December 30, 2008
- WHAT ARE YOU DOING NEW YEAR’S EVE? How About Doing a Fun Coaching Process?
Remember the old song with the lyrics, “What are you doing New Year’s, New Year’s Eve?”? Although that song has nothing to do with coaching it comes to mind when thinking of a great coaching process that is especially effective when done on New Year’s Eve. Of course, it can be done any day of [...]
December 10, 2008
- WORKING WITH A BOOK AS YOUR COACH
If you are reading this because you have purchased our book Your Life Your Way: The Essential Guide for Women and want to know how best to work with it – we suggest you imagine that the book is your coach and design how you want to work with it and how you are going [...]
December 5, 2008
- TAKING OTHERS INTO ACCOUNT
As humans we are great at giving people the benefit of our advice and guiding them into what we would like. Here’s a story from a friend of ours - Anita Costa - who describes such a situation . . and puts another perspective on what is happening.
A couple of weeks ago, my partner and [...]
December 1, 2008
- CYBER MONDAY…Yikes!
This time I am not confused by the shopping terminology designated for today, Cyber Monday (the Monday after Black Friday which was the day after Thanksgiving)! I saw the term in the newspaper this morning and read the first few lines so I understood what it meant. These retailers are getting very creative with their marketing.
So, today [...]
November 25, 2008
- BLACK FRIDAY….HUH?
It’s a good feeling when we can laugh at ourselves and this morning I had the pleasure of doing just that! I’ll back up and tell you why—I’m still smiling too!
As I took a quick glance at the list of emails that had come in this morning, I saw some with Black Friday in the [...]
November 23, 2008
- THANKSGIVING DAY, Thursday, November 27, 2008
Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. was always the official beginning of the Christmas holiday season highlighted by the arrival of Santa Claus at the Thanksgiving Day parade. Things have really changed in the past few years though. Now, once Halloween is over, we begin to see Christmas decorations in the stores and Santa Claus is [...]
November 21, 2008
- FEAR OF CHANGE - Part Two
In Part One we suggested that if you were considering making a significant change in your life you should invest a good deal of time in imagining what the change you want would look like.
There is a physiological reason for focusing on the ‘what’ in this way. We are building up a new neurological pathway [...]
November 14, 2008
- FEAR OF CHANGE - Part One
As we watch the world stage again, and in particular the impending change of residency at the White House, how many people are truly frightened of the changes that a different regime might bring? This is global level stuff – any changes are likely to affect a significant number of people in significant ways . [...]
November 10, 2008
- EXPERIENCES ALONG THE ROCKY ROAD
In October I had two experiences on the rocky road of marketing that I want to share. I exhibited our book, Your Life Your Way, at the 4th Annual Macomb County Women’s Expo “Create a Better You” and I conducted a mini-workshop for women at Henry Ford Macomb Hospitals.
I’ll start with the expo—it is sponsored [...]
October 29, 2008
- The Art of Being a Good Client
Working with our six Magnificent Women – none of whom has ever been coached before - has reminded us that there is an art to being a good client.
As coaches it’s an honour to have clients who want to make a significant change in their lives. Taking on a life coach is not an easy [...]
October 21, 2008
- POSITIVITY IN THE MIDST OF CHAOS
The global financial crisis and the upcoming presidential election in the U.S. has reminded us of an article we posted about three months ago titled “”Staying Positive When Life’s Hard”. Right now, life does seem VERY hard for many people. And our guess is that just about all of us are experiencing a wide range [...]
October 15, 2008
- GLOBAL TESTOSTERONE IS DEAD!
Like most people I have been watching what has been occurring on the global financial stage – the mess that has been created through greed, playing with high odds and people’s lives. I wonder how something as unsubstantial as money can be treated as if it were a tangible product. And I would just love [...]
October 9, 2008
- DOES ANYBODY LISTEN THESE DAYS?
Synchronicity has been at work again, pointing us to what we need to write about next. In a discussion, we both realized we have been drawn to noticing in the course of our everyday lives just how much people simply don’t listen to others—and certainly don’t pick up the energy of the people with whom [...]
September 23, 2008
- IT WAS ONLY A GAME OF CARDS
At least that’s what I thought as I sat down to play a game of cribbage with my husband, a male friend and my uncle of 88 years. Then they started about the ‘rules’ of the game. Britain may be a very tiny country in comparison with the US but believe me, it would appear [...]
September 14, 2008
- SIX MAGNIFICENT WOMEN
Yes, we have our six Magnificent women who are about to start their change journey with us and we’ll be presenting updates from time to time.
We have been musing on the selection process itself for it’s been an extremely interesting one and the question we keep asking ourselves is “did we choose them? Or did [...]
August 27, 2008
- DEALING WITH THOUGHTLESSNESS…….”My baby doesn’t have severe problems like your baby”
Most of us when younger were told to think before you speak which is, no doubt, good advice. What we were not told is specifically what we are to think about and what else might we do to help us communicate effectively. Many of us may only stop to think if what we are ready [...]
August 19, 2008
- CLUELESS ON RADIO
A few weeks ago we were interviewed for the first time for a radio program (we’ve since had two more radio interviews). We’ve been reflecting on how differently we approached the prospect of doing radio interviews compared to how we might have—“might”?—no, we’re “sure” of how we would have dealt with the prospect of being [...]
August 12, 2008
- STAYING POSITIVE WHEN LIFE’S HARD
Yes, it’s pretty easy to stay positive when things are going well and life is hunky-dory. You know, the times when you feel really well, full of vigor; the times relationships are easy and fulfilling; the time you feel valued, seen, respected; when you are engaged in activity that brings you joy. In other words, [...]
August 5, 2008
- Many Ways to Celebrate!
My birthday is this month (August) and I am doing something new for me. Several weeks ago I decided that I would not only celebrate my birthday on the actual day but that I would celebrate in some way each day of the month in honor of my life. I thought this was such a unique idea, [...]
July 25, 2008
- ENERGY AND AUTHENTICITY
We talk a lot about energy - someone’s ‘energy’ and how they come over to another person. We are great at sensing when this is authentic energy or when it is being created from an ego point of view. Generally speaking we learn how not to be beguiled by someone’s energy when it is not [...]
