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Framing the Scenes
Framing the scenes of your life comes naturally. Furthermore, each one of us does it daily. Consciously recognizing one's frames not only supports self-awareness, it enhances a better understanding of the world. Building a successful career requires the skill of both...
Process As Teacher
Follow my posts to see how I use them as teacher. Then, develop your own systematic process to continually learn and sharpen your skills and knowledge. The Kickass Koach Podcast turned four years old this week. In other words, I'm starting my fifth season with the...
Self-Deception: the Lazy Way
Self-deception is the lazy way. However, deception, more broadly has proven to be essential to evolution. Just the same self-deception is living in an alternate reality of one's own making. It is a lie. Refuse to waste energy on self- deception. It eats up potential...
Weakness: Strength Made Perfect
Weakness as strength made perfect probably sounds counter-intuitive. Read on to understand my point, reflect on it and please leave a comment. It is important to focus first on, and always circle back to, strengths. Not to ignore weaknesses but rather to help...
Voice in the Active and Passive
Communicate clearly, realizing your patterns reveal more than you intend. An ability to shift intentionally & effectively from the active to passive voice puts you one step closer to communicating from & with self awareness. I ranted in this week's podcast...
Feeling Inadequate = Learned Helplessness
Feeling inadequate? Even some of the time? Turns out the blame game that many play, keeps them small and limits their agency. They feel like they're not enough. Many may even be stuck within what we often call an inferiority complex. Choosing instead to build a deep...
Loving Through Boundaries
Loving boundaries are not for pushing people away. They articulate what you need in order to cultivate respect and love on a path to creating happy, healthy relationships and cultures. This week in the podcast I share a client's story of realizing in his effort to...
Joy Lifts All Boats From the Inside-Out
Joy is completely internal and struggling to be heard in the very loud world of social media. A reality that's almost exclusively externally focused. In this week's podcast, dropped Monday, I reflect on how, by attaching our self worth to winning or an external...
Intensity: Take a Breath to Move a Mountain
Why don't we all just take a moment to notice when and what increases or diminishes our intensity? This is the way to learn what to inject or reject to help us land perfectly in the middle of our sweet spot. In this week's podcast, my favourite episode in a long...
Intuition: An Educated Guess
Intuition is a doubled edged sword. When failing to heed it, people act overly cautious and when heeding it too readily, without careful consideration of its source, they may make very poor choices in life. Gurdjieff's model, the Enneagram, suggests people tend to...