Ideas for a Better Life

It takes a pretty good book to keep my interest until the last page. I’ve started countless books only to put them down after 50 or 100 pages. Fortunately, A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink is not one of them. Daniel Pink is the author of Free Agent Nation (which I have not read)…

I’m reading a wonderful book, A Whole New Mind, by Daniel Pink. More on the book later but I wanted to tell you about an intriguing concept that’s discussed in the book-laughter clubs as a way of boosting our joyfulness and productivity as human beings. Go to www.laughteryoga.org to find out more.

A prospective coaching client asked me this provocative question. It spoke to walking the talk, eating my own dog food, and living the results of what I believe in. I have paid for formal coaching. I’ve swapped coaching with colleagues I respect and admire. And I have been the beneficiary of people who brought coaching…

I had an extraordinary experience recently. I hosted a relaxing Thanksgiving dinner for my family. Yes, relaxing. And no, we didn’t have it catered or eat out at a restaurant. It was a home-cooked meal (mostly). My husband and I noticed the lack of stress, both the day before Thanksgiving and at the start of…

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 repeated encounters was with a coach, Mark D’Ambrosio. Mark’s story is remarkable in that he…