Monthly Archives: June 2011

2 Ways to Follow Your Reading Bliss

One of the things people do to identify their comfort zones is through reading. We can find things that speaks to us in ways that we didn’t know existed, expand on an already formed idea or find material to support … Continue reading

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Sometimes, It’s Time to Scream

It seems that we all carry baggage from our childhood, some little carryalls, some huge trunks, some falling in between. Much of what we do as coaches involves unpacking those bags, examining the contents and discarding that which is no … Continue reading

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Live and Let Live. Seriously.

I can be terribly naïve. It seemed to me that someone who spent their life vying for the right to live the way they were meant to live would, at the very least, applaud someone else’s choice to “color outside … Continue reading

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Natalie’s Question of the Week 6-13-11

Are you more frequently frustrated with people or more frequently delighted by people? To what do you attribute this?

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Families – By Birth, By Choice

I’ve just returned from the 70th birthday party of my godson’s grandmother. How’s that for a complicated construction? As the birthday girl stood surrounded by blood relatives and family-by-choice, she told us that we were all her family – her … Continue reading

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Susan’s Question of the Week 6-11-11

Today has been a gloomy Saturday, but much cooler than the past week – a perfect day for clearing up loose ends or curling up with a good book. I did a little of each. Something I read today got … Continue reading

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More On The Art Of Questioning

A few weeks ago I shared with my husband something that is going on in a company in which I am contracted for coaching.  The changes proposed have the potential to shift the core values of the company. My husband … Continue reading

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Taking Life as it Comes

Everything that is today could not be if it were not for that which was before. Abraham To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 How often are we impatient? How often … Continue reading

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Natalie’s Question of the Week, 6-6-11

Are you able to ask for help? What belief do you hold about life that either allows or disallows this to happen?

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Thoughts or Feelings? Chicken or Egg?

The first day of my first class at Teachers College, the professor wrote something like this on the board: Race Results: Chicken – time: 2:10 Egg – time: 1:40 Which came first? Which came first? Just as there’s no clear … Continue reading

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