How I Set My Year Up For Ease and Build a Plan I Can Stick To Would you believe me if I said I just wing it every year in my business? Go with the flow and see what happens? No! Of course not! It would be completely ridiculous to leave my livelihood up to…
The Power of Leading by Example The juiciest conversations always happen after dark, once the kids are asleep, in hushed but passionate voices. In this case there was limited alcohol but an abundance of gourmet chocolate, in the safe company of dear friends. The topic: What will we tell our kids when they’re older and…
First, let’s get some things out of the way. 1. You can’t actually manage time, you can only manage your attention 2. No matter how efficient you are, you’ll never be able to magically fit too many things into one day The theme in my coaching calls this month seems to be time blocking and…
I was exhausted. My daily nap wasn’t helping, nor was eating healthy and taking care of myself. When I did any exercise, I would fall asleep on the floor when I was done. This is what burnout feels like, I finally realized. In addition to amazing support from my Naturopathic Doctor, I needed to make…
My current framework for working with clients, and why I resisted having one for so long Why is this article so hard to write? Every time I’ve tried over the past few months I’ve given up and written something else instead. The framework is easy, and it’s how I work with clients every day, so…
Today I just have a full-blown rant for you. This usually isn’t my style because I like to give you actionable things to work with, but we need to talk about this. There’s a phrase coaches use when a client isn’t getting results, and that is “they’re just not coachable”. Other things a coach might…
Hand up if you’ve spent a ton of non-refundable money on a service, only to find a pit in your stomach because you really didn’t align with the practitioner… Other hand up if you’ve been on a “discovery call” with a coach or practitioner only to be sold to by them the whole time… Well,…
Unfortunately, feeling trapped, stuck, desperate, scared, or hopeless, among other things, is not uncommon to the entrepreneur experience. We fluctuate from feelings of high to low and back up in a matter or minutes sometimes, or the feelings can extend over weeks and months. Most people can’t withstand the instability and throw in the towel.…
“I said no to something! I was invited to dinner with some friends, but I said no because it was our last night on holiday and I wanted to try a new restaurant instead.” This report came from a proud client who, historically, was terrified of offending people, so she would bend over backwards to…
I remember sitting at my desk at BlackBerry when my co-worker Andrew excitedly returned to work with a big smile on his face. He had been on a Six Sigma training course, and it was totally blowing his mind. I was 22, and a complete sponge for everything in the corporate world, so I eagerly…