Yesterday, on our 7th (…wow, where has the time gone…!) small business podcast, my co-host Marie Segares and I, talked about the destructive lure of comparing yourself to…well, anyone but yourself. When I started this business, in 2008, I wasted a lot of time comparing myself to other entrepreneurs and other coaches, to people who had been…
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This morning, lying in bed reading my Twitter feed, as an 8-week-old rescued kitten* walked back and forth across my face, squeaking, I read this story about Brandi Lee Weaver-Gates. Brandi Lee is the Pennsylvania beauty queen recently arrested for pretending to have cancer, so she could scam her friends and family out of thousands of dollars.…
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“Life hack: Stop spending so much time looking for life hacks.”- Rex Huppke It’s Sunday morning, and if you hate your job, this can be truly be the lowest point of your existence. Tomorrow’s Monday, the start of another week doing something you loathe, another week of your life wasted. Sunday evening, for many people, is truly a…
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They are certain types of clients who hire me to help them become more selfish. There are certain types of clients who, when I start talking about how they’re going to have to become selfish to achieve their goals, become almost orgasmic regarding my use of the word, “selfish.” They move in close, lock their…
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Oh, I know: just that very title might make you take a step back and think,”Um, okay…,” but stay with me for a second here. If you are in the process of changing your life, and you’re lucky enough to be surrounded by friends and family who aren’t threatened by your progress, but instead celebrate…
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I have a coaching client who, after being “wooed” for an extended period by a potential new employer, finally had the necessary come-to-Jesus meeting with the management team, to hash out all the final details. Except that the more she and the new team tried to clear up the so-called “minor” details, the more it…
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“There is…the strange feeling of achieving a very specific measure of success ( as defined by society), and being surprised that it doesn’t feel like you imagined it would/should….I think there needs to be much more discussion on what success means…and it’s different for every one of us.”-Kevin M. A friend left that comment on…
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As a coach, I have many people come to me, desperate to change their lives. Many of those same people are extremely panicked. They have great, or at least interesting ideas, but they also have this panicky sense that their lives are spinning out of control, and that unless they make a decision now, right…
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Just saw this 2014 indie horror film Starry Eyes recently…and I loved it. Alex Essoe as the lead whose multi-faceted transformation is so real, inhabits a woman who is so sympathetic, to anyone who has done the hard work to achieve their dreams, that at one point I found myself musing, “Aww, she’s a smart girl trying her best,…
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“I was never the smartest person in my classrooms and [I] always abstained from participating in class because I had no fresh/worthy opinions. “-R. Um…okay. As a coach, I receive many interesting emails. This quote comes from one of those emails, and yes I already vented spoke with the human who reached out, and we had our…
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