15 Tips for Navigating This Interesting Time

I love all the resources out there and this is a great collection of tips and tools and practices that we can all use to create and maintain positivity in this time of change. The blog post is quite thorough. It was written by one of the coaches I trained last year in our Transformative […]

Tips for These Times – TV and Social Media

“You become what you think about most of the time” ― Brian Tracy I have been so inspired recently by the people reaching out to offer empowering resources and thoughts during these interesting times. I want to do my part and support positivity and abundance. When things change, we have so much opportunity to change […]

Uncertainty

“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.” ― John Allen Paulos This might not be super reassuring during this time of “uncertainty,” but allow me to reframe. Certainty is an illusion. I am going to say some things I know you know already, but […]

Leader as Coach

One of my student coaches recently sent me this article from the Harvard Business Review.  If you are a leader, you are going to get great value from this article!  She sums it up better than I can: “The article talks about how management styles have had to change to better respond to a different […]

The Importance of Clear Agreements

You may be saying, “I know the importance of clear agreements.”  Even so, there is a good chance you are not getting them. Today I want to give you a simple tool that will transform the culture of your organization and improve the results you produce.  It is called “the Complete Request.”  (I am grateful […]

Dominoes

I saw a speaker once on Buddhism and mindfulness give this demonstration: He set up dominoes – like you did when you were a kid – in a serpentine design on the floor. Then he hit one and it hit the next one and so on until they were cascading their clack clack clack and […]

A Simple Time Management Tip for the Week

Think about it. No really.  Think about it.  This is my tip this week. Effective time management can seem counterintuitive.  I learned something this week from two different clients:  the value in taking time to sit and reflect. We live in a fast-paced world.  We are usually doing seven things at once.  Rarely do we […]

What Would Wonder Woman Do?

Sometimes the answer is simpler than it seems.  Sometimes we can find a way to develop that new behavior in an easy way.  I speak frequently about neuro-linguistic programming and some of the techniques it offers.  One of them is called the New Behavior Generator. Let’s imagine you want to do something and you are […]

What do you REALLY want?

People come to coaching for a variety of reasons: *make more money *get more clients *learn to communicate better *have better relationships with children or staff *lose weight *and on and on What is your current goal? The question we always ask our clients is why do you want that?  And they will say “I want […]

What Kind of a Day Will You Have?

Have you ever had this experience: You run into a co-worker in the hall at 11am and you say, “How are you?” She says, “Man, this day is terrible.” Or, “I am having the worst day.” I hear this a lot. Or on Tuesday, “This is the worst week ever.” I had heard this a […]