A Night In The Museum

A Night In The Museum

The Uffizi Gallery is Florence’s great Renaissance art museum near Piazza della Signoria. Its halls are filled with works by Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian. You can certainly walk through it by yourself. You can admire the paintings,...
My Very Favorite Week of the Year

My Very Favorite Week of the Year

This is my very favorite week of the year. Not because of a holiday or a milestone, but because the gym empties out. The machines are suddenly available. No one is queuing. No loud conversations echoing across the floor. The noise drops away. What remains are the...
Planting For The Future

Planting For The Future

I’d been putting off the task. As I do. But the nights had been pretty cold for the last few weeks; and now, snow was in the forecast. So it needed to be done. Now or never. Planting the daffodil bulbs. The light was low that day. The sky a steel grey. And a...
Now More Than Ever

Now More Than Ever

Good coaches have coaches. In fact, when I train and certify coaches, I require that the candidate be working with a coach. For the last eighteen years, I have relied on my own coach. Because like every other human being, I have the capacity to doubt, to falter, to...
Questions That Change Everything

Questions That Change Everything

Most people spend their days reacting: To emails. To meetings. To other people’s demands. It’s easy to drift like this for weeks, months—even years—without ever stopping to ask what you really want. But there are two questions that cut through the noise. Questions...