A fellow business coach suggested that only a tiny fraction of people trying to make it in business are “cut out” to be entrepreneurs.

Her reasoning was that people don’t want to do the hard work and they complain too much. (Wasn’t she complaining as she said this?)

I get impatient with this kind of gatekeeping. The thing that I like most about small business is that anybody can do it.

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In this very moment, what is bothering you?

Is there anything nagging you? Any prickle of discomfort that points to something that you know you need to resolve?

It’s funny how something small, like remembering that we need to follow up to change next month’s dentist appointment, can occupy so much space in our heads.

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I’m currently involved in a few reciprocal coaching relationships.

There are certainly moments when my conversation partner and I are giving each other new information or insights. But so often, I’m offering advice that the other person could have given me, and vice versa.

We already know what we should do, but we have a hard time seeing it until it’s reflected back to us.

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I have trouble writing fiction, and I discovered a key reason when I attempted to do NaNoWriMo: I don’t like to make bad things happen to my characters.

I don’t want to break their hearts. I don’t even want to inconvenience them.

I mean, Dorothy Gale goes to all of that trouble to get to the Wizard of Oz only to discover that she had the power to get back to Kansas the whole time.

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In my work with teams, one of the biggest challenges is to get leaders to stick to the meetings that matter.

Especially when the boss is the owner of the company and trying to streamline her schedule, she’ll have a tendency to cancel the weekly check-in meetings with her direct reports once things are under control.

This is a big mistake. First of all, it means that she’s training her team to only communicate (and communicate with her) when there’s a problem.

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