The Vulnerability of Coaching

Beth (I’ve changed her name) is the CEO for a national non-profit in the health field.  She hasbeen the CEO for seven years and for the past two years her performance reached a plateau.  It’s not that she achieved her … Continue reading

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Re-Loving What You Do

In the month where we celebrate Valentine’s Day, a day to celebrate love in all its forms, I have noticed that many of my clients have at one time or another lost the love they feel for their work. Passion … Continue reading

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Taming Our Addictive Brain

The Washington School of Medicine discovered that we are all genetically prone to being addictive in one way or another. Being addictive, we constantly serve our urge to reward or distract ourselves with food, alcohol, drugs, sex, money, gambling, work, … Continue reading

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How to be Happy at Work

Thanks to the work of psychologists like Martin Seligman and Danny Kahneman, the field of human psychology has begun to look at what makes up happy and healthy verses what makes us unhappy and sick.  Positive Psychology focuses on what’s … Continue reading

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Are You Optimistic, Pessimistic or it Depends?

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity and an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”  Winston Churchill We tend to identify people one way or the other, but really none of us are completely optimistic or pessimistic! It … Continue reading

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