Asking For Help

How often have you wanted to ask someone for help and yet, didn’t?  How many times have your family, friends and co-workers help you make you the person you are today? 
Why do we feel so frail when we need help?  Everyone of us needs help in myriad ways throughout any given day or week. At work, [...]

What Can You Do Without?

I know all of you have seen either a dog or a cat with only three legs.  They learn to cope without the fourth and do so with relish. They don’t pine – or at least not for long – about losing the leg, they just learn to live without it and move on – [...]

What Are You Worth?

Friends, acquaintances and strangers younger than you are making more money than you;  the same with others your age or older.  Why?  Why too, do some people choose to work for a cause knowing that they’ll get half the money they’re worth?  What are you worth and to whom?  Do you know? Are you making the [...]

Celebration

Happy Halloween! BOO!  For those of you overseas who do not celebrate Halloween, Happy Saturday!
What happens when you don’t feel like celebrating other’s celebrations?  What happens when you play the “bah humbug” of ghouls, goblins and ghosts?  I so want to get in the “spirit,” but it just doesn’t come to me.  Does this mean [...]

You Never Know!

Marianne was a client for almost a year; we only met face-to-face twice.  Coaching is an intimate working relationship; you learn about the real person, not just the face who shows up.  It’s also a weekly commitment for both the client and coach.  Marianne and I liked to spend an hour or so on Sunday afternoons.
I [...]

Who You Gonna Call?

As much as I dislike cliches, this one:, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know,” cemented its truth on my brain this morning.  Isn’t it wonderful to have a cadre of experts who are there for you at any time?  Yes, any time.  
When our trees die we call the tree specialists, when our disposal [...]

Lost

My computer – that appendage that keeps on keeping on – has to get a face lift and boob job and she will be “under the knife” for four-five hours. I’m lost as to how to plan my day without my computer. Now, that’s sad.  Yet, I do know that I’m at the bottom of the [...]

Keep Your Word

When you tell someone you’ll have the report ready by Thursday, have it ready by Thursday, not Friday.  No excuses.  When you promise someone you’ll call them on the 12 and here it is the 13 or 14, you haven’t kept your word.  When you commit to volunteer from 10a.m.-2p.m., be there early and stay [...]

What’s Behind You?

When it snows I reluctantly get to scrape and brush the snow and ice off my car.  It takes a minimal amount of time in the big picture, and a certain amount of energy.  It’s the price I pay for parking my chariot outside; no garage!   Now, when I scrape andbrush I obviously want all [...]

Whom To Believe

I don’t know about you, but I receive at least six “self help” e-mails a day.  Each suggests an article or book to read, a mantra to repeat, a persuasion technique to use, another link to click for prosperity, or a YouTube video to watch.  Wow, just reading them and their suggestions takes half of my morning; [...]