An Apple a Day keeps the Doctor away
An Apple a Day keeps the Doctor away? Sure, we’ve all heard that old piece of sage advice. We might even believe in its message. So how many of us DO IT? Do you? How bout 8 glasses of water per day? 7-8 hours of sleep a night? 20-30 minutes of exercise per day? There is an old Zen Buddhist …
Coaching Excellence- Just in TIME
Finding maximum inspiration just in TIME Everyone has had the experience of scrambling to meet a deadline. We all know the sense of urgency deadlines impose. Even great art has sometimes been created on a deadline. I have previously written in this blog of an experience from a long time ago, when I was a student composer at a New …
Story telling for the Life Coach
First, let me remind you of a Chinese Taoist story that I previously posted in this blog back in May 9th, 2012. If you want to read the entire story (it’s not long) here’s the link: (https://ericksonian.com/-MAIN/?blog=using-stories-in-coaching) Basically the story involves an old Chinese village suffering from a drought so they send for a Rainmaker. He arrives in town and …
Coaching Tips from Ibsen and Erickson
As couple of weeks ago in Oslo, Norway I visited the former home – now museum – of Henrik Ibsen, the great Norwegian playwright. As I noted in a previous blog post, Ibsen had a large portrait of August Strindberg hanging in his studio. This is surprising because Strindberg was, in Ibsen’s words, his “mortal enemy.” Ibsen kept his portrait …
Using Questions to SHIFT your FOCUS; plus Coaching vs Consulting
The Power of Questions to SHIFT your FOCUS The Summer is unofficially over and many are not sorry to see it go. Record heat, in some areas, and a crushing drought has certainly been the major headline for much of the United States. It’s challenging, isn’t it, to think of things like NLP and Hypnosis training as being all that …
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