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Category: Coaching

Coaching

Valuing your values – a mini workshop in a post

Many moons ago I crewed for a personal development coach in Hawaii and both coasts. I used to help usher folks across beds of hot coals and jump…

March 14, 2026March 17, 2026 · 6 min read

Rock art by EM Matteson
Coaching

Living Legacy™ and loving turns of phrase

I love turns of phrase, especially those that are, by their nature, contradictory. Living Legacy is one like this. Legacy, by definition, has to do with what you…

December 14, 2025December 14, 2025 · 3 min read

Coaching

The toilet in my back yard

And the knowing that comes from an ‘in house’ metaphor. Last month, we cashed in some Apple shares to have a friend’s brother fix our bathroom. The floor…

June 20, 2025June 20, 2025 · 3 min read

Coaching

making one’s own language

Correspondence, energy, and how to gain self-awareness through making your language, your way. Actually, I’m working on more of symbol set, but that’s semantics for you. This SymbolWorkTM…

May 25, 2025May 26, 2025 · 5 min read

Coaching

Judging or Perceiving | Collector or Renunciate?

Dualistic Mindsets in Myers Briggs and other such things I have a judgy mind. And if you’ve done a Myers-Briggs test and landed squarely with a “J” in…

May 12, 2025May 12, 2025 · 7 min read

Body & Health

Empathy isn’t pathology, Mr. Musk

If you are feeling a bit too much empathy, and it has you on the floor feeling terrible, don’t go to war with it, up-level it into compassion.…

April 11, 2025April 11, 2025 · 4 min read

Coaching

Networking with a beginner’s mind

Backdrop: In 20+ years of my marketing business, I didn’t need to “do networking” because the right people found me at the right times, and my business (and…

April 10, 2025April 10, 2025 · 7 min read

Don't get trapped in a prison of your own making. -W Leitzen
Coaching

intersection of marketing and operations: digital concierge

Key evaluations you need to make before you add any more digital marketing into your life. How many times has someone told you you need a better landing…

April 4, 2025April 7, 2025 · 6 min read

“Fielding Pi” by Elizabeth Mullen Matteson. Digital Symbol Work comprised of digital markup fingerpainting on original photo.
Coaching

Open Hope

Not everyone grew up with the privilege of taking Hope for granted. Hope is a thing of children, even in rough places. It’s a thing of the child…

March 21, 2025March 21, 2025 · 2 min read

Body & Health

High Commitment to a Low Standard

A way to make and sustain great habits. I’m pretty much sure we’ve all heard the adage “practice makes perfect.” And then as adults we recognized that perfection…

March 18, 2025March 18, 2025 · 4 min read

abstract face with glasses
Coaching

Designer Questions to Engineer Endurance, Achievement, and Happiness

Focusing your attention on long-acting, feeling-based, style-specific questions can give you a richer and happier experience of life. What I love about this process is that anyone can…

March 11, 2025March 12, 2025 · 7 min read

Coaching

Truth telling in little bits

Focus, the folly of first-ness, and how symbolic truth-telling connects us to our souls and each other. If any one artist works with the truth of their lives,…

March 2, 2025March 3, 2025 · 4 min read

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