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The momentum is building. You’ve finished your classes, got your first client, and you’re off to a strong start. But like a racehorse that bolts from the gate but quickly falls behind, you wonder if you’ll ever make it to the finish line into full-time coaching success. It doesn’t have to be that way. In [...]
Listen closely to a client during the coaching session, and chances are you'll hear metaphor, analogy, and fruitful words ripe for harvest. Client-owned words, analogy, and metaphor are not by chance, they are personal fruit, fed from the very roots of their conscious and sub-conscious mind. This fruit, when carefully harvested and repurposed, empowers a [...]
Curiosity: the desire to learn or know more about something or someone; something that is interesting because it is unusual. Intuition: a natural ability or power that makes it possible to know something without any proof or evidence; a feeling that guides a person to act a certain way without fully understanding why. You're the coach [...]
The magic number is 21. That’s it — 21 days to change a habit. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? Just three weeks of your life, and you are on the road to successful change! Yet, some people spend a lifetime trying to change negative behaviors (Layton). As coaches, how can we be a catalyst for lasting [...]
"We don't see things as they are; we see things as we are." Anais Nin It was Friday, 8 :00 am, and I had just sat down with a hot cup of coffee, my Bible, and my Bible study homework. Just as I was settling in, the phone rang. I picked it up and grunted [...]
“You are so much more alive,” my friend said when we met for coffee last Friday. “Walking away from the corporate world was the best thing you’ve ever done.” I couldn’t agree more. Our conversation fell near the one-year mark of my grueling decision to walk away from my corporate job and its 401(k) and [...]
For the last few weeks, we’ve focused on the five core components of emotional intelligence as identified by Daniel Goleman, author of the wildly popular book, Emotional Intelligence — self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social awareness. Today we focus on the last in our series, social skills. Social awareness is about understanding what people want [...]
Our family has recently gone through a difficult time as we watched my father endure quadruple bypass surgery. It was his fifth or sixth surgery in as many years. As is often the case when families come together in times of crisis, unresolved issues among family members surfaced, leaving me weary and drained. The experience [...]
As a young man visiting a friend in the Twin Cities, I had driven out to see the original house used in The Mary Tyler Moore Show television series. I stood admiring the classic, multimillion dollar home, a stunning Queen Anne Victorian built in 1892. “Man, what do you do to live in a house [...]