I was reminded about the hammer-nail quote yesterday, found that one plus some more.
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
A musician must [...]
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Category Archives: Coaching
Abraham Maslow Quotes
eMentoring and eCoaching
I work as coach and mentor. It has so far been done face to face with an occasional dash of emails and chat. That works very well but it limits my market to people I can meet in real life.
I now have the opportunity to develop a location independent version of my services. The e-version [...]
The Shadow Effect
During the weekend I have read The Shadow Effect – Illuminating the Hidden Power of Your True Self by Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford and Marianne Williamson. It’s a very interesting book and I recommend it.
The shadow exists within all of us. It is a part of us and yet we spend most of our life [...]
Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action
Through The Power of Why I found How great leaders inspire action by Simon Sinek. It’s a great presentation about the power of starting from “why”, to define your purpose and why you do what you do. Having a clear purpose, the “Why”, makes you stand out in the crowd and gives people a reason [...]
Productivity in 11 Words
Today I was reminded about Productivity in 11 Words at Skelliewag through a post by Penelope Trunk who had seen it at Lifehacker.
Skellie has summed it up in three lines and eleven words. It’s brilliant, short and to the point:
One thing at a time.
Most important thing first.
Start now.
It goes well with The only thing you [...]
The only thing you can change
mnmlist has a post about the only thing you can change, a great reminder that even a long journey begins with a small step. Here is what resonates most with me right now:
You can’t change your entire life. You can only change your next action.
You can’t declutter your entire life. You can only choose to [...]
Three Words Become Five
Chris Brogan has his 3 Words for 2010, with a second level on some of them. Jonathan Fields lists his 10 driving keywords for 2010 in Oh The Places You Will Go.
I list my three key words in Ready for 2010:
Trust means to trust my inner voice, to build trust and to be trustworthy.
Connect goes [...]
Seth Godin and Linchpin
Seth Godin launches his latest book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to Drive Your Career and Create a Remarkable Future in an unusual way. Today he is interviewed or guest post around the blogosphere, a good starting point is his own post The 2.0 media tour. I have followed some of the links and this [...]
Take a Walk
I subscribe to the newsletter “A Month of Me Time” from The Calm Space. It’s nice reminders, “Simple Daily Actions to Nourish Your Soul”. Today it was about the benefits of walking and I love the included quote.
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of [...]
Ready for 2010
Last year I did post My Best Year Yet 2009 based on the book Your Best Year Yet which describes a great way of working with your plans and evaluation. This year I create a different kind of post, showing where my inspiration comes from in different areas of my process to get ready for [...]
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