Speaking True: Best Coaching Ever

Speaking True: Best Coaching Ever

Some years ago, I had one of those great learning opportunities that come to us as people, professionals, etc. What that opportunity taught me was that maybe sometimes just listening really is the best value we can offer. I realized that's a little harder for those of us who think with our egos.

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Gotta Go Low

Gotta Go Low

How does one choose the high road when a current reality may be horrible? Therein lies the great and strange conundrum we all face. Because we have not found our way to our own inner place of reconciliation with ourselves, we carry frustrations, resentments, prejudices and condemnation into our attitudes, actions and lives.

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Speaking True: Enneagram Virtues

Speaking True: Enneagram Virtues

In my professional human development world, I spend a lot of time working with psychological assessments. One of the things I really like about the Enneagram is the way it thinks of us as humans. It doesn't think you ought to be different. It knows that you are who you are, you're baked the way you're baked.

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Thriving Is Our Nature

Thriving Is Our Nature

Recent interactions with a few acquaintances has captured and focused my attention on the aging process, and whether we are continuing to grow and thrive, or contracting into a slow disintegration. Our psychology and physiology that are like sunlight to the psyche and body. Literally, meaning and relevance awaken and invigorate us.

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Speaking True: Calling Up Not Out

Speaking True: Calling Up Not Out

Sometimes I come across research that I am enthralled by. That happened not too long ago, about two years actually, when I saw some incredible data. The data said that the best developmental interaction is interaction that allows the recipient a relationship of seven to one positive experiences to negative.

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