Managing our minds and taking ownership of our lives requires intentional self coaching on a regular basis. But what does this actually look like? There are lots of ways people do this, but I’ve found that cleaning up our mind is like cleaning a cluttered...
How to 10X Your Experience & Results While coaching a woman about her body image when she told me something I hear often. It sounded reasonable enough. “I’ll love my body when I lose some weight.” I helped her see that the reverse is...
Success Defined Every morning, my husband wakes me by bringing us coffee in bed. (Sorry, he’s taken.) We typically spend an hour sipping while we each read our own devotions , poking each other whenever we come across something to discuss. This morning, he got...
Discipline (as Taught by Pippi) A complaint I often hear from clients is that they “just aren’t getting things done”. They set goals for themselves, and make plans to change their habits or begin new ones, but a time passes and they “just...
Get Comfortable with Discomfort When I greet my coaching friends and ask how they’ve been, I often get a response I only get from them: “Great! Really uncomfortable.” Then we laugh and go on to talk about all the risks we’ve been taking in our...
Forfeiting the Game Those who know me, know I’m not a sports fan. I’ll spare you all the details, but this stems from the days of being picked last when my fourth grade gym teacher regularly armed two ultra-athletes (at the mighty age of nine) with the...