Coaching Articles
5 Things Successful Small Business Owners Have in Common
It’s fairly easy to start a business. If you have a decent idea and can fill a need in the market, most people are quite successful at launching a business. It’s quite exciting in the beginning as your vision turns into reality and your business starts to operate. You...
What I Learned from 29 Days on My Bike
The 29 Day Challenge On January 31 I signed up for a 29 day mountain bike challenge, #trailsforallchallenge, hosted by the NSMBA, our local North Shore Mountain Bike Association. The challenge was to bike 29 minutes every day for 29 days for the month of February in...
How To Use a Growth Mindset to Overcome Adversity
When I say the word adversity, what comes to mind? For some, it may be facing a serious illness for themselves or a loved one, loss of a job, end of a relationship, struggle with mental health, sustaining a serious injury as an athlete just to name a few. For others,...
5 Ways to Make Embracing Discomfort Easier
The number one thing that gets in the way of learning and growth is our willingness or ability to be uncomfortable. You've probably heard of all these sayings: Embrace the Discomfort Lean in to the discomfort Get our of your comfort zone Comfort zones are most often...
3 Strategies to Manage Stress More Effectively
If there’s one thing we all share in common, it’s experiencing stress in our lives. However, regardless of where you find yourself and what stress you’re navigating right now, there are 3 strategies that you can…
Learning To Let Go of Control
“If only I could control what happens then everything would be ok.” Imagine if you could control how people respond to you and treat you and how things operate around you? Imagine if you could have things exactly the way you want them? Imagine if you didn’t have to...
The Work of Authenticity
How many times have you said to someone or you’ve heard it said to you, ‘just be yourself’? Or, ‘just be you, everyone else is taken’.
It turns out that being yourself is harder than all those quotes say…
Two Kinds of Burnout & What To Do About It
You might be surprised to know that many of my coaching conversations involve the question 'how are you going to make time to look after yourself?' The topic of burnout is all around us. Almost everywhere you turn there's articles, social media posts and books around...
3-Phase Approach to Managing Transitions
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another."Anatole France Let's talk about transitions. What are transitions and why is it important to...