As a very small child, whenever I would get discouraged, I would plop myself down on the floor like a doll made of rags and let out a hopeless wail. “I Can’t…..” would be my pitiful cry. “I don’t know how, it’s too hard, I’m too tired.” My mother would turn on a dime, narrow her dark Italian eyes,… Read More
The Biggest Failure is Never Beginning At All
There is a phrase that pops up in coaching now and then when talking to clients about their projects. I didn’t make it up, I *borrowed* it from a 2006 Movie, but I have been using it ever since. It’s the phrase: Failure to Launch. It was a silly romantic comedy about a thirty-something guy who never left mommy and daddy’s… Read More
The Tragic Silence of Not Asking for Help
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each in passing, only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; so on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It is easy to be a ship that sails alone on… Read More