidays are upon us. I hear over and again that holidays are “stressful,” that they “disrupt,” that they keep us from “business as usual.” Some […]
The Benefits of Creating a “Coaching Culture” in Law Firms
There is many benefits for law firms when they have coaching culture in the firm. But even more important is for people to know that lawyers know their rights. Most of the people don’t realize what legal rights they have. For example if someone have car accident and if its caused by someone else, they […]
Choose! November 8, 2016
We all have choice. This is the premise of coaching. We have choice – always. We do not always SEE that we have choice. Sometimes because we feel powerless, ineffective. Sometime we cannot figure out which is the best choice to make. Sometimes, maybe, we are just fed up with the choices we see. Power, […]
What Should You Wear Today?
I just read this earlier this week: “But habits are like clothes. We can put them on and we can take them off. Yet, as we well know, when we get very attached to wearing clothes, we don’t want to take them off. We feel as if we’ll be too exposed, naked in front of […]
