Executive Coaching

Part 2: Creating Your Own Luck with Your internalGPS 3

Last week (linked if you missed it) started with the first of four posts on how to create your own luck. It was all about  living in the moment, laughing and loving. This week is how to use understanding, uniqueness, and utilization to create your own luck. This “LUCK” acronym is a fun way to remember them! Understand In the classic Stephen Covey book, “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” one of the habits is, “seek first to understand.” […]

Saying “I love you” at Work -Is my internalGPS Malfunctioning?

I joined a conference call recently and heard the end of a conversation with, “I love you.” This would not be a shock if it were a call with friends or family or even some Coaches…But, this was a guy I was working with as part of my consulting for a large Aerospace corporation; it was disconcerting! He heard me beep on and said, “Saying I love you is a really quick way to get them off the call” […]

Using Your internalGPS to Choose Happiness & Less Work

A wonderful friend of mine (thank you Andrea!) posted this article on Facebook, “The Top Five Regrets of the Dying.” It is interesting to hear what people had in common as regrets at the end of their life. All five regrets are powerful insights for living; the two that resonated the most with me right now are realizing that it is a choice to be happy and to not work so hard. Choose To Be Happy It is not […]

Five Key Questions For Your internalGPS Annual Tune Up

Take yourself back to a year ago and consider where you were and where you have been:  Are there any 2011 memories that are sapping your energy: Disappointments, resentments, or frustrations? Make it a point to feel them one last time and then let them go or make a plan to do something (if needed) and then let them go. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be […]

How do the Ironman and the Holidays Compare?

My little sister and her husband completed their first (will there be more?) ironman this past Sunday. She and her husband followed a rigorous training program for most of the past year and they were already runners/bikers/swimmers before they started. An ironman course is 2.5 miles of swimming, 100 miles of biking and then a 26.2 mile run (a marathon) to finish it all off. They start at 7am and have till midnight to finish. Yikes! How can I […]

Using Your internalGPS to Illuminate the Darkness 4

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton, 1862-1937, Author I love reflecting the light back to my coaching clients. It is sometimes a challenge for them to see their own light that is buried under big challenges. They need a Coach to reflect it back in order to see it. I also saw the power of my clients doing this in my team coaching this summer. […]

Following Your internalGPS: Goodbye to an Inspirational Model

❝Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Stay hungry. Stay foolish.❞  – Steve Jobs This is from the commencement […]

Listening To My internalGPS & Letting Go

  “Sometimes we have to walk away from everything that has meant security for us in order to reach our dreams” – Stacy Allison–The first American woman to summit Mt. Everest Several years ago, I ended a long marriage that had become miserable and then a couple years ago, I walked away from my big paycheck, big corporate office, and big title to follow my dream. But this was not everything. I still had my big luxurious house. I’m in […]

Positive Thinking & Affirmations Caused Big Malfunctions in My internalGPS 2

What? One of my most popular speeches is called, “Using your internalGPS to Stay Positive & Productive in Difficult Times.” Yet, I strongly believe positive thinking and affirmations are dangerous and can keep you stuck in denial for a long time. It did for me. I was unhappy in my marriage and in my career and kept driving forward with a smile pasted on my face and positive affirmations that I would repeat as a mantra in my head; […]

Get Out of the Middle & Take a Stand 4

In my last post I explained that at the National Speaker’s Association (NSA) convention, two themes emerged for me: Be true to who you are and Take a Stand. Taking a stand means that some people will not like you, they may even hate you. For me, this is scary. One of my strengths is harmony and I would love if everyone loved and respected everyone else and tolerated their differences. Unfortunately, this is not reality and in fact […]