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Embracing Paradox In Coaching, and In Life

As a coach and teacher, I try to make sense of the world and help others gain clarity as well. There are some experiences that just can’t be made sense of. Life is a mystery sometimes.

My friend, Rich Hansen, just release a book calledParadox Lost: Rediscovering the Mystery of Godwhere he explores Biblical paradox. We spoke together about how paradox shows up in coaching and in life.

Keith: Congratulations on your new book! I first heard about it when you attended the Coaching Mastery Certifi...

How To View Money As A Tool, Not The Goal

Money is a funny thing.It’s paper and metal, yethas powerful hold on us. We measure ourselves and others by how much wehave. The truth is money isa tool. Your lifechanges when you view money as a tool, not the goal.

In my garage I have many tools. Each is useful for something. Myshovel is useful fordigging holes. I don’t collect shovels or display shovels. If I didn’t have a yard, I would get rid of my shovel because it’s just a tool. It has no value to me beyond digging holes.

Money is a too...

Money Is A Tool, Not The Goal

Money is a funny thing.It’s paper and metal, andhas powerful hold on us. We measure ourselves and others by how much wehave. The truth is money isa tool. Your lifechanges when you view money as a tool, not the goal.

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In my garage I have many tools. Each is useful for something. Myshovel is useful fordigging holes. I don’t collect shovels or display shovels. If I didn’t have a yard, I would get rid of my shovel because it’s just a tool. It has no value to me beyond digging holes.

Money is a too...

“Open Doors” Is The Wrong Way To Make Decisions

A business owner told me he wanted to expand into a new market but hadn’t found an open door yet. I smiled and said, “Sometimes you’ve got to kick adoor in to open it.” Looking for an open door is the wrong way to make a decision.

It’s surprising to me how popular it is to make decisions based on “open doors.” As you explore opportunities, you look for opendoors. If a door is closed, you continue looking until you findan open one.

I’ve heard this decision-making grid applied to job hunting, s...

How To Parent Teenagers Without Going Crazy

Parenting our children’s teen years ischallenging. We must adapt our parenting skills to the changes taking place in our teenagers. Here’s how to parent teenagers without going crazy.

Parents are at a disadvantage when it comes to their teenage children. We view them as immature children who need our guidance to keep their lives from imploding. Teens are slightly taller and pimplier versions of the people we’ve been driving to games, feeding, cleaning up after, and tucking into bed at night.

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Coaching Will Challenge Your Value As A Leader

Where do you get your sense of value? From giving advice? Knowing information? Getting things done? Coaching will challenge your value as a leader. The key to becoming an excellent coach is to change your beliefs about what makes you valuable.

Coaching skills are fairly easy to learn. What is difficult is changing your mind aboutwhat makes us feel valuable so that we will use coaching skills in our interactions with others. Often the reason we don’t is the practice of coaching conflicts with...

The Problem With How-To Spirituality

I love being productive. Thatsame desire can easilybecome the focus of my spirituality, making spirituality a means to greater personal productivity. I call that focus How-To Spirituality. Here’s the problem with How-To Spirituality with a nudgeto embrace Whole Spirituality.

There’s a growing interest in spirituality, even while adherence to organized religion is in decline. This trend isn’t surprising. It’s followsas a result of more people practicing a How-To Spirituality.

How-To Spirituali...

Don’t Get Attached To Your Advice

It’s easy to become attached to theadvice, feedback, and ideas we give to other people. We’re trying to be helpful, but when the person doesn’t take our suggestions we try to convince them. That’s attachment. Here’s how to share with others with no strings attached.

A listener to a popular podcast emailed the presenter to let her know that he loved her podcast, but the sound quality wasn’t great. Since he had atechnical background, he suggested a couple of ways to improve it. The podcast pres...

How To Support Your Author Friend

So your friend published a book. Fantastic! Publishing is one of the most vulnerable things a person can do. Here are 10 ways forhow tosupport your author friend.

The idea for this article came to me as I remembered something I did years ago with a friend who published a book. He was excited about this big milestone in his life and so was I. We were at a conference together where he was launching his book. I asked himfor “the friend” discount. He looked a bit surprised and gave me a complemen...

How To Improve your Coaching Conversations [VIDEO]

During an interview withDerek Ouellette for the iGospelSummit, heasked me if thereisa step-by-step process for a coaching conversation. There is.In this video Derek and I talk about The COACH Model.

Years ago, I was looking for a process that would result in relevant conversations that produce new awareness and action. It needed to be simple and memorable. I developed The COACH Modeland have since taught it around the world with more than 10,000 leaders.

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