On Commitment
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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Structure Rules!
Our lives, work and relationships are underlain and influenced by (usually) unseen guiding systems and structures. These powerful structures arise…
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Own Your Results; Reap Your Rewards
Experience is not what happens to you; experience is what you do with what happens to you.—Aldous Huxley When adversity…
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Top Four Techniques For Coping With Covid
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails. —Cora L. V. Hatch, 1859 Resilient people rise above…
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Becoming Resilient In Challenging Times
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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How Do I Thrive; Not Just Survive?
There are 3 types of people in life: victims, survivors and thrivers. Victims allow bad experiences to define their life….
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Create What Matters Most — In Challenging Times and Beyond
Mastering my Life/Work Organizing Framework helps you envision, plan, act, and consistently bring into being your most desired results. Because…
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What If Money Was No Object?
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 Life Gets Too Hard
Many folks find today’s world a complex, complicated, and confusing challenge. Strange weather and climate. Strange politics. Disruptive technology. Things…
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Top 5 Life Design Posts of 2019
I often get asked what blog posts get the most reads, and feedback from readers. Checking my summaries for last…
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Simplify For Real, Lasting Success
When potential personal life coaching clients first approach me, most come with a mix of problems, issues and vaguely conceived…
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6 POWERFUL SKILLS FOR CRAFTING NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS THAT WORK
8220;Quitting smoking is easy!” quipped Ken. “I’ve done it hundreds of times.” Ken made resolutions, but they rarely produced lasting…
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Good Enough Is Good Enough
If at first you don’t succeed / Try, try again. — William Edward Hickson “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter….
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Top 7 Reasons Why Goal-Setting Fails
8220;People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals, that is goals that do not inspire them.” — Anthony Robbins…
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Structural Coaching For Writers
Often, a manuscript will have all the parts and pieces, but they’re not organized for clarity, flow and impact. It’s…
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Finding Purpose — A Kind Of Mini-Memoir
8220;Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”William Cowper…
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The Black Dog of Depression
This is the time of year in the northern hemisphere when depression is on the rise. For two reasons: The…
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Three Nutty Beliefs That Sabotage Success
8220;There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”— Shakespeare, Hamlet The Cognitive Behavioural Psychologist, Albert Ellis,…
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The Simplicity On The Other Side Of Complexity
8220;I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I’d give my life for…
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Pathway To Results-From Fit To Stretch
8220;Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty…
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WHAT DO YOU REALLY WANT TO CREATE?
“True vocation is that work in which the world’s deep hunger and our deep gladness meet.” — Frederick Buechner Buechner…
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Positive Emotions—Key To A Flourishing Life?
“Flourishing encompasses both feeling satisfied with your life and also functioning well in it. The way psychologists assess the second…
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Simplicity? Success? Why Not Both?
“Find something that you truly care about— and live a life that shows it.” — Kate Wolf I have been…
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The Structure of Success
You are like a river. You go through life taking the path of least resistance. The underlying structure of your…
