“More from less” – a familiar paradox that very few truly trust and rarely practice. Oh, we might say we value it, but our personal behaviors and routines belie us: stressed, exhausted, lethargic and maybe resentful. As one reads the summary article from The Week’s A Better Way To Work, you probably won’t be surprised by the data that history has shown to be true in creative fields from music to math, hard sciences to psychology…Yet in our American culture from education to government to the marketplace, our job descriptions call for a 40 hour plus work week, requiring being in an office at continuously prescribed time frames. Sure, we have days we work from home and flex-hours, but the fact remains we predominantly believe, even demand from ourselves and our organizations “more from more.” So how can we step out of this paradox of productivity? [Read more…]
Archives for May 2017
What is Transformational Coaching?
Our motto at LifeSource Coaches is ‘transformation from the inside out’. As life and leadership coaches, transformation is what Dave and I are all about. Many people ask me, ‘so what is transformational coaching…really?’ Our friends at GAP Community have put together an entertaining and informative short video explaining transformational coaching. [Read more…]
Forgiveness and Your Health
The more I learn about forgiveness, the more I realize what a powerful tool it is to help people move forward in all aspects of their lives. I know in my own life, I spent my early years thinking about the reasons I did not need to forgive the people who had hurt me. I believed that withholding forgiveness somehow protected me from being hurt again. What I didn’t realize was that unforgiveness actually kept me glued to that person.
Costs of Unforgiveness
Sometimes…I wasn’t actually sure what true forgiveness looked like or how to begin the process. I didn’t realize what it was costing me. [Read more…]