Argue for Your Limitations
“Argue for your limitations, and surely they’re yours.” –Richard Bach It’s funny isn’t it? How we talk about certain things are “just not possible?” We don’t have to say, “No” or “I won’t.” We can prove it. We can prove that certain things are just not possible. Coach: So why didn’t you get that report […]
The Power of The Declaration
When I coach people, it is to discover new things they did not know before – usually new things about themselves. Usually this means that some kind of action is revealed to them – some kind of forward movement or next step. At the end of every coaching call, my clients make “declarations.” All coaching […]
Hope is a City in Arkansas
Last week I posted a piece I wrote on “have to” versus “get to.” For me there is no difference between the two. All of life involves choice and “have to” is still a choice. In a couple days my newsletter will come out. In that, I have focused even more on the power of […]
Have to – Get to
I was in an on-line writing class and every day we were prompted to write something. Day Eight was this: “make two lists: have to and get to.” My newsletter in August will have an expanded discussion about language, how we use it and what opens up or closes down based on what we choose […]
Creation Through Intention – a Summary
Over the last several months, I have learned a lot by reading my guest bloggers’ postings on intention and how they have used it. So here, a summary – everything you ever wanted to know about intention. And links to the blog posts. Nothing left to do but set that intention! The Rules of Intention, […]
Courage
This is for all my clients, present and past. This is also for my brave friends and family. This is for all the people I know who walk to the edge of their comfort zone and then lean over. Then step out. Then walk all the way out. Then sometimes come running back. Then walk […]
Forget the Accursed “How” (Intention #11)
“If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” –Thomas Edison Another guest blog on intention. Very simple and straightforward. Have you ever had this experience? What do you notice? On setting intent: A month ago, we set up a climbing rope in a tree. My son […]
Breathe and Stay
(Yet another blog about spin class and life.) Coaching is coaching. Business coaches are modeled on sports coaches and there is a reason for that. I get much of my inspiration from sports coaches because their goal is the same as my goal. A good coach in either field will: 1. Listen for what you […]
Intention and Being (Intention, #10)
The following is from one of my book study participants. We are studying the book, The Art of Possibility, Zander and Zander, in which we talk a lot about who to BE in order to get what you want. Keri illustrates this brilliantly in the following blog post. “The way you see people is the […]
What is the Game You Are Playing?
To become credentialed as a coach, I went through a fairly intensive program with a great trainer and company, Source Point Training Co. About half way through the program, my mentor/trainer, Barbara Fagan, said to us “It’s time to evaluate your participation.” There was no grading in this program and no discernable measurements being used […]
