Inoculate Yourself Against Goal-Failure
January 27th, 2012 // 8:11 pm @ Coach Lynn
In our last post, I introduced the idea of competing commitments and how they interfere with accomplishing goals and making the changes we want. Since many of my coaching clients want to make a behavior change of some kind, it’s important to understand why change is so hard. Take the following example: Many people set [...]
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Are You Immune to Change?
January 18th, 2012 // 8:21 pm @ Coach Lynn
January seems to be a great month to seek help with those goals and resolutions you’ve wanted to work on. But let’s face it – change is hard. In an earlier post we identified the 5 Reasons Your New Year’s Resolutions Will Probably Fail. One of those reasons was you haven’t identified your competing commitments. [...]
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Local Coach Helps Residents Become Aware of Their Strengths
January 14th, 2012 // 8:47 am @ Coach Lynn
Carole Peters of Marengo, Illinois knew she wanted to do something different and sought guidance from Lynn Mitchell, a professional coach, to recognize her strengths and focus on the positive aspects of her life. Read more about Carole’s story here.
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5 Reasons your New Year’s Resolutions Will Probably Fail
January 2nd, 2012 // 7:39 pm @ Coach Lynn
As a professional behavioral coach I couldn’t miss the opportunity to talk about New Year’s resolutions this month. It’s the be-all-and-end all of behavior change. It makes me giddy thinking about all the folks out there engaging in the exercise of attempting to change a habit. The problem is I can already predict that most [...]
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Managers, Leaders and Fish
January 2nd, 2012 // 6:22 pm @ Coach Lynn
Are you a manager or a leader? The answer is you are probably both to varying degrees. The question really is, “Are you a manager at the right time, to the right degree, with the right people and are you a leader always? The paradox of holding both these competencies at the same time is [...]
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