Blog – Concepts That Create Distinctions

  Even though I am a Master Certified Coach, I still procrastinate. For whatever reason, I put off reading CS Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy (aka Space Trilogy) until I was in my fifties. Once I finally got around to reading it, I was delighted with the books, and I felt like kicking myself for putting it

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  Every coach wants clients, and to get a steady stream of clients requires something that looks a lot like sales. The very word, sales, makes most of us cringe. In the 1980’s movie, Say Anything, John Cusack’s character Lloyd Dobler is asked by his girlfriend’s father what he wants to do with his life.

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  I am a bit embarrassed to admit that I was in my twenties before I started brushing my teeth at night.  I brushed every morning (who can stand morning breath?!), but I had just never established the habit of brushing before bed.  That changed with my first cavity and a conversation with my dentist. 

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  Sometimes coaching can be a frustrating, challenging, and tiresome job.  I experienced many of the pains of coaching all in one week recently:  Two no-show clients.  A client who came ready to complain, but not ready to work.  Partners and vendors who seemed hell-bent on making my job harder, not easier.  Technology woes that

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  There is no better time to be present than… well… the present. Only those who are present will affect the future, and the problem is that those who at least appear to be present, those who are often the most aggressive, aren’t the ones I hope will direct the future. Let me give you

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  New Yorker reporter Charles Duhigg is out to help you and me become better communicators.  In fact, he has uncovered some wisdom that will help us be “super communicators” – people who know how to recognize what kind of conversation they are in and then are capable of using the right skills for making

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