by Lisa Kohn | Feb 13, 2025 | Personal growth
Why is “no” such a difficult thing to say? We’re great at it when we’re two. “No” seems to be our favorite word at that age (at least it was for my kids). But somewhere along the line we forget that ability; we forget the word....
by Robyn McLeod | Jan 16, 2025 | Personal growth
How easily are you discouraged from doing something you want to do? How quickly do you bend to pressure? My nephew, Cameron, recently served as a great reminder that sometimes bucking popular opinion is the right way to go. Cameron was enrolled as an arts major at a...
by Lisa Kohn | Nov 7, 2024 | Personal growth
I was talking with a client the other day. They had a lot going on – at work and at home – and they had been handling it up until then. But even from the very beginning of our phone call, it was clear that my client was done. Done in, in fact. There are times when we...
by Chatsworth Consulting Group | Sep 17, 2024 | Personal growth
“The instant I fully accept one of life’s waves, I shift away from worry and open up to creativity and possibility.” ~Andrea Gibson A client was telling me about a tough situation they were facing. Their boss had decided, with no input from my client, to simply shift...
by Chatsworth Consulting Group | Sep 3, 2024 | Personal growth
“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.” ~Theodore Roosevelt Why is it that we (that I) get so hung up on the mistakes we make? Or even sometimes on the mistakes that others make around us. What is this notion that somehow resides...
by Chatsworth Consulting Group | Aug 6, 2024 | Personal growth
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.” ~Erica Jong The other day I noticed a pattern during a recent coaching session. It was pretty obvious and hard to miss. My client was sharing a number of situations she was facing...