Ten Commandments of Coaching

1. Coach from a place and position of mindfulness.
2. Coaching is not therapy— don’t bite off more than you can chew.
   
3. Manage expectations—get agreement early about the coaching process and the relationship.
   
4. Keep the focus on the client—respect his or her personhood, autonomy, and resources.
   
5. Let the client “fly the plane”— the client is the pilot, and the coach serves as the copilot.
   
6. Ask powerful questions.
   
7. Activate the client’s resources first—only then, judiciously offer your own.
   
8. Give advice very sparingly, if at all.
   
9. Balance the use of narrative with a focus on results.
   
10. Use the power and elegance of language to best effect.
    

Karl Albrecht, 2012
KarlAlbrecht.com 

The world owes you nothing

The world owes you nothing. Better yet - the world owes us nothing. We, the human species, are simply one of thousands and thousands that live here - it wasn't created  just for us!

Advice From A Tree

Stand tall and proud
Sink your roots into the earth
Go out on  limb
Remember your roots
Drink plenty of water
Be content with your natural beauty
Enjoy the view





Ian Shamir
Your True Nature

The Power to Choose

In memory of Stephen Covey who passed away last week (July 2012)

"Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom ... the power to choose, to respond, to change." 

Stephen Covey 

Feelings

Take care of your thoughts ...

How could that be done better?

Do you want to invent new concepts, create new inventions, or think of unique ideas? 
No problem. Simply start asking yourself one question about everything you see: 
How could that be done better? 
Ask that and the ideas will come. Sure, they may not all be actionable, but a few will be excellent ones.

One's perception of the world

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

TOM ROBBINS, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues

Go Into Your Wilderness

"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occurwhen we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled.For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort,that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers" 

M. Scott Peck

There is more to life than increasing its speed

Individual Responsibility

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We cannot become ...

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are"

 Max Dupree

Your memory is a monster

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

John Irving

You Only Live Once

The C's In Life

The C's In Life: choices, chances and changes. 

You must make a Choice to take a Chance or your life will never Change

Everything will be all right

Everything will be all right in the end, 

so if it's not all right, 

it is not yet the end!

(from The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel)

Letting Old Beliefs Go

It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.         

                                                                                                   Kenich Ohmae

Your reason and your passion

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.

If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, 

or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.

For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing;

And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

Kahlil Gibran

Look deep into nature

Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better

 Albert Einstein

Persistence - don't quit!

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. 

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

Courtesy Barb Wade, The Coaches Coach

Success Savvy Ezine

Life is like Coffee

Have a look at this:
http://www.flickspire.com/m/lcm/LifeIsLikeCoffee

The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks. 

Sir James Mackintosh

The cure for anything is saltwater

The cure for anything is saltwater
- sweat, tears or the sea

Isak Dinesen