GLOBAL COACHING
Reading time: 7 minutesThinking time: You have a lifetime Recently I read this post on social media. A colleague of mine, coach herself, was pretty hard on coaches that don't have their own shit together. She wrote she would 'never pick a coach to work with that didn't have it all.' The money. The clients.… Continue reading THANKS BUT NO THANKS (THE PERFECT LIFE)
Reading time: 6 minutesThinking time: enough to take a ride? Every Tesla driver will know the phenomenon. When on adaptive cruise control or autopilot, your car mistakes a road sign for a person or is triggered by a truck slightly crossing the line and suddenly brakes. Where the brain of your car detects a possible… Continue reading PHANTOM BRAKING (Never tailgate a Tesla)
Reading time: 6 minutesThinking time: Take as long as you wish She's sitting in front of me. Frustrated. Crying being much closer to her than laughing. "They simply don't take the time to get to know me," she says, "never before have I had such negative feedback. It's a stab in in the back. I… Continue reading DO NO-THING (STOP!)
Reading time: 6 minutesThinking time: just give it a 1 ... 2 ... 3 For me personally, the year 2021 started off on the wrong foot. Even though - in spite of Covid-19 - my business was and still is thriving, in my private life I felt alone, miserable, a bit hopeless and not in… Continue reading FEELING SAD OR BAD? COUNT TO 3
Reading time: 4 minutesThinking time: If only I knew ... When I was a young child, my parents, long divorced by now, had a habit of arguing a lot, mostly late at night. Way too often I overheard them, sometimes evening after evening, shouting to each other. My mom crying out loud, throwing things at… Continue reading UNINTENTIONALLY FAKE
Reading time: 4 minutesThinking time: 1 minute each time you get stuck We all know at least one person that goes out of his or her way to meet others whenever possible. Not meet as in ‘seeing other people’ but meet as in ‘meeting them in the middle’. Not disappointing. Compromising. Satisfying the other ones… Continue reading THE 2 BIGGEST DOWNSIDES OF PLEASING
Why some of us struggle to work from home and others don't
Reading time: 5 minutesThinking time: take as long as you wish 'Just do it doesn't exist', something I tell my coaching clients on a very regular basis. You could say this is definitely one of my favourite quotes. There is a huge and important difference between knowing what to do, and actually doing it. Think… Continue reading THE KNOWING DOING GAP
Reading time: 1 minuteThinking time: the rest of your life? In these strange and unsure times, what might be the single most important challenge for all of us, is to (continue to) set the right goals and to keep the focus (and our energy) on our (read your!) priorities. Don't know where to begin? Here… Continue reading PERSONAL LEADERSHIP: ONE MINUTE EXERCISE
Reading time: 2 minutesThinking time: take as much as you need Crises and survival strategies. Sounds like a perfectly logical combination, right? I guess there's no need to argue on that. The only question is: is your survival strategy empowering or self-limiting? I'm pretty sure, if you chose without paying attention, you picked the wrong… Continue reading WHY COVID-19 MAKES YOU LEAN TOWARDS YOUR LIMITING SURVIVAL STRATEGY
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