Some of us are blessed. We get to choose our work, and often are at liberty to choose something that we love, as our life’s work. You know in your core that you are working within your true vocation. Then there’s everybody else. Or so it seems. For the rest of us it seems that…

There are some people who know from an early age, what they want to be when they grow up. My brother was one of those people. From the time he was about eight years old, he discovered music . Our parents bought him a recorder and then he moved on to the flute. He’s made…

What’s the difference between the two, and how do you decide who you are looking for… a coach or a consultant? Well, it depends on what your particular situation is. So here are a few basics to keep in mind from my perspective. Professional coaches are experts in coaching. They’re probably also pretty good at…

As a life coach, I’m continuously in conversation with my clients about what’s important to them. And when I have sessions with my own life coach, I get to talk about what’s important to me. But there’s another kind of conversation I really enjoy having. It’s the one I have with myself. I always start…

The other day I was coaching one of my clients who had never really set firm goals for herself. So we talked about the pros and cons and what it would be like to set some. There was some trepidation for sure. There often is with any of us who are about to tackle something…

Many of my executive, career and life coaching clients get frustrated when they can’t seem to fit everything they want to do, into their week. Sound like you? Read on for one easy way to figure out two things; How you are currently spending your time and planning how you’d like it to be different.…

There’s a ton of self help books and blogs and web sites and videos on the market today. Here’s what I’ve found just about every one of them has in common: What we give our attention to is what we attract to us. There are all kinds of names or titles or ways of saying…

In my life coaching practice I’m often amazed at how many folks haven’t adopted a way to  organize their Email folders.  Although this is not a topic that we spend a lot of time on in our coaching, it is something I address in the Business Etiquette workshop I’m offering starting this fall.  Folks who…

How many times do you wish you were better at handling tough situations?  “I wish I hadn’t stressed out so much”, “I feel really bad I blew up at that person who was just trying to do their job”, “If only I’d thought that one through ahead of time”.  Let’s face it- we aren’t perfect…

Today three things arrived that made me feel a whole lot better. I’ve been in bed, sick with a brutal virus that has required me to cancel all my coaching clients for the week, take hot baths and gargle a lot to try and get my voice back.  But I digress.  The three things were…