The Personal Journey
What Are You Waiting For?
I was recently approached by someone setting up a business to provide resources to job seekers in a niche market. She wanted my feedback on providing coaching services to job seekers and wondered if I was interested in being one of the coaching resources. My first reaction? Job seekers are often desperate people and I…
Read MoreBeing Well-Used
I recently published an article on HR.com on what it means to serve others well. It’s taken from my experience in working with teams, but I’m guessing that it describes other types of situations around service. Would love to hear your own experiences of being well-used–what it looks like, how it feels, when you experience…
Read MoreWhat Are You Attracting?
As I was journaling this morning, I came up with a set of questions that was revealing about the current state of my life: What am I attracting? The list ranged from "friends who are struggling with teens" to "laughter–with my kids, my husband, my clients, my colleagues" to "great executive coaching clients." I also…
Read MoreGrowing Older
A friend, George, read my featured article for this month and had this response: My life is changing as important, and loved, people in my life are dying off. I’ve kept a list, not too carefully, from 1995 (when I was 73), and the list of important people in my life who have died now…
Read MoreChange Is Hard
A friend sent me recent article from the Washington Post on change, based on a journal paper from the American Academy of Family Physicians. The "Stages of Change" model describes five stages that people go through before making a successful change in behavior: Precontemplation–no desire to change Contemplation–ambivalent about change Preparation–experiment with small changes Action–purposeful…
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