If you are on Twitter and hopefully you are, this post is for you. I have had clients connect with me and present questions about how they should be using Twitter. My first question is, “Why are you using Twitter?” The answer is usually along the lines of wanting to gain numbers so they will…
People who are uninformed about coaching often share their inaccurate and uneducated opinions with anyone who will listen. These people are exactly what the phrase, the blind leading the blind describes. These self proclaimed experts damage the perception of what quality coaching is and what it does. Coaching Fallacies Coaching and therapy are the same….
A self-fulfilling prophesy is basically a perception of people, events or circumstances that may actually cause the person with that perception to behave in a way that causes the perception to become fact. A self-fulfilling prophesy is a cause and effect situation. The most important thing to remember is that the statement that you make…
The way you live, the people you work with and the people you socialize with can generally be found within your comfort zone. If there is a part of your life that you find dissatisfying, you must be willing to change your comfort zone. Why? The answer is an easy one if you think about…
It goes without saying that you do what you do to survive and maybe even thrive financially but that is not the answer to the question that I am asking. The question If you could do any job and make any income, what would you want to do? For me, the answer is what I…
Do you absolutely love what you do? Maybe the answer lies with how you feel about your coaching and how much of a difference you are making. As coaches, we are the ones who must pump up our clients. We are the ones who must energize them. Our clients look to us for guidance and…
Understanding the foundation of what motivates a person is the key for a successful approach to coaching. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Basically, there are negative and positive origins for peoples’ motivation. The negative source is rooted…
You just found a lamp that looks a lot like the kind of lamp that was in the movies. The lamp is the exact shape as the ones you remember being rubbed, only to have a genie appear. Laughing to yourself and feeling like a kid, you begin to rub the lamp. Suddenly the lamp…
