Archive for the 'Coaching' Category
Jul
3
How to find your passion
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Coaching is often about change, a new career, better balance in life or adding something new to “spice up” life. And in those contexts we often talk about finding ones passion and following ones passion.
Mike over at ZenDonut has a really interesting post about 3 Steps To Develop Your Passion … Not Just “Find” It.
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Published on July 3, 2008
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Jun
23
In the book Do Less, Achieve More is mentioned that Harvard and INSEAD see meditation and intuition as the business tools of the future. A search using Google showed just one source apart from quotes from the book. In a newsletter from International Coach Federation - New York City Chapter it says as introduction to [...]
Jun
16
Why do we resist it?
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Jonathan Mead has a very interesting post over at PickTheBrain about Why Do We Avoid Doing What We Love?.
If we know what makes us feel alive, why do we resist it? Why do we avoid doing what we love to do?
There are some important lessons in here:
Failure is fundamental to the creative process. If you [...]
Published on June 16, 2008
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May
4
Leave the door open
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At Pick The Brain is a post about The Other Side of Productivity: Coincidences, Synchronicity, and Serendipity. The post lists “Three Methods for Attracting Coincidences and Serendipity”.
Believing in the phenomenon of coincidences and serendipity does not mean that you shun work and sit cross-legged waiting for the universe to deliver your dreams to your doorstep. [...]
May
3
Key Coaching
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I have been absent for a while due to another project of mine. For my coaching business I had two PHP-based websites, one in English and one in Swedish. Changing layout was a probleme even though I used CSS. I wanted the ease of WordPress and when I decided to merge my two coaching sites [...]
Mar
22
If there were ten of you?
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Skellie asks two interesting questions over at Anywired, If There Were Ten of Me…
What would you do if there were ten of you? (Putting aside the social and existential awkwardness that might cause, of course.)
Once you’ve answered that question, something to think about:
What will you do because there is only one of you?
This is a [...]
Mar
21
A guest post at Zen Habits led me to Eugene Yiga of Varsity Blah. I suggest that you go and get a copy of his free eBook Work in Progress. Actually it is two books in one, Work in Progress and Before I forget. The second part is the holistic thinking I share. It is [...]
Mar
6
How do you change your thinking?
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I got this quote a while back:
The greatest discovery of my lifetime was that a person can change the circumstances of his life by changing his thoughts.
William James
Change is an important issue, both on a personal level and for society and our world. It brings another quote to my mind: “Change comes from within.”
Another quote, [...]
Feb
28
This question turned up in my Daily Forwards Step. There was also this quote:
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin
What do YOU need to change, to keep up with change?
Feb
25
This question turned up in my Daily Forwards Step. There was also this quote:
When you’re in your 90’s and looking back, it’s not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you’ve won. It’s really ‘What did you stand for? Did you make a positive difference for people?’.
Elizabeth Dole
What do YOU [...]
