When to Let Go? When to Push Harder?
I wrote a blog post last week about letting go (http://www.mclarencoaching.com/let-something-go/). The week before I wrote a blog about giving it everything you’ve got – don’t give up even when you feel you cannot go any farther (http://www.mclarencoaching.com/how-far-can-you-go/). What has arisen from the feedback is this – how do you know when it’s time to […]
Start Where You Are
“Start where you are Use what you have Do what you can” –Arthur Ashe ____________________________________ We are nearing 2016 and some of you are getting ready to say what you want for next year. New beginnings are so fresh, so hopeful. I really believe that you can create a new beginning any time you want. […]
More on Accountability and Choice
Here is your quote for the week: “Our past experiences and our present circumstances have absolutely no power other than [what] we choose to give them.” Bob Proctor, from The ABCs of Success. It is so hard at times for people to see beyond their past experiences and their current circumstances. It is easy to […]
Invictus – The Power to Choose
My son just finished 7th grade. At the closing ceremony, his class recited this classic poem: Invictus –William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced […]
Check out my Podcast on Lawpreneur Radio!
A couple days ago, I was interviewed by Miranda McCroskey for Lawpreneur Radio. “Lawpreneur Radio” comes out of the recognition that lawyers need to learn how to run their practices as a business. Therefore, Lawpreneur Radio is a community where members are both lawpreneurs who’ve figured out how to hang their shingle and thrive, and […]
Beware Your Interpretations
“We don’t see the world as it is; we see the world as we are.” –Anais Nin I had a client once who came to many of our calls concerned that sh e was going to be fired. She loved her job and she felt completely out of her depth much of the time. Coaching […]
The Habits of Excellence
Your quote for the week: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” Aristotle It is easy to think there is some magic act that we might figure out and take that would change our lives and our results. But the truth is more mundane. For you may […]
How to Change Other People
Surely this will be the most popular post I have ever written. Because this is what we are after, isn’t it? How to change other people? I know you have been told you can’t change others. I know you have heard it from the “experts,” like myself. But maybe it’s not entirely true. Consider the […]
You Get to Choose (Part II)
You may have read my blog last week about a guy who inspired me with his enthusiasm for holding a sign on a corner in Sacramento. Today I am writing about another man I saw. About 2 blocks away from sign guy, is Fruitridge and Freeport – an intersection I cross every day to pick […]
You Get to Choose (Part I)
If you live in Sacramento near Land Park area, you will have by now become familiar with “the man at Sutterville and Freeport.” He holds a sign and he dances. You’ve seen this before – a person with a sign pointing to Verizon or a sandwich shop. They’re pretty high energy. But this guy is […]
