When Things Don’t Go As Planned

We all are plagued by life’s interruptions, challenges, detours, and irritants. Sometimes things just don’t go how we plan. It is in those instances that EQ shows up in a big way, and we really can shine. People who need to develop their EQ (emotional intelligence)...

Uniquely Serving

Yesterday in Los Cabos a friend and I visited two cantinas serving the Los Cabos and tourist populations. One, in Cabo San Lucas, attracted passersby with a friendly, colorful, large painted sign, and welcomed patrons with boisterous pop music and greeters on the...

Consistent as the Ocean

The past few days I’ve enjoyed just sitting and watching ocean waves rise, crash against the beach and recede. Over, and over, and over again. What it’s taught me is how consistent actions create expectations that these actions will be repeated. Yet, the variety in...

Support Your Work with Great Tools

Are you reinventing the wheel every day? What tools do you use to streamline your work, lower your admin/red tape time, and impact your clients positively? Last Friday I facilitated a meeting of ICF South Sound coaches about Technology for Coaching. We looked at...

Stop Looking Perfect

Every day I encounter people who present the perfect image. Their Instagram posts are shiny, their Facebook LIVE videos are flawless (even without makeup), their LinkedIn profiles and websites are stellar, their calendars are booked out weeks and months in advance...