How To Handle Someone Who Pushes Your “Buttons” My apologies for having skipped a week of postings. I had a lot to catch up on after my 10 day vacation in Maine, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island where I successfully…
Keep Your Advice to Yourself I don’t have a lot of rules that I apply across-the-board. But “Keep your advice to yourself” (unless directly asked for it) is one of them. Why? I have come to know, through my work with…
The Power of Shoe Shifting No, shoe shifting isn’t about selecting a different pair of footwear for your night on the town. It’s about the immeasurably valuable skill of being able to observe a situation from another’s perspective, detached at…
How Can Career Coaching Help Me? Last week, a surgeon named Atul Gawande wrote an article for the “Annals of Medicine” section of the New Yorker magazine titled “Personal Best”. It dealt with his positive experience with a coach, and went…
Ways of Looking at & Experiencing Time Last night virtually the entire nation moved its clocks back an hour as we went from Daylight to Standard time. There always seems to be something magical, mystical, and cosmic in this annual…
Control What You Can An article in last week’s New York Times reported on a focus group of independent voters who saw, in politics, in the media, and in business symptoms of a larger societal ailment. They cited the breakdown…
Remaining Calm in the Storm: Exercising Emotional Self-Control Yesterday I arrived home from my office at 6:30 and noticed the back door was slightly ajar. Sometimes I don’t close it quite firmly enough, so I thought that had been the…
Getting Back on Track Yesterday I had my third session with a client who is in her early 40s, has a PhD in chemistry, a Masters in electrical engineering, and a Bachelor’s in art history, and who attended one of…
“I Shouldn’t Have To” This week I worked with a number of couples’ issues, but two stand out. The first, Couple A, has been less than happy in their marriage for several years. The husband, Logan (pseudonym), came in for…
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