When Perfectionists Get Sick and/or Tired

When Perfectionists Get Sick and/or Tired

Two Things Perfectionists Love about Accountability It is interesting holding perfectionists accountable. Perfectionists gravitate toward accountability because it appeals to their list-making, checkbox filling tendencies. However they stick around for two reasons....

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Starting a new accountability group

Starting a new accountability group

A New Accountability Group I recently started working with a new accountability group. It's fun to work with a new group because you get to teach them how our  process works. You also get to see the effect that being held accountable has on them. I am constantly...

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Show up…Consistently

Show up…Consistently

In an accountability group it's important to show up consistently Our small group coaching program requires a certain level of commitment that many people aren't used to. Part of the agreement of being in an accountability group is that everyone agrees to show up...

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Being held accountable

Being held accountable

Most people like being held accountable, when they do what they say they are going to do Most people like being held accountable because you do better, complete more, and show up more fully when you have it. And that is a wonderful feeling. To reach the finish line,...

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The Happiness Project

The Days are Long but the Years are Short I just finished reading The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. If you haven't heard of it or read it I recommend checking out her blog at www.happiness-project.com. I enjoyed reading about her year of exploring her own...

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What is Enough Business Growth

A Great Question I attended a meeting with a group of fellow entrepreneurs where a member asked if growth (in business) was good just for the sake of it.  She was asking because she was happy with the size of her business. She wanted to know what is enough business...

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A Diagram for Resistance

Sometimes it's helpful to conceptualize our pursuit of our goals and dreams in a concrete way. For these purposes I'm sharing the diagram for resistance I use with my own coaching clients. Point A Imagine a straight line. On one end you have Point A, it is where you...

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