Being Human

“Coaching is more concerned with blindness than with ignorance”  … Julio Olalla, Master Coach You may find this rather strange coming from a coach, but in the past I have struggled to articulate in simple fashion just what I do. When she was young, my daughter developed the quaint notion that my work was to […]

“Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.” … Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004 The idea of living or acting authentically has presented itself to me on a number of occasions over the years and given me pause for reflection over just what

“Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don’t, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.”  … Vaclav Havel (1936 – 2011) Czech playwright, poet and politician Many years ago now, I read an article by Tim Soutphommasane, who was a political philosopher at

“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” … Arthur Ashe (1943 – 1993) US tennis player Here is a question for you. How successful do you feel?  One of the interesting aspects of coaching others lies in exploring their sense of what they have achieved. With life today

Today, we seem to be constantly bombarded with a subtle but clear message that the world and the people in it should perfect. There should be no wars, people should not die in car accidents, people should always act in the right way, people should look like the models on social media, in magazines and

The Voyager 1 spacecraft left Earth on the 5th September 1977 and since then it has visited the outermost planets of our solar system and continues to this day to fly into the unknown. In 1980 the renowned Carl Sagan, of Cosmos fame, suggested that spacecraft take one last photo of the Earth to help us

“This is the ageOf the half-read page.And the quick hashAnd the mad dash.The bright nightWith the nerves tight.The plane hopWith the brief stop.The lamp tanIn a short span.The Big ShotIn a good spot.And the brain strainThe heart pain.And the cat napsTill the spring snaps —And the fun’s done!”  Sound familiar? Amazingly enough this poem was

“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.” … Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish painter and sculptor The term ‘coaching’ seems to have become a catch-all for any process of helping others improve their performance and achieve success. So ubiquitous has the term become that you will

“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.” … Orville Wright (1871 – 1948) US inventor and aviation pioneer In my many years working as an ontological coach, there have been two themes that have shown up over and over