Coaching is a Pipe Dream I can’t pinpoint the exact timing, but it’s probably been at least seven years since I’ve been thinking about this coaching thing. I don’t think I fully knew what it was back then, nor had I been coached (in the strictly “life sense”, although I learned a lot about life on the basketball court and hockey field)… It was this amorphous idea, unknown industry, and yet, the idea of being a coach kept popping up: in the lists I would make, in journal entr

Sometimes we try and fore a round peg into a square hole. We push and we shove, and we end up sweating and cursing under our breath, but still, it’s a no go. Does life ever feel like this to you? I know for me it did. Every day, showing up, trying to get myself to like the job with a commute and bureaucratic rules I didn’t want to play by. Screw Being Conventional Hey, convention isn’t all it’s cracked up to be Don’t feel like you have to cross everything off the list (marri

Looking back on three plus decades feels kind of crazy. How did I get here? Anybody else in this age range feeling me? The kids I used to babysit have now graduated college. My 10th college reunion is next month. WTF mates. Here we are, so let’s learn something from it, shall we? Stop giving a shit about what others think. Sooo not worth it. Your heart knows better than your head. Sometimes it takes a little more effort to drop into this space. Logic-ing your way to th

A few weeks ago, if you asked me how things were going, I would’ve lifted in eyebrow and tried to conceal my resting bitch face. Life has felt a bit all over the place lately. Scratch that. What an understatement. Life has been full of uncertainty and those unanswered questions were driving me nuts. I had big ideas for what I wanted to be doing in my coaching business, with my relationship and career. But when I started to think about it, I was feeling the whelm, big time.