On Commitment
Mountaineer W.H. Murray summed up the importance of commitment in his account of the 1950 Scottish Himalayan Expedition, in The…
My first client was Sharon Wood, 1st N. American woman to summit Mount Everest, in 1986. I helped her reinvent herself as a motivational speaker. As an Associate of the Action Studies Institute, I designed programs for developing generic skills for business and education. I was an Advanced Instructor for Robert Fritz’s Technologies for Creating program. I contributed briefing notes to Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline Handbook. I developed a Coach Training Program for Peer Resources in Victoria, BC. I’ve helped numerous coaches set up and implement their practices.
Mountaineer W.H. Murray summed up the importance of commitment in his account of the 1950 Scottish Himalayan Expedition, in The…
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Experience is not what happens to you; experience is what you do with what happens to you.—Aldous Huxley When adversity…
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails. —Cora L. V. Hatch, 1859 Resilient people rise above…
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails.—Cora L. V. Hatch, 1859 They bend with the storm,…
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Mastering my Life/Work Organizing Framework helps you envision, plan, act, and consistently bring into being your most desired results. Because…
Many of the clients I work with have trouble, at first, identifying what they most want to do in life,…
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When potential personal life coaching clients first approach me, most come with a mix of problems, issues and vaguely conceived…
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If at first you don’t succeed / Try, try again. — William Edward Hickson “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter….
8220;People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals, that is goals that do not inspire them.” — Anthony Robbins…
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“True vocation is that work in which the world’s deep hunger and our deep gladness meet.” — Frederick Buechner Buechner…
“Flourishing encompasses both feeling satisfied with your life and also functioning well in it. The way psychologists assess the second…
“Find something that you truly care about— and live a life that shows it.” — Kate Wolf I have been…
You are like a river. You go through life taking the path of least resistance. The underlying structure of your…
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