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Ten years ago, when I started my journey to become a professional Coach, I had no idea how much I would learn. Sure, I figured I’d learn how to be a Coach. I’d learn some key coaching skills and tools. I’d learn how to develop a coaching business… But I had no idea how much…

The Value of Practice So often, when I’m in a coaching conversation with a client, they’ll make a statement something like this: “I wish I was better at ________”. I mean really, you can fill in the blank from your own life I’m sure. Better at being a loving partner, better at being a good…

The other day I was taking a walk and encountered a woman walking four dogs. We got to talking and she told me a bit of her story. You see, she walks dogs for a living. Several of them in fact. It’s her business now. But dog walking wasn’t always what she did. She had…

Funny thing about having a Storm Day. We can turn it into whatever we want it to be. It can be such a gift. Or create a crisis. We can see it as a good thing or a not so good thing. It’s really all about perspective, isn’t it? I recall a ‘storm day’ last…

Recently I’ve been learning a lesson that in some ways I wish I had learned at a younger age. But perhaps I wouldn’t have appreciated it so joyfully if that had been the case. You’ve heard the expression, “We are Human Beings, not Human Doings”. I’m talking about stepping away from the pace of work,…

One of my clients once said to me:  “Wendy, what’s the relevance of doing an exercise to uncover my values when I’ve hired you to help me figure out what’s the right next job for me?” I was so glad he asked me that question. Because we were in a coaching session and involved in…

Ah…. One of my favorite topics.  How many times a day do we make assumptions? And sometimes, I’ll admit, we are ‘bang on’, accurate and correct.  And we feel oh so pumped up because our assumption turned out to be true… and we were right… and that feels good. And so we develop a pattern…

So often we can get stuck in a rut about what we believe to be true.  And that belief doesn’t much serve us well. I think that long ago, I used to believe that when a rainy day appeared all my plans were ruined and I’d have a boring kind of a day. But not…

I recently read an article about the ratio of play time to study time for children. Unless you too have read the item, you probably weren’t aware that in Finland, school children are given a 15 minute recess break EVERY HOUR.  And it’s been proven, in study after study, not to mention the anecdotal evidence…

The Ladder of Inference is one of those wonderful ‘models’ I learned about when I studied to be a Coach back in 2005.  I hadn’t heard of it before, but once I absorbed the diagram it all became oh so clear. It’s a useful model to know about.  It helps us in our own self…