What Are You Waiting For?
We are all going to die. I don’t mean to be a downer, just the opposite: I am reminding you of your mortality to wake you up to the gift that is your life and urge you to make the most of it. Wallace Stevens said, “Death is the mother of beauty.” Life is precious in part because it is finite. And yet how often do we postpone doing something that will improve our lives, as if we had infinite time? We put off getting in shape or job-hunting or whatever and continue to tolerate feeling crummy or being unfulfilled. We live in response mode rather than generative mode. We turn...
Read MoreQuantum Leap or Baby Step?
A Facebook buddy has the following quotation on his home page: “Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.” I am struck both by its truth and by the way in which it is not true. The truth of it is commonplace: talk is cheap, actions speak louder than words, wishing don’t make it so, etc. But I am also aware of the way it is not true, or rather, the way in which we exaggerate the size of the leap and make it too hard in order to excuse our inaction. Psychologically, doing can be an enormous leap. But in the words of a cd that my kids currently demand as soon as we get into the...
Read MoreNetworking? Moi?
Okay, I admit it. I am networking …. It started out as something I thought I ought to do to promote my coaching practice, but I now, I’m actually having fun. I am delighted by making friends on Facebook and connections on LinkedIn. Who knew? I guess this is yet another lesson for me as build my coaching practice: if you put yourself out there, you get back even more. And while I certainly hope that my networking yields some referrals and clients (as it already has), I am simply enjoying myself. How cool is that? I don’t have to do any cheesy marketing spiel – I am...
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