Coaching Tips

What stops you? This is a question I often ask my clients. What stops you from changing jobs, leaving a bad relationship, writing that book? There’s always a reason, sometimes a whole truckload of them: what if the new job doesn’t work out, what if I can’t find another love, what if the book doesn’t…

On the road today and thought I would share with you some comments I received from a group I worked with. There were about 30 participants and we spent half a day together. Recently, Lynne Brown (Orca Consulting) facilitated a visioning workshop for the Embroiderers’ Association of Canada.  Lynne led us, a diverse group, through…

In changing our lives we are often tempted to do it all and do it all at once. I have a friend who decided to quit smoking, give up white flour and sugar. She was a woman who suffered from panic attacks and in the week after starting her new regime she was having at…

Well that got your attention didn’t it? We all have fears,even the people who deny them. We may have fears about, money, health, death, the end of a relationship, business failure, job loss. The list is endless and the number of books that are written on this topic are almost as endless. So, what can…

I was at a meeting with a group of women last night. We got talking about our mutual hobby and one of the women was saying she had finished 30 projects in the last year. I was impressed and said ” wow, you must almost be done” Her reply was: “No, I still have almost…

I read a post by Seth Godin last week on the importance of saying Yes. Yes to opportunities and change. It’s hard to disagree with that.Yet saying No can be empowering and freeing, so let’s talk about that. It’s half an hour before the end of the day and a colleague wants you to complete…

And perhaps that title should be, how do You measure success? There are a lot of books, blogs and speakers out there all defining success as mostly a material thing. You measure your success by your car, your home your toys and your clothes. There are an equal number of writers and speakers who decry…

It seems wherever you look these days someone is writing about gratitude, and the inference is that if you feel gratitude all good things will come your way. Want a new car, feel grateful. Need a new home, feel grateful. The list is endless and too often the part that is missing is the work…

Happy New Year and welcome 2013. For me, 2012 was not as wonderful as I had hoped so I am looking forward to 2013. Part of that looking forward is clearing my desk of old projects, post its, scrap pieces of paper and all the other debris that floats around a desk. I am also…

PREPARATION Over the last couple of blogs we have looked at the issues of procrastination and perfectionism, this week we are going to review preparation? What does that mean? It means that before you make those New Year’s resolutions you need to do a bit of preparation. Did you know that the top three resolutions…