As of the moment I’m writing this, our first grandbaby’s due date has come… and gone. And my daughter is still (very) pregnant. In fact, she and Paul attended the out-of-town wedding for Kelly’s med-school roommate on her due date. Until the baby arrives, life remains normal…. Babies don’t pay much attention to deadlines and … Read more
Studies in the workplace have concluded that the best leaders hit or exceed what’s considered the ideal balance of positive interactions to negative ones. Well, guess what? It’s not just about the workplace! In this less-than-90-second video, John Gottman shares what he knows from two decades of studying personal relationships. (John is the guy who … Read more
For the past 32 years I’ve been married to an amazing woman who has partnered with me in raising a great family, but who pretty much left me alone when it came to running my coaching and consulting business (except for balancing the books!). A few years ago, however, she started to pay more attention … Read more
Last Sunday was Valentine’s Day, when we turn our thoughts to the important Others in our life, the people we love. Clearly, it’s important to acknowledge the loves in your life, but… what about you? I coach many different people, yet see a very common human concern show up often: a struggle with self-acceptance and … Read more
Remember Susan Boyle, the frumpy Britain’s Got Talent contestant who wowed the world with her voice and got 6 Million hits on You Tube? Well, here’s another phenomenal talent video, with nearly as many views… but that you’ve never heard of. Why? Because most of the views are from China. Here’s my shortened version of … Read more
My mother turned 75 last month. She’s in pretty good health for an old lady who raised eight kids and has 19 grandchildren. My dad passed away 23 years ago, and Mom turned out to be quite the survivor — she went to work for Kelly Girls as a permatemp for many years, finished raising … Read more
One of my clients has been blogging her way through the coaching experience. After years of holding all her thoughts inside, she’s discovered that writing helps her reveal herself to herself. Recently, we revisted an old topic — ♥ self love.♥ This client (who goes by the anonymous title of Spudsie, a childhood nickname) is … Read more
In a recent coaching teleclass a participant asked, “is it our mood that creates our language, or is it the words and stories we use that create our mood?” She was looking for a neat and crisp definition of how people work. It ain’t that simple. Figuring out how people work is like solving the … Read more
My eldest child, Kelly (a regular reader of this blog), has been bugging me since I started it, asking, “when are you gonna write a column about ME?” For a long time I put her off by pointing out that this is my professional blog, not personal. Well, since I recently wrote about BOTH of … Read more
One of the other speakers at the Singapore HR Summit was Ngahi Bidois, who calls himself a New Age Maori Warrior. Ngahi — his full name is , Ngahihi o te ra Bidois, which means Rays of the Sun — is from New Zealand. 20 years ago Ngahi was a college-educated, high-flying, young executive-in-training with … Read more