Category: Coaching Nuggets

Who are you? Not “who are you?” But “who are you?” What sits at the core of your being? What makes you you? How would you describe yourself? What drives you? What do you

I’ve been thinking about what it means to serve, lately…  Having recently spent a week abroad within a cultural context where “coaching” is seen as a “tell me what to do” kind

The Future of Coaching?    The Future… hmmmm….      A hazy gaze into the distance.      A hand gesture to wipe away the clouds of uncertainty.    

When I was growing up, my dad was one of the most impatient people I knew. Given how much patience it requires to be an effective coach, rebelling against his

Hey,  Martin and I had a chat the week before I wrote this during which he invited me to consider stepping up my game from “weekly-or-so” to committing to “actually weekly”. So this

Leah is 9 months old now. As she’s growing up with three languages, she’s expected to start speaking later than usual. And when I found out that there’s an app

I had to seriously bite my tongue when the moving truck finally arrived: 5 days late, with all my plants probably dead; significant extra cost; terrible planning; mostly non-existent communication;

If Sisyphus was a butterfly… Some of my coaching sessions make my blood boil. What gets me is the injustice and absurdity of the system within which these clients operate.

I’ll miss East London for its street art. This one caught my attention this weekend: What do you think this person is experiencing? My wife and I certainly had quite

What you see… If you’ve met me online in late September of 2022, you probably saw something like this: But if you had happened to walk through that door in