I often recommend that clients (prospective, current, and past) go to my blog index, search through the titles, and read the posts that catch their interest. But having now written over 200 entries to my blog, averaging about 650 words…
“The Value We Place on Ourselves Is Usually the Value Others Place on Us” Management guru John C. Maxwell feels that self esteem is the single most significant key to a person’s behavior. And behavior (from the way you present…
The majority of clients that I work with are unclear as to their career goals. They almost all uniformly admire those people “lucky enough” to have a clear career goal, or a passion, that guides them in their professional lives.…
One of the first posts I wrote was entitled “Choosing Your Thoughts”. It deals with the active process of deciding where we want to focus our attention, and can best be summarized by stating that in almost all instances it…
Arrived at Baltimore airport for my flight to L.A. this morning, only to discover that it wasn’t a nonstop. I was briefly annoyed and then, realizing there was nothing I could do about it, dropped the annoyance and started writing…
Today I return to what is probably my favorite subject – improving your ability to direct your thoughts so that what you wind up focusing on leaves you feeling better rather than worse. Last night I had a session with…
The Supreme Court’s approval of gay marriage yesterday caps off a week in which Commitment has been a constant theme for me. Four of my clients this week have been struggling with that issue, and so I’m writing about it…
Aging. A word with few positive connotations, and particularly when it comes to careers. A concern that is shared by, if not a majority, certainly a plurality of my clients – almost irrespective of their actual chronological status. Believe it…
The link below will take you to the interview with me in this month’s Washingtonian magazine in which I and another coach / therapist answer a number of questions relating to how we work and the philosophy behind our approaches. http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/businesscareers/21337.html…
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