“Everybody’s talking at me. I don’t hear a word their saying. Only the echoes of my mind. People stopping, staring. I can’t see their faces. Only the shadows of their eyes” Harry Nilsson, Everybody’s Talkin’ (1969) 2017 has been a year unlike any other in recent memory. Lots of fear, anxiety, and divisiveness seem to permeate the airwaves and our …
“You gotta have a dream, if you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?” Happy Talk, from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, South Pacific (1949) This New Year’s Day, I found myself running on the Jersey Shore Boardwalk, something I have been doing for many, many years although truth be …
“Your vision will become clear when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” Carl Jung Preface As a professional coach, I have found that my clients will often achieve their best outcomes when we focus our sessions on what I call the 4 C’s of effective coaching — i.e., when …
Like many of you, I think I watched every Charlie Brown TV special and read as many of the Peanuts comic strips I could get my hands on as a young boy growing up in Northern New Jersey. We had our favorite characters for sure – Lucy Van Pelt, Linus, Pig-Pen, Schroeder, and Peppermint Patty. …
Some Reflections on What I Learned in 2015 I am sure many of us find ourselves feeling energized this week as we begin another new year, having had time during the Holidays to reflect on our personal and professional accomplishments over the past year. This process of intense self-reflection is in many ways akin to …
Coaches take a sacred oath when we work with our clients and the oath in many ways embodies the kind of language found in the Ten Commandments we learned growing up as youngsters. In this case, the commandment or oath is simply — “Thou Shalt Not Judge”. Essentially, the oath is a reminder to never …
As a lifelong lover of cars, I have always been intrigued by how the automobile companies use advertising to draw the customer into the showroom. This fascination with cars began at a very early age. Every October, my best friend Robbie K and I would visit each of the new car dealers in our town on the way home …
I love metaphors and how they can easily evoke a powerful image of something that is deeply relevant and meaningful to one’s life. Over the past few months, I have been commuting into New York City a couple of days a week for some courses in coaching that I am taking at NYU. As I …
