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As Joe Jackson (no, not that one) Sang,
Day 183 (POST UPDATED: NEW YORK CITY AREA ONLY, PLEASE) You can’t get what you want ’til you know what you want . In my experience as a coach, darn few people know exactly what they want and why they want it and how to get it and what they’re prepared to do to make it [...]
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Day 118 I loved the movie Run Lola Run. I saw it so many years ago, but I think about it almost every day for at least one second. The director Tom Tykwer hooked me forever with a little cinematic technique: at various points in the action, a series of quick still shots appear. They show a [...]
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Day 116 This must be what if feels like to be a book author. A colleague spent part of her Saturday reading everything I posted here since the first of January. This is a feeling I have never had before. I wonder if book writers have this sense of awe, that anyone would exchange the [...]
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Day 95 I am not counting it as “work” when I coach strangers on the internet. I joined Aardvark last year and I enjoy the opportunity to answer the random questions that people submit online. This morning, Aardvark sent me a question from a California man who said he was having “no luck” finding a judicial clerkship. I’ve [...]
Full StoryThings Look Different In The Light Of Grey
Day 90 Having made a Major Life Decision this week, I felt emboldened. I immediately went looking for more Major Life Decisions to make. When I told my coach about some of the MLDs under consideration, she slowed me down like a runaway horse. “Whoa, whoa, whooooooaaaaa,” she said. “Let’s talk about scale. It’s not [...]
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Day 61 Some of you think you’ve caught me red-handed – working. I’ve had a number of messages (thanks for your sarcasm, your curiosity, your concern) referring to evidence that I’m doing things that look like work. (Pause) (Reflect) (Accept intervention message) Maybe you’re right. I am having more temptation than I expected to dip [...]
Full StoryAnd This Is Why She Gets The Big Bucks
Day 34 During this sabbatical year, I’m making very few appointments, but I still meet with my coach. Today the coach helped me reframe a major life situation in a way that took it from “energy drain” to “energy source.” It’s hard to put a price on a professional service that gets one from “troubled” to “happy,” but [...]
Full StoryWhy Your Company Should Pay You To Go Away
Day 21 ”Sabbatical is the new black,” I said earlier this year, and I’ve been told that a sabbatical is also the new “status symbol.” More importantly, sabbaticals are a new way to reinvigorate employees, and their workplaces are the eventual beneficiaries. Compass Point provides some proof in a new study of nonprofit leaders who [...]
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Day 14 Yes, I know, it’s almost the end of Day 14. I’m not responding to artificial deadlines this year. When TED Community Director Tom Rielly invited The Harnisch Foundation to be a founding sponsor of the TED Fellows program, we signed on immediately. The TED Fellows are some of the most extraordinary people in the world. [...]
Full StoryWhy Reinvent The Wheel (When You Can Reinvent Yourself Instead)?
Day 9 Are you up for a fresh start? I’m usually working on a continuum, hoping to improve, progress, move forward. As a coach, I have spent years helping clients identify and take the next steps to achieve their goals. Most people are trying to build on what they have, not tear it all down and start [...]
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