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The Morning Flood

September 14, 2010
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What Change Looks Like

September 12, 2010

When people first hire a coach–or take any big step to change their life–things start happening with surprising speed. Here’s a scenario I see all the time: Someone contacts me about coaching. We chat; they decide to go ahead with it. Between their decision to work with me and our first session together, things start [...]

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Affirm and Add

August 17, 2010

One of the training tools we used in my training to become a master coach was improv comedy. The word “improv” incites sheer panic for a control freak like myself. Standing up in front of these people, whose approval I cared way too much about, trying to be funny on the spot? No preparation, no [...]

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What to do with your patterns

July 29, 2010

You’ve uncovered some of your patterns. Now what? Patterns, like fears, are kind of like zoo animals. They don’t respond well to taunting. And they didn’t do anything wrong, so there’s no reason to be mean to them, anyway. Please don’t use them to beat yourself up and don’t get mad at them or blame [...]

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Can you embrace feeling like sh*%t?

June 21, 2010

Where did we get the belief that we’re supposed to always feel good? We’re not. Feeling like shit once in a while makes our life so much better. It provides contrast. It shows us what we don’t want and motivates us to find what we do want. In nature there is chaos before clarity. The [...]

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Yesterday = Today = Tomorrow

June 8, 2010

Think about the state of your life today. Your relationships, your career, your physical surroundings, your level of happiness, your body, your mental habits. Do you ever wonder how you got here?   Everything in your life today is due to your consciousness in the recent past. Our creations aren’t instant (although they can be); [...]

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