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Glimmers and Getting Unstuck
A short list of insights and learnings about people and business, gathered from over 800 hours of coaching sessions.
Games for Life
Whether it’s a quest adventure, a turn-based strategy, or a word puzzle, games have always been a part of my life. As is seeking help through their challenges.
What you can’t help doing
“What is it that you can't help doing?” It's the question that opened up new worlds for me. Maybe it does for you, too.
Breaking Out of Prison
How I turned a serious confinement into a madcap escape. And fled my job gracefully.
We are not failing, we are successfully iterating
We often measure our progress by the old tried-and-true metrics. But how do we evaluate success when we’re attempting something even greater?
The coaching session is less important than what happens after
The real work begins when the session ends. It can be challenging at times, always rewarding, and often fun, too.
Listening works better when you don’t have a clue
Sometimes knowing stuff gets in the way of listening. By setting that aside, we can hear what’s not being said and get to the true work.
How long is a piece of string?
We often think we need to know more than we do to get started. The truth is, we can trust the process and figure it out as we go.
Coaching demystified — what actually happens in a session
Frustrated by the representation of coaching in the BBC series, “A Very British Cult”, I wrote a quick walk-through of what actually happens in a coaching session.
10,000 hours is not enough
The prevailing wisdom was wrong. It’s not about the hours, but how you make them count. Follow the White Rabbit for a different view on how we master our craft.
Right-sizing and Right-shaping your goals
The Accomplishment Triad is all about the courage, effort, and skill needed to feel good about your work. Here we take this concept even further with right-sizing and right-shaping our goals.
The key to finding your treasure
The reason why we do things s because of how we think we'll feel. Conversely, the reason why we don't do things is because there is something we don't want to feel.
Using sociolinguistics in coaching sessions
Using coaching and linguistics skills to gain deeper insights on what my clients may be experiencing in their lives as they go through change.