Declare It
Because of the work I do around emotional intelligence I often find there’s a misconception by others that I have all my shit together. That I am immune to emotional hijacking. And that just isn’t true. During a recent coaching conversation around managing emotions, I shared this personal example: It was a rainy Sunday morning […]
I was coaching a mechanical engineer, our first two sessions were awful. Not because of him. He wanted coaching. They were awful because I thought I needed to be a mechanical engineer, I was trying to be smart in a subject I knew absolutely nothing about. After the second laboured session, I left his office […]
I REALLY DO! There’s the old adage that you shouldn’t care what other people think of you. I say poppycock! I think this advice limits our growth, and does more damage then good. Have you ever noticed when this “advice” is given to you? It’s only when someone says something to you that you disagree […]
At a time when my client needed empathy and support, I choose to focus on BEING RIGHT, thus making him wrong. Ultimately I backed him into a corner leaving him only one option to regain his dignity: to fire me. Upon reflection: When I focus on BEING RIGHT, my attention is solely on external factors, […]