Imitation Love (#662)

by | May 25, 2009

Nina and I just got back from a weekend away celebrating our 19th wedding anniversary and 21st year together, and for a bit of light reading I brought a long a copy of Greg Baer’s wonderful book Real Love in Marriage.

The Goldilocks Principle (#661)

by | May 18, 2009

A client complained to me recently that he needed to become more disciplined, as he was failing to hit his targets in several key areas of his business. Years ago when I was first starting out as a coach I might have taken his complaint seriously and worked with him on becoming “a more disciplined person”, even taking the time to explore his patterns of self-sabotage and encouraging him to ‘just try harder’ and ‘focus more’ on what he really wanted.

The Supercoaches, Part Four (#660)

by | May 11, 2009

To coincide with the publication of Supercoach, I’ve decided to feature the work of some of the coaches I talk about in the book. In each case, I’ll share what I consider to be some of the most transformative elements of their work. I will also do my best to make clear what is their material and what is my interpretation and experience of that material. Any misrepresentation is mine and mine alone…

The Power of Make Believe (#659)

by | May 4, 2009

What do you believe right now? Take a few moments to finish these ‘sentence starters’ for yourself. You can do this in your head, but I strongly encourage you to jot down your answers somewhere you can find them after you’ve finished the book. That’s because they are likely to have changed so radically by the time we’ve finished our time together you won’t remember them later: