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Without a doubt, you can achieve your dreams

Note: For ten weeks, I am using the Dream Coaching® program to work on my dream of finishing and publishing a book about my trip to Uganda, and I am reporting on my progress in my weekly column. As always, my column is posted on my blog every Friday. To read the series from the beginning, start with the introductory post, dated May 3, 2013. I’m a lousy writer. I’m boring, repetitive, self-absorbed, and idealistic. Not only that, but my book is doomed to fail [...]

By |June 7th, 2013|Coaching, Columns, Uganda, Writing|2 Comments

Dream with No Limits

Note: For ten weeks, I am using the Dream Coaching® program to work on my dream of finishing and publishing a book about my trip to Uganda, and I am reporting on my progress in my weekly column. As always, my column is posted on my blog every Friday. To read the series from the beginning, start with the introductory post, dated May 3, 2013. I went to the Chanhassen Dinner Theatres last week to see “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” one of my [...]

By |May 31st, 2013|Coaching, Columns, Uganda, Writing|Comments Off on Dream with No Limits

A sense of purpose will launch your dreams

Note: For ten weeks, I am using the Dream Coaching® program to work on my dream of finishing and publishing a book about my trip to Uganda, and I am reporting on my progress in my weekly column. As always, my column is posted on my blog every Friday. To read the series from the beginning, start with the introductory post, dated May 3, 2013. The third session of the Dream Coaching program is the one in which people’s hidden traits and talents really start [...]

By |May 24th, 2013|Accountability, Coaching, Columns, Respect, Uganda, Values, Writing|Comments Off on A sense of purpose will launch your dreams

Integrity honors your values, your word, and your dreams

Note: For ten weeks, I am using the Dream Coaching® program to work on my dream of finishing and publishing a book about my trip to Uganda, and I am reporting on my progress in my weekly column. As always, my column is posted on my blog every Friday. To read the series from the beginning, start with the introductory post, dated May 3, 2013. “Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.” I don’t know the source of that quote, but [...]

By |May 17th, 2013|Accountability, Coaching, Columns, Quotes and Sayings, Uganda, Values, Writing|Comments Off on Integrity honors your values, your word, and your dreams

Set an intention, then get moving

Note: For ten weeks, I am using the Dream Coaching® program to work on my dream of finishing and publishing a book about my trip to Uganda, and I am reporting on my progress in my weekly column. As always, my column is posted on my blog every Friday. To read the series from the beginning, start with the introductory post, dated May 3, 2013. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” There are several interpretations of that famous saying. What it says [...]

By |May 10th, 2013|Accountability, Coaching, Columns, Uganda, Writing|Comments Off on Set an intention, then get moving

A fool or a healer? Time will tell.

“Physician, heal thyself!” This ancient proverb isn’t just for doctors. It’s for all of us who sometimes need a reminder that we should be following our own advice, and that what we are telling or teaching others to do is exactly what we should be doing ourselves. That’s where I am right now, and what I’m preparing to do about it makes me feel vulnerable and exposed – because I’m going to be exploring and sharing in print some things about myself that I never [...]

By |May 3rd, 2013|Accountability, Coaching, Columns, Uganda, Writing|2 Comments

Find your buried treasure by clearing away the debris

The snow is finally gone, and the weather is finally spring-like here in Minnesota, so it was a joy to get outside this weekend and tend to my herb garden. Clearing away the winter debris allowed the delicate chive shoots to stand tall, and the bits of green already forming on the thyme and tarragon to get a breath of fresh air. What a welcome and glorious treasure it was to see, with a promise of the bounty yet to come! Sometimes it’s that way [...]

By |April 29th, 2013|Buried Treasure|Comments Off on Find your buried treasure by clearing away the debris

A thoughtful question and response come from a Facebook friend

A Facebook friend of mine – who’s also a friend in real life – posted this question recently: “What one piece of technology should be eliminated for the good of humanity?” Suggestions included the fax machine, cell phones, and Facebook. Some of the responses generated additional comments, such as the “sad but true” observation that without Facebook, civilization as we know it would crumble and fall. Several people chimed in about cell phones, noting that although they were good, they should require a license to [...]

By |April 26th, 2013|Columns|Comments Off on A thoughtful question and response come from a Facebook friend

Ancient wisdom, modern guides

The more time I spend coaching others – or being coached myself in different areas of my life and work – the more power and perception I see in age-old sources of wisdom. Though written eons ago, sayings that date back to Shakespeare, the Bible, Aesop, and whoever came up with the advice we now refer to as “old wives’ tales,” these deceptively simple sayings from ancient times can provide invaluable insights and guidelines for our lives today. “Say what you mean, and mean what [...]

By |April 25th, 2013|Accountability, Coaching, Quotes and Sayings|Comments Off on Ancient wisdom, modern guides

Look on Your Bookshelf for Buried Treasure

When is the last time you took a really good look at what’s on the bookshelves and bookcases in your home? Do it now, and you may find some buried treasure! I’m not talking about knickknacks or works of art you have on display that may indeed be quite valuable. I’m talking about actual books. A coaching client of mine told me last week about a book she’s just started reading – one that she bought a long time ago but didn’t quite get through [...]

By |April 23rd, 2013|Buried Treasure|Comments Off on Look on Your Bookshelf for Buried Treasure