The Personal Journey
What 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…
Read MoreDream Shrinkage
I received an email from a new client. I had asked him to fill out a form with a series of questions like, "If life were as good as it gets, what’s there?" These questions help the client express his deepest desires and dreams. This client’s comment after filling out the questionaire was startling: "Can…
Read MoreThe Path to Reinvention
A client of mine pointed me to an article in the current issue of Newsweek: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16608336/site/newsweek/from/ET/ The article is entitled, "The First Day of the Rest of My Life." The author, Sara Davidson, is a baby-boomer, established as a writer with several published books, and a recent transplant from LA to Boulder. A few notes…
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