Coaching Articles

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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…

“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...

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…

 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...

"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...

Read the career change success story of Betty-Anne Johnsons, MBA, ACC, becoming a certified professional coach and realizing her dreams.

Your ‘why’ is as personal as it gets. What do I mean by why? It’s the intersection of your values, the impact you want to make and your strongest skillset…

Choosing our path can sometimes be easy, but most often it’s not. What often clouds our decision making is fear and stories we’ve made up. Sometimes…

Levelling up is not comfortable. In fact, while you’re in it, you can often feel like you’re levelling down. When you’re levelling up in your life, you’re…

If I had let fear stop me, I would never have done what I’ve been able to do and achieved what I have. Fear can be the very thing that holds us back from…

The secret of change is not about fighting the old but rather on building the new. ~Socrates~ Easier said than done Socrates. It takes courage to face…

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most…

Letting go is an essential part of change. Sometimes we’re not aware of how much we hold onto the past or how much it holds onto us. That’s why…

If we want something we’ve never had, we have to do something we’ve never done and, here’s the secret key, and change beliefs we didn’t know…

Our perspective is our world, but it can also limit what we see.We base decisions from our perspective. We choose how we interact with others…