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“OMG, don’t get me started on self talk”, said a coaching client to me the other day.  “I am so sick of how I sabotage myself, day in and day out.  Why am I so hard on myself when I’m not like that with my friends and colleagues?”  Great question.   WHAT prompts us to be…

 I often get asked what’s the difference between an Executive Coach, a Career Coach and a Life Coach?  Here’s my take. It’s less about the Coach’s specialty and more about the kind of coaching being requested and by whom. I’m the kind of coach who coaches the whole person. No matter what position that person…

Worrying is using your imagination to create something you do not want!!!  I loved this quote the first time I saw it.  And then I started thinking about how I’d been a pretty good worrier all my life.  And yet I never thought of myself as particularly imaginative.  So it turned out that I have…

Here’s my one piece of advice right now about BRANDING…  Personal Branding that is. Make damn sure it’s authentic. Establishing your personal brand means zilch if it’s not really you.  Here’s a short story that may help you keep it simple when you are trying to figure out what you stand for in relation to…

I’m going to make this real quick and simple, because I do appreciate that you read my short blogs-but since I didn’t know all of these FACTS, and hey, I’m a Coach… I figure you probably don’t know most of this either. So, I invite you to take 45 seconds and I guarantee you’ll learn…

I’ll bet you know someone who wakes up every morning with a smile on their face because they get to work at what they love. It’s like a perfect fit. Whatever their work is, this person is doing what they were meant to do… this person is so lucky, because they get to work at…

A few weeks ago I got a thank you note from an individual I had coached for a six-month period of time. She wanted to let me know what the coaching experience had done to change her world, her life, her self. Here’s an excerpt of her note: “I can never thank you enough for…

Yesterday was a fun day for me. I got to rent a car and drive down to another part of the province where I had five meetings lined up with employees of a large manufacturing plant that is in the process of closing down. I’m their career transition consultant. My job is to help them…

So often, we dream about what might be.After all, what a wonderful and delicious topic to give thought to… our future. But too often we do so without honoring the past. Here’s my take on that. Sometimes we believe that if we ‘dwell’ in the past, we can’t move forward. But there’s value in honoring…

I recently saw a video blog post on Youtube from the Harvard Business Review. It features Professor Dorie Clark, of Duke University. This 3 minute post is so good, I’m planning to incorporate it in the Effective Job Search workshop that I facilitate at the company where I do some career transition consulting work (Knightsbridge…