The end of the year is a great time to be grateful. So let’s consider what might sound like a somewhat strange gratitude prompt: what obstacles did you encounter this year? Grateful for obstacles? It makes sense to be grateful for goals achieved, battles won, successes secured, and blessings received, but obstacles? Yes, we …
In coaching, the best question is usually the simplest. With this principle in mind, it’s easy to see why the best question to ask at the beginning of a coaching conversation is “What would you like to talk about today?” Other versions of this question are just as simple and just as effective: What’s …
On the morning of August 7, 1974, Philippe Petit spent nearly an hour walking back and forth between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Had he been strolling on the sidewalk this would have been no big deal. However, Petit’s walk that morning was via a cable he and his co-conspirators had …
Life is full of temptations and some temptations are distinct to a particular calling. For those of us called to be coaches, the temptations we face pull us away from effectiveness and toward mediocrity (or downright failure!). The worst kind of temptation is the one we didn’t realize was a temptation – we just …
