Essays
Why Personal Honesty In Leadership Is So Critical To Your Success
You may think it obvious that personal honesty in leadership is essential. How effective is a leader going to be who doesn’t give you back the right change? Or who lies, isn’t fair, or is deceitful? But this understanding of “honesty” is a very thin understanding of...
A Conversation With Marc Mawhinney on the NaturalBornCoaches.com Podcast
A conversation with Marc Mawhinny. Marc is a lifelong entrepreneur who helps coaches get more clients (without paid advertising)! He achieves this with his coaching programs: the popular Natural Born Coaches podcast, his Facebook group The Coaching Jungle, and his...
Ontological Coaching: Choosing Your Way Of Being
There are many different coaching methodologies. I practice Ontological Coaching. So what is it? Say you hike into the woods for a picnic with a really exciting date or with your husband or wife on an important anniversary. On a stream bank, you spread the cloth,...
Are You Stuck In Your Life? Four Reasons Why You Can’t Move Forward.
Are you stuck in your life? Do you want your life to be different than it is but don’t know how to make that happen? Instead, you stay right where you are, stewing in your own juices. You may try to claw your way out of your stuckness by reading self-help books,...
What Happens In A Coaching Session?
What happens in a coaching session varies, of course, but the general goal of coaching is to move you from where you are to where you want to be. Where you want to be could be anywhere: married or on your own; a leader in your community or an artist content in your...
Tired Of Feeling Trapped In Your Life? These Five Strategies Will Help 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 keeping you boxed-in, can be stressful, anxiety-ridden, and depressing....
What Is Personal Leadership To You?
I coach for personal leadership. I work with people who want to be leaders in their own lives. Leaders are those who know where they are going and are on a path that will take them there. Where they are going inspires them, it gets them out of bed in the morning, it...
What Is Coaching?
All world-class athletes—no matter the sport—have one thing in common: they have a coach. If you want to excel, if you want to be world-class, if you want to achieve more than you think you are capable of—you need a coach. And, if you are not getting what you want in...
Getting On Your New Life Path: Increase Your Behavioral Repertoire
In 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. The third obstacle is not having the necessary behaviors. We...
Changing Your Life Path: How To Beat The Fear
In 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 post, we'll look at how you can beat the...
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