Ordinary Life, Extraordinary Living

Life Lessons

Asking for What You Want

At the ICF conference, there were several people who I kept running into throughout the week. This is at a conference of over 1600 coaches. So I began to look deeper at what the message might be. One of these...

Chance Meetings

While I was at a coaching conference last week, I had a chance to stop by a booth on Building a Better Blog. I had fun being a guest blogger on a site called Blog Squad Live!, set up to...

Networking, Naturally

I was recently solicited by a coaching training school to write an article about networking for their newsletter. After writing the article, I decided to also submit it to a women's on-line group, WorldWIT. The article was published in WorldWIT's...

Wholeness and Making Meaning

Today is the second day of the International Coach Federation conference. I didn't think I would be blogging much while away from home. But what I've found is that when I'm in a new setting, writing helps me make meaning...

Airline Travel in the 21st Century

Seems odd to say 21st century. When I was a kid, I imagined that air travel would be glamorous and somewhat magical in the 21st century. Think of JFK and Jackie O debarking from Air Force One, down the steps...

1,600 Coaches in One Room

I'm off to the annual International Coach Federation conference. The conference is sold out with 1,600 coaches attending. It's a chance for people who have seen each other on-line or in teleclasses to meet in the flesh. I keep wondering...

A Different Kind of Musical Experience

Last night, I attended the debut of the Baroque Orchestra of Colorado. You may have remembered from a previous post, this is culmination of a 10 year dream for my friend and coaching client, Frank Nowell. Several things struck me...

People Who Make a Difference

Just found out about a research project on ordinary people who make a difference in the lives of others. Sponsored by an organization that does training on Emotional Intelligence, here's how one of the researchers talks about the project: "In...

Visiting Foreign Lands

I found a blog about creative collaboration, one of my favorite topics. The blogger, Denzil Meyers, has a foot in the theatre world and a foot in the coaching world. His clients are ad agencies teams and other partnerships whose...

When Dreams DON’T Come True

The wonderful thing about blogs is that as a writer, I finally have a place to publish my short musings, those fragments of thoughts that haven't amounted to much except another short word file on my laptop. So here's one...