Tag Archives: Coaching
Busted
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 my toe into…OK, I’ll say it, [...]
And 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 that’s what a [...]
The Higher You Go The Rarer The Air
Day 23
I’m happiest at sea level; more specifically, I’m happiest in the sea.
Here I am in Deer Valley, Utah , at 8200 feet above happy. My body responds by displaying almost every symptom of moderate altitude sickness. My head is pounding. I’m short of breath. I’m nauseated. It usually takes me a few days to acclimatize.
I think [...]
Why 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 took three months [...]
Slower
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. As a [...]
There Is No Try – Do Or Do Not
Work ethic- it was pounded into me from earliest childhood.
Kids had chores, and were expected to exercise some creativity, ingenuity, and enterprise to earn their own money. I can’t remember when I wasn’t busy. I usually had more than one job – even in high school, I was working at a radio station and a [...]
Is Your Earth Flat?
Years ago, when I was struggling to come up with a succinct way of describing all the different work I do, I asked my friend Marielen: “What do you say when people ask you what you do?” She said, “I tell them ‘I am enjoying my life.’”
I was trapped in the notion that what I [...]
The Emperor’s New Coach Training
I apologize in advance to every coach who will be offended by this post. I know some of you will feel personally attacked, but if your coach training has taught you anything, you should know that it’s not personal.
The following letter has been edited and I’ve removed the names of specific coach training programs as [...]
