Essays
Getting On Your New Life Path: Increase Your Behavioral Repertoire
Getting On Your New Life Path: Increase Your Behavioral RepertoireIn the introduction to this series about getting on a new life path, I identified four obstacles that often stop us cold. The first of these is getting into gear, and the second is beating your fear....
Coach Or Therapist? You May Be Stuck But You’re Not Broken
Leaders Develop their PeopleCoach or Therapist? When you’re stuck; when you can’t break out of your rut, you might think that there is something wrong with you, something a therapist might have to tackle. But… Say I dropped you into the cockpit of a 747 sitting on the...
Interview by Noomii.com
Interview by Noomii.com Noomii.com is a Canadian website that helps match clients with coaches. I have been a member for more than a decade--it remains the best site to find a high-quality coach. In the interview, I explain the power of ontological coaching--and the...
Life Path, Time To Change? Two Ways To Get Into Gear
Life Path, Time To Change? Two Ways To Get Into GearIn my introduction to this series on changing your life path, I identified four obstacles that often stop us cold. The first of these is getting into gear. We can spend a lifetime fantasizing about a more challenging...
Changing Your Life Path: How To Beat The Fear
Changing Your Life Path: How To Beat The FearIn my introduction to this series on changing your life path, I identified four obstacles that often stop us cold. The first of these is getting into gear. The second is fear—raw, paralyzing, debilitating fear. In this...
Tired Of Feeling Trapped In Your Life? These Five Strategies Will Set You Free
Tired Of Feeling Trapped In Your Life? These Five Strategies Will Set You Free Feeling trapped isn’t fun. Feeling like you can’t bust out of a boring or unfulfilling job, or out of a dead relationship, or out circumstances—financial, familial, existential—that are...
Changing Your Life Path Is Tough: Four Reasons Why We Stay Stuck
You’ve tried everything to change your life path, and nothing works. Four reasons why we stay stuck.The life path you are on isn’t the one you want to be walking down. It’s boring, unfulfilling, high-stress, loveless, sexless, friendless—it’s too much of one thing and...
How To Level Up Your Life And Stop Playing Small
How To Level Up Your Life And Stop Playing SmallTo level up your life means to quit playing small and to start playing big. What is playing small? It’s not asking for a raise; it’s putting up with a job you don’t like, it’s suffering a dead relationship, it’s not...
Why Choosing a Life Purpose is Important If You Want To Be Truly Happy
Why Choosing a Life Purpose is Important If You Want To Be Truly HappyBeing able to choose your life’s purpose is a luxury. Throughout human history, until very recently, only a tiny handful of people had the opportunity to choose want they wanted to do with their...