To ring in the new year, we celebrate with family and close friends. We enjoy a fine meal, champagne and entertain ourselves by staging ‘No Talent’ shows that are as fun for the people ‘performing’ as those watching.
Now you know you’re partying with a coach when, close to midnight, everyone is handed (more…)
The other week we traveled to San Diego to attend the memorial for a dear friend of ours. I met John while in college, and he and his wife were the host family for the cute exchange student who was later to become (more…)
I’m spending Thanksgiving in Germany this year. This means that I transported stuffing, gravy mix and pumpkin pie fixings eight thousand miles in order to cook all day for my husband’s bewildered family.
Thanksgiving is more than a harvest festival. Our founders crossed the ocean in cramped quarters and found home just in time for a bitter winter that the majority did not survive. In the Spring, Native Americans offered to help the pilgrims learn how to farm. When they celebrated the harvest together that Fall, the pilgrims knew they had survived the beginning of their journey and would be able to live in their land of promise.
We are all on journeys. On any day we can tap into our gratitude or feel like we’re standing with empty hands. Thanksgiving is our possibility to take a moment to be grateful to ourselves, for the help and grace shown by others, and the overwhelming beauty of having opportunity at all.
I’m sending you my sincere thanks for reading this blog and participating in the Juncture Community.
Wishing you moments of peace and profound gratitude on our uniquely American holiday.
Just like any parent of a young child, these days I’m training my daughter to appreciate others and their acts of kindness by saying “Thank you”. We’re all trained to be sincerely grateful for good luck, blessings and gifts from people and the universe. Yet, oddly enough, we rarely get into the habit of thanking ourselves. (more…)
I’ve been giving a number of radio interviews in support of our upcoming book, Winning Without Compromising Yourself. It’s led to many great conversations about the end of wedge issues, and (more…)
I just returned from the annual meeting of the International Coach Federation. It’s a great time to connect with my colleagues from around the world and spend time with friends who I respect so much that I’m always pleasantly amazed and grateful that I can contribute to them! (more…)
What secret would you most like to free yourself of?
Imagine opening a book and discovering that a postcard had been slipped between the pages with a stamp, an address, and an invitation to send in your secret. What would you write? Would you trust your secret to the post office, even anonymously? (more…)
Pre-traumatic stress disorder is a term I invented once on a coaching call. I was working with a client who was in absolute anguish over something she had convinced herself was going to happen. Even though my term is about as pop-psychology as it gets, in the years since that call, I’ve seen many clients consumed with pre-living disastrous scenarios that they misperceive as being real. (more…)
Most everything I ever needed to know about focus I learned one summer at the pool. I was about ten when I took my first diving class. The instructor was a pretty high school student who told us not to look down at the water, or we would fall into the pool without meaning to. I didn’t believe her; I mean who had so little coordination they would just fall in by looking? (more…)
Warning: Reading this (at the wrong time) can impair your ability!
A fascinating clinical study found that the IQ of workers who juggled phone calls, e-mails, text messages and their work fell by 10 points during the course of the day. 10 points are the equivalent of a whole night’s sleep. (more…)
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