February 11, 2020 / Blog / 10 Comments
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“I think I’m bad at joy,” said my client Laura at the start of our last coaching call.
She went on to tell me about a mini road trip she and her boyfriend took over the weekend. There was a moment in the car when everything felt right in the world — the sun was shining, the windows were down, her favorite music was blasting, and her boyfriend smiled over at her and put his arm around the back of her seat.
“I literally thought my heart was going to burst, I was so blissed out …
February 4, 2020 / Blog / 28 Comments
Have you ever met someone who’s always known what they wanted to do?
They were 5 years old and sure they’d be a writer or a nurse or an engineer, went and did exactly that, and are still doing it to this day?
You probably have.
And while those people didn’t set out to make the rest of us feel bad … it sort of happens inadvertently, doesn’t it?
Liz Gilbert (the author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic) calls these people “jackhammers.” As in, they drill down with mega-focus on one thing that they’re really passionate about and they hammer away at it forever. She’s a self-admitted jackhammer, herself, when it comes …
