What life coaching isn’t

Last week I wrote a column debating the idea of pursuing your passion vs. pursuing your effort (both can pay off swimmingly) and I got some interesting feedback. Among the discussion points I noticed that a lot of people still have the impression life coaches are just...

Beginning with the end

Admittedly a little taken aback when author Joyce Carol Oates read the last chapter of her new novel, Mudwoman, at a recent reading by the Center for Fiction, it got me thinking (doesn’t everything?). Richard Ford had just read the first chapter of Canada, his...

A dose of ahhhhhhhhhh

What an inspiring way to start my day. Check out my friend Erin’s blog post on doing the Mud Run at Camp Pendleton. Just fabulous. Her blog, The Half Full Glass, is always fresh and uplifting. Since we live on opposite coasts, each time I read it is like a...

The joy of reward

I am feeling grateful today for realizations hitting in waves. The kind that come with emotional maturity and awareness of self. The sort that are around issues I have worked on so diligently over the years. I love those moments of “oh yeah, it’s paying...

Alternative to passion?

A big part of being in the life coaching profession is dealing with comments about what a joke it is. I suppose we’re still educating folks on that and certainly there are some in our profession — as in all lines of work — who give all of us a bad...