How to Win the Mental Game (for anyone aged nine or above)
One of my godsons is nine years old and ranked in the top 20 tennis players aged ten or under in Southern California. He’s been playing since he was four, and his hand-eye coordination is so eye-poppingly good that aged five…
Bending Time
There’s an old joke about a very clever man somehow manages to get himself up to heaven on a day pass and sits down to have a conversation with God. He asks “God, can you explain how eternity looks to you?”….
What Can’t You Create?
Think of something you have thus far failed to achieve or create in your world…
Now answer this question: Is it because you couldn’t, you didn’t really want to, or both? This question speaks to the two primary components…
On Mental Health and High Performance
One of the things I’ve been fascinated by over the past year is deepening my understanding of the link between state of mind, mental health, and high performance. I’ve had coaches and teachers…
Are You Motivated?
Years ago, I was being interviewed for a marketing website for a series that the marketing guy was doing was on networking. The question he asked was…
What’s On Your Eyeballs?
When I used to write what was then called “The DCT” (Daily Coaching Tip), I noticed an interesting phenomenon. As I would go through my day, I would experience things as inspirations…
The Three Keys to Transformative Communication
One of the most important parts of our Supercoach Academy coach training are the supervision sessions. With the client’s permission, our mentor coaches and I listen in on the student’s coaching sessions, offering feedback…
Do You Know What You’re Really Capable Of?
I see coaching as the art of helping people get more out of themselves and their lives. It’s the ability to bring out the best in someone and make the best better – to help people to find capacities…
The Science of Life and the Art of Living
One of the phrases I’ve used for years in promoting Supercoach Academy is “the art and science of transformative coaching”. While I haven’t particularly thought about what I meant by that phrase for a while, this past week I had the chance to reflect on it afresh. Here’s what I saw…
Creativity, God, and a Really Good Cup of Coffee
With religious festivals from both sides of the aisle in full flow over the past week, my now 22 year old son Oliver is visiting home and taking a break from his job…
What’s Your Highest Goal?
The other morning, I was driving my daughter Maisy to school when she asked me “if you had a dollar for every time you overthought things, how rich would you be?”….
Reflections on a Sunday Morning
At the heart of all the work I do is the understanding that we live in the feeling of our thinking – that things like excitement and concern are no different than….
The Path of Effortless Change
A number of years ago, I was approached by a TV producer asking me if I would consider doing a show on eating disorders. When I asked her how she found me, she said that I had helped a friend…
The Three Impacts of a Transformative Coach
I’ve been doing a lot of coaching lately in a variety of different mediums. In the past week, I’ve spent ten minutes or less coaching over two dozen people, an hour or so coaching five people…
The Two Keys to Unconditional Self-Confidence
Since I read my first self-help book back in 1986 (Shakti Gawain’s Creative Visualization), I’ve noticed that broadly speaking they fall into three distinct if occasionally overlapping categories. The first is…