Are Your Ready for 2018?

Happy New Year! I know it’s a little late. I thought I’d let the gyms clear out and some sort of normal routine set back in before I disrupted it again. As a small business owner, January has always been a time to get last year’s information together and ready for tax...

End of Year Post (2017)

End of year post 2017 is coming to a close and, like always, I find myself once again reflecting on the past year.  In many ways this was the best year ever for me personally and professionally.  What makes that so?  Many things, though not the absence of grief. ...
Staying on Track: It’s Harder than You Think

Staying on Track: It’s Harder than You Think

It’s harder than it sounds, “plan your work, work your plan.” Early this week, I was looking over my garden and saw that it was time to prune, weed, and clean up storm debris. Putting on gloves, armed with natural bug spray and wearing long pants, I grabbed my garden...

Don’t You Wish Life Came with a Reset Button?

We can’t undo the past, it’s true. What we can do is make a course correction and hope that it’s enough to get us to a place we want. By life’s reset button, I mean the ability to start over when you make a mistake.  Backtrack in a relationship when misunderstandings...

How to Encourage Learning

Learning is a process involving nurturing, inspiring, and self-discovering. Learning is a voluntary act. We all choose what we learn, even when life and experience provide learning, not everyone takes it in. For example, as a corporate trainer and coach, I know what I...

Measuring Success

I often get asked how results from coaching get measured.  How does one know that the coaching worked? What is success? What does success look like?  How is it measured? The answer is very subjective.  In individual coaching It depends on the individual and what he or...