A business coach recently asked me, “who’s running your show?”. I responded with certainty. “I am.” I am a business of ONE. He then followed up with, “who’s in charge of marketing and sales right now?” I paused. Then I saw which part of me likes to take over marketing and selling: The part of me that considers talking or
One of the biggest challenges to living our best life, is loving and accepting ourselves as we are. We are constantly optimizing for happiness, performance, income, personal growth, and success. In the midst of this chase, this self-improvement project, we tend to forget who we are at the core. The essence of our being that is deserving of love and
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek – Joseph Campbell It happened on the last day of my coach training course. I was sitting on the conference room floor with another participant. The early spring sun was beaming through the windows. We were in the middle of an exercise on fierce courage when she reflected
“The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habit of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities.” + When I transitioned from Medicine to Coaching, my mind had to make the shift from expert, who knew (many of) the answers, to beginner. Not only in the sense of learning a new skill, but
Finding the courage to pivot and change careers is a key element to living our best lives. This episode features the inspiring story of Dr. Karen Barnard, who after a 30 year career in medicine leapt into the arms of her intuition and began a new calling as a personal coach. Karen talks about how to know if it’s time
Patience is an essential ingredient in our life journey. It holds together our close relationships, our careers, and our becoming our best selves. I was reminded of this truth recently as I was reviewing the growth pace of my business. I had seen an advertisement on social media for a “business accelerator” course. Fortunately, at about the same time, I
A friend just told me that he did his first ever yoga class today. He had been avoiding yoga because of a story. As a young boy, he compared his athletic abilities to the other boys in gym class, and concluded that he was “not flexible”. He went through much of his adult life believing that his lack of flexibility
Most of us have two lives. The life we live and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands the Resistance. – Steven Pressfield Any time we want to start a creative project, a new habit, or do something that requires emotional labor, we experience something Steven Pressfield calls “The Resistance”1. The resistance leads to procrastination. There is a
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes, but no plans” Peter F. Drucker How do you keep the promises you make to yourself? Let’s face it, life gets in the way of our best intentions. But we have a powerful force on our side. Commitment. What are your associations with the word commitment? Burden, responsibility, and obligation?
Just like a fever may point to an underlying infection, an emotion may point to internal turbulence, to what needs attention now. We usually don’t ignore fever, so why do we sometimes step over, push away or bottle up emotion? We must attend to our emotions with the same care we bring to a fever. This topic feels especially important
