As professional coaches, we are familiar with limiting beliefs – those assumptions, perceptions, thoughts, and attitudes that hold people back. We see the impact of such beliefs with our clients on a regular basis and in a variety of forms: A business owner believes her worth is found in her professional success. A salesman […]
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In my work with leaders and organizations, trust is a perennial topic of coaching sessions. This focus makes sense. After all, when an organization is trying to perform at a high level, trust is a necessary ingredient (perhaps THE necessary ingredient). Why? Because the need for trust is everywhere. It’s a factor in communication,
Warning: this is not a blog post on weight loss. You’ll need to look elsewhere for that. Instead, this is a reflection about what I learned from steadily gaining weight over the course of about 15 years. My hope is that what I learned might be helpful to others. Again, I am NOT trying
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Sometimes otherwise positive messages get absorbed too deeply into one’s psyche. Here’s an example from my own life: “Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” I grew up playing sports. So have my three children. I must have heard this saying over a hundred times in those contexts, and, for the most part, it
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