“What'll ya have, Sweetie?” These words once evoked sheer terror, but now fulfill my dreams. A while back, when I was just starting to go out to eat, I came across this restaurant.   It was exciting.  Here is was, a place that could give me any kind of food I wanted....

"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays." -Robert Preston as Professor Harold Hill in “The Music Man” (1962) I love this quote.  This funny thing is, I saw this movie about 30 years ago, and then was...

The other day I was talking with a client, and she uttered the dreadful "B-word." I almost collapsed in shock and horror. I mean, when we Designed our Alliance, we covered language considerations--and we built in permission for the occasional "S-word" that may pop out...

When I was going through my early stages of coach training, I was convinced that it was me.  In fact, in my Supervision calls in Certification, I got a rating of a "1".  This is when the Supervisor and I would listen to one of my coaching calls that I did with one of...

Let's take a few moments to learn life lessons from my sweet and nutty beagle, Ivy. You see, being a beagle, Ivy loves to chase rabbits.  It's her blessing and good fortune that we live right next to an empty lot where bunnies flock.  Sometimes if she's lucky, one...

“Aren’t you worried about your exam?” Nope.  I’m confident I will pass, and I figure if I don’t, then there’s something important to learn. I had that conversation six years ago at an ICF conference.  I had already long past achieved my PCC status and was well on my...

Working with my Gremlins/Saboteurs can be quite tiring.  It seems that every time I turn around, they've got some "reason" or other as to why I shouldn't do something--I don't deserve it, I'm not good enough, it won't work.  Their beating can be quite relentless,...

I have the most notorious luck with pants.  Invariably, I can't last a week with a new pair before there is some sort of unfortunate stain embedded into the fibers—ink, wine, hot sauce, curry, you name it, it's probably been on my pants. So I end up going to J.C....

OK, how many of us are having coaching calls and they aren't feeling like they're connecting with our Values?  There's no sense of excitement, play, acknowledgement, discovery, etc...?  And as we all know, if our Values aren't being stimulated, then where is our...

No, try not! Do or not do, there is no try" -master Jedi Yoda. from "The Empire Strikes Back." (1980) Master Yoda's got something there.  What's the point of attempting something if you're not going to set out to do your best?  If you're going to commit to something,...