Live Before You Die

One way to understand coaching is that it brings awareness, intelligence and wisdom to your life. Specifically, it does that to your goals, plans – and depending on the client’s willingness to experiment with new practices – actions. So many people go through life reacting to “what comes up” with whatever awareness, intelligence and wisdom is available…

Never forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others. – Sir John Templeton The earning, and deserving, of all you want comes through service. It’s. Just. That. Simple.

One of the hardest things we could ever do is meet the expectation we hold of others, ourselves. That thought occurred to me this morning as I was driving to Starbucks for my morning coffee today. I was noticing that I was (allowing myself to) get annoyed with the driver in front of me. I…

Failure is success if we learn from it. – Malcolm Forbes Quite simply, you fail when give up or refuse to learn from non-ideal or un-desired outcomes. There is such thing as “failure.” Everything produces a result, it’s up to you to do something with all your outcomes.

Some people have to do things. They “have to go to work.” They “have to  pick their kids up.” They “have to [insert the onerous, terrible task].” There’s two levels of dysfunction here: 1) What about people who don’t have jobs? What about people that would love to have kids? Does anyone think they would say…

If you fail to prepare you are preparing to fail. – John Wooden How prepared are you for today? For tomorrow? For the inevitable challenges of life? For the inevitable opportunities of life? Search your self, your soul, and answer the question truthfully. And then get busy . . .