Feedback rocks
Dude, thanks for the two links to my ABC’s of Life Coaching column and the gratuitous potshot:
Get a life coach? No, get a life
New York, New York
Every so often, there’s nothing like this Friday night formula — a terrific friend, shopping in Midtown, strolling in SoHo, and dinner in Little Italy.
And then a little old man smiling and asking how my gelato tastes.
“Very good,” I say of my hazelnut scoop.
“Sweet treat will bring you sweet dreams,” he says.
Now I’m the one smiling.
Back to the basics
The latest Game Plan is up live and it’s all about the ABC’s of life coaching. I get asked a lot of questions about my profession. For example, what’s the difference between coaching and therapy? The answers are here:
Leadership and possibility
I was privileged to be a part of the premier audience for a wonderful documentary called what’s your point, honey? in the East Village tonight. It brought me back to my sports writing days, as that was when I was at the height of feminist awareness and was quite strident about it.
I loved the film because it was about getting young women involved in politics, the idea being that by increasing sheer numbers of females in the political arena there will be more viable female candidates in leadership and eventually the White House. The film was done with the support of the White House Project (a non-profit that aims to advance women’s leadership) and CosmoGIRL! magazine. It was particularly effective because several generations were represented and interviews with Gloria Steinem and Marie Wilson were interspersed.
I will be writing a Game Plan column about it for FOXBusiness.com, complete with interviews. Stay tuned.
Color me integrated
I’m out of hiding.
Yes, it’s true.
For nearly a year I was writing a blog called The Universal Flow. I created it in addition to my already existing blog, Write Thinking, because I wanted a more spiritual outlet. Here’s the intro from that blog: I believe there are decisions we make that are in accordance with The Universal Flow, that if we pay attention we will notice that, in fact, the Universe is conspiring to help us live our best life. I also believe that we have the ability to manifest what happens in our lives. This blog is an expression of that way of being, with all its exhilaration and messiness.
My original intent in keeping these blogs separate was strictly business. From a marketing standpoint, I wasn’t sure if I wanted potential life coaching clients to be turned off by what some people call “woo woo” stuff. That was also why much of my writing was not on my former website.
But now, I’m out. Color me exposed.
My new thinking is this — anyone who doesn’t hire me because they read my essay on leaving Catholicism or who thinks my spirituality is ‘out there’ probably isn’t the right client for me. Simple really. I think it’s better to equip people with lots of information so they can get a feel for who I am and how I operate in the world.
So if you want to read only the “woo woo” stuff, click on the The Universal Flow in the category area. Or if Write Thinking is your pleasure, that’s there, too. Otherwise, enjoy this one blog integrating the writer, columnist and life coach in me.
I’m out, baby.
Mind your manners
Today’s Game Plan column features Gretchen Neels, a consultant who specializes in “soft skills” — or etiquette — in the workplace. Loved her take, particularly on the “entitled” generation we call Millennials. Check it out:
Smoothing the Lines of Communication
Beautiful arrangement
Did a bit of feng shui magic in my home today. The money, or wealth, corner is the far left one. Someone pointed this out to me and I realized something significant — mine is filled with items from my past like my antique Nancy Drew books and a few other childhood mementos. I definitely don’t want my relationship with money to derive from the past.
So, now that corner is filled with treasured spirituality and money books, a bold fish print, a pair of red vases, some purple candles and a ceramic sculpture of a mermaid reading a book. I just learned that fish and the colors green, red and purple are terrific things to incorporate into this corner, so now they’re all there.
Looks great. Feels great.
Law & (above all) Order
Sometimes, after successive days of doing fun things, there is nothing like using the third day of a three-day holiday weekend to just be. And sometimes, the best way to cap off that kind of day is by watching Sam Waterston and Jesse Martin solve big crimes inside an hour.
Optimum TV Zen.
Fragile China
I keep thinking about the stories from the disaster in China that I heard from the woman who runs the local laundromat. I was in there washing my clothes yesterday and as she relayed story after story, showed me pictures in the Chinese newspaper she was reading, I marveled at the “ordinary” heroes that brought tears to her eyes.
Particularly striking was a 9-year-old boy who saved two classmates and even had them singing to relieve their fear. One after another, one more poignant than the next.
Amazing how we respond to joy and crisis at a gut level. It says so much about us.
Girl in a twirl
Social butterfly. That’s me.
Spent the day strolling the East Village, a street fair, the West Village and grabbing a bite at a diner in between with my cool friend, Erin, who was visiting from California. What a fun afternoon.
Then it was off to, well, Loehmann’s to “kill” some time before heading to a BBQ in Chelsea to connect with some former co-workers. And then back to Hoboken to quell the craving for a cold glass of Reisling with Robin, fresh from her trip to Vegas and ready to take a break from unpacking.
Flittering and twirling today.
