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Show up more often
“I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.” BRIAN TRACY
To Be Alive
Fulfillment is about being fully alive. Fulfillment is the state of fully expressing who we are doing what is right for us. Clients have a sense of that feeling. They describe it as wholeness, satisfaction, a sense of rightness and … Continue reading
Evidence for coaching through looking at a chain of impact
The Bailey Group, which work with organizational transformation in the US, acknowledge that it’s difficult to measure the direct impact of coaching on sales and profits but suggest looking at a chain of impact: “Research shows that the chain of … Continue reading
Live the life you imagined
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.” HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Conflict
Do you run or do you fight? Conflict, or more specifically our ability to be with it and navigate it, comes up again and again in every relationship, in every family, in every team. I’m a runner — my natural … Continue reading
We’ll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass
Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” Trilogy features other worlds where our protagonists have “daemons” — essentially a part of themselves expressed in animal form. Inhabitants of these worlds have long observed the phenomenon that when they die, their daemons simply … Continue reading
Lighten your load
This picture was painted by American fantasy artist, James Christensen who was feeling weighed down by all his responsibilities. Of the picture he said “I discovered that my burdens were really blessings and challenges necessary for my growth.” The value of … Continue reading
Start close in by David Whyte
START CLOSE IN Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take. Start with the ground you know, the pale ground … Continue reading
Saint Gilbert between the wolves
One of the elders told him that when he was a boy his grandfather came to him one day and said he had two wolves fighting inside him. One was gray, the other black. The gray one wanted his grandfather … Continue reading
Purpose
To work with these questions: how can we live in integrity with ourselves and our humanity? how can we trust more in grace, in love, in the intelligence of the cosmos?