Black Sheep Coaching

The Force is in the Flow

Nicole — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:21:21 +0000

I started the Peninsula Black Sheep Meetup Group last year and we have had an amazing and continual growth. At first, I wanted to force it to all come together – I had this vision, you see, and I needed it to happen now. Well, you know where this is going. It hasn’t evolved the [...]

How Yoga Helps Me Love Myself

Nicole — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:10:09 +0000

I just love my yoga teacher, Nicole Mohr. She creates a compassionate space for our practice that actively encourages me to begin practices right there in the studio which I then carry outside to the rest of my life. As we stretch and flex our muscles, flow with the music, and combine our individual practices [...]

A “Black Sheep” Moment – Take a Risk

Nicole — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:38:09 +0000

When my friend Ed Banayat was in junior high, his coach did a leadership exercise with his class. The coach sent 7 people whom he thought should be captain out of the room. He had the remaining 25 people stay. He drew two circles on the board. One was slightly smaller than the other, but [...]

Little Bits of God

Nicole — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:15:47 +0000

You know how you have a conversation with someone and they use some phrasing or words that really catch you and you keeping thinking about it days after? Well, I was talking with Rabbi Paul Shleffar recently and he mentioned how we are all “little bits of God” – humans, animals, trees, the world. And [...]

Hurry Up and Slow Down Already!

Nicole — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:40:48 +0000

The ways I am insane are truly incredible. I just found myself, the other day, rushing through getting ready after a shower so that I could go “get stuff done” so that I could THEN relax and enjoy my life. Instead of slowing down in that moment and enjoying the fresh feeling after a shower, [...]

Humility and Self- Transformation – May I Be Frank?

Nicole — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:22:37 +0000

“The first step in humility is to say ‘I don’t know’ and then ask for help.” Wow. These words really resonated with me because they cut through my pride and perceived fear of being seen as “less than”. To ask for help is to be weak, right? Wrong. To ask for help, to make yourself [...]

The Prison of Expectation

Nicole — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:34:47 +0000

Expectations are prisons. I used to think that the way to achieve a goal was to expect it to happen – those who didn’t expect the best wouldn’t receive it. And yet, I have found that that really isn’t true. It is those who connect to inner strength – and hold on to that through [...]

Responsibility

Nicole — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:49:26 +0000

Two years ago, I stood on the ledge in the redwood trees 40 feet in the air, utterly paralyzed by fear. Though I was harnassed and helmeted and supposedly “safe” I didn’t feel that way at all. I was supposed to jump off the ledge – into thin air – and trust that everything would [...]

4 Questions to Ask to Help You Work Smarter

Nicole — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:17:34 +0000

When I feel overwhelmed, I keep spinning and doing a lot of things that seem important at the time, but are actually not, if I think about it. I learned to stop the insanity by asking myself some questions to help get smoothly back on track. Here are 4 questions to ask yourself in moments [...]

Individual Coaching

admin — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:47:22 +0000

Benefits of Coaching Can Include ● Increased confidence ● Increased motivation and productivity ● Greater clarity on what it is you want and how to get it ● Greater feeling of choice and control over your life ● More creativity and self-expression ● Improved communication skills and relationships ● Increased career and life satisfaction ● [...]