visioning

I love assessments and personality tests, don’t you?  As a lifelong seeker of personal growth and knowledge, I have taken many of these to great benefit.  As a coach, I have found them to be extremely useful in helping my clients better understand themselves and enhancing our mutual understanding of who they are and what […]

Guidance is always right. Even when, often we can’t see the reason why. Today I am going to talk about how guidance has worked for me personally and help you connect to your own guidance. I was guided to this topic on my birthday, which I celebrated a couple of weeks ago. I had decided

Running a business can be fun and … if you try to do it all alone … exhausting.  When I first opened my coaching business, and I had just a handful of clients paying me very little, I realized that I was going to need help! This was a bit of a paradox in that

When I first trained as a professional coach, I knew I had many of the needed skills, passion and a lot of personal growth training which would be helpful.  What was a surprise to me was just how much training I actually needed in order to be a good coach.  This is a bit of

When I first looked at the topic of belonging in a learning experience I focused on adult learning.  But when I sat down to write, I was flooded with memories of all the different types of learning I have experienced.  I was struck by a memory of kindergarten, where I felt a sense of belonging

So many coaches are enthusiastic about the art and craft of coaching. The amazing experience of helping another human live their best life.  It is exciting to think about coaching as a career and embark on that adventure.  But often, what I find missing for many coaches is to include in this new career all

As I begin this article, I feel a big gulp. This is a pretty big topic!  I want to start by saying I am going to offer not just one way to create a successful coaching career but to lay out instead the general flow of this particular career from my viewpoint. The first step

The origin story of the Soulsearch Process began in my childhood.  I write the whole story in my book The Soul Search, but let’s just say it came from a frustration I had with the negativity I noticed everywhere I went. It seemed that people just didn’t appreciate what they had, and even worse in

I recently wrote a blog for the Co-Active Training Institute that reminded me of the agony I felt when my job had become untenable. I thought I would share some of what I wrote about how to make wise choices to move forward in your coaching career.  “My job is soul-sucking! At times I feel

I am sitting on the beach contemplating my life. That one sentence lets me know I am living my dream life. The beach … sitting … contemplating… are all high values of mine. I believe in making dreams come true. That sounds trite, I realize, yet it is one of the fundamental truths that has