“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?” — New International Version Bible Matthew 7:3 On a sunny August day, you see your shadow. The shadow you see is a reflection of your physical body and very visible. But not all shadows are so easy to see. There’s another shadow within us that reflects our personality. This shadow can be elusive and hard to
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Do you ever ask yourself questions like like “Does my life have meaning?” or “Will I leave anything of value behind when I die?” or “Are the contributions I make at work or in my personal life worth anything?” I certainly do, and I know that many of my clients do too. In a recent article, Parker Palmer suggests that asking such questions is a “road to nowhere.“ His article, “The Big Question: Does My Life Have Meaning?” provides a
Read more →Although life coaching is all about “growing forward”, our pasts can sometimes get in the way of the very progress we say we want to make. We get stuck, we hit roadblocks, we sabotage ourselves, we have difficulty in relationships. Sometimes it’s important to pause, reflect and learn from our past. We can then apply this self-awareness into our current reality and be in a better position to move forward. Take “difficulty in relationships” for example. This just happens
Read more →“We have to keep asking God to help us see clearly what our call is and to give us the strength to live out that call with trust.” — Henri Nouwen Do you ever feel lost? Like you need a compass to help you navigate your life from the inside out rather than being at the mercy of life’s changes? Dawna Markova provides such a compass in her book, I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion.
Read more →The pictures I remember seeing of myself as a child are limited. Yes, there were baby pictures of my siblings and me hanging in the house, but my parents stored most of their photos as slides which were packed into small cardboard boxes in the hallway closet. Upon occasion, my parents would use a slide-viewer or slide projector to view the slides with us kids, but rarely did we get through all of them. When one of my brothers recently digitalized hundreds of my parent’s slides for a family
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