How’s Your Life So Far?

  I spent the last week in Wisconsin hanging out with my 80-year old parents (well, to be completely fair, my mom doesn’t turn 80 until January).  Mom’s total knee replacement surgery a week ago today, was the impetus for my visit. Although my parents didn’t really NEED me there, it was nice to experience the ups and downs of the surgery and the complications that followed, together. In the process, we did a lot of remembering, shared our “bucket lists”, and did some

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What’s Your Question?

One of my coaching colleagues has a very clever business card that says in big bold print: “I HAVE QUESTIONS, YOU HAVE ANSWERS.” But, most of us would ask, aren’t people who come for coaching the ones who are asking the questions? And aren’t coaches supposed to be the answer people? Yes and No. Yes, most people do come to coaching with questions about their lives. But coaches do not have the answers. Instead, coaches use provacative open-ended QUESTIONS that invite

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