Collaborative Transitions Coaching

Sometimes It Just Needs To Be Said

Sometimes it just needs to be said. I am going to express my opinion in this blog, and I’m doing so without it being solicited. I’m going to talk politics, I’m going to slam the media, I’m going to ask some hard questions, and make some statements many of you will take offense to. So, [...]

3 Steps to Choosing What Matters

My life is full of choices lately. Since my sweet spouse retired, my life has changed, and I’ve been forced to reassess what was becoming a comfortable life for me. Karl has been retired for about nine months now. The transition from full-time employment to retirement has been a slow one for him, as it [...]

The Time of Your Life

Every day is the day to begin the Time of Your Life. In order for us to create change in our lives with deliberate intent, it’s important to learn how to make our life exactly what is right for us. Only we can decide what that is, and only we can believe in the possibilities [...]

Marketing 101 – Growing Pains

I received the following inspirational piece in my e-mail today. It definitely created a spark in my brain as I continue to experience constriction in my business, and expansion in my personal life since my sweet spouse retired. I find that I can clearly speak now about what it is that I do, and why [...]

Inner Place of Peace

Several of my clients have asked for a recording of the visualization meditation I do most often. This is one I heard many years ago, and have modified and recorded for my use. I hope you enjoy it. Your Inner Sanctuary

Marketing 101 – Can You Fill 30 Seconds?

What do you tell people when they ask you the question, “what do you do for a living?” This is commonly called the “elevator speech”. I told my marketing coach, Cheryl Hansen, Referral Marketing, NE, that I like to say, “I am the Chief Instigator of Change at Collaborative Transitions Coaching”. She kind of frowned [...]

Marketing 101 – Joy

My marketing guru, Cheryl Hanson, is talking to me about referral marketing, and that is great, because I know that referrals are at the heart of maintaining a steady flow of clients – happy clients tell their friends. It also occurs to me that what we are really talking about is Relationship Marketing. No, not [...]

Life Lessons for Leaders: Forgiveness

I really surprised myself today. I’ve been finalizing a class on Leadership and Forgiveness, and I just knew that I had posted a blog or article over the last three years – at least one! But no, there are none out there. Why was I surprised? Because I think we are in a crisis of [...]

Get Out of My Life, You Are Different Than Me!

It’s time for all people to step into the power of character-based leadership. Leadership based on values that epitomize integrity, respect, humility, trust, and above all, communication. We are facing a crisis of leadership of unimaginable proportions, and choices are being made by the leadership we have elected and some that have been appointed, that [...]

Leadership Perspectives: Acknowledge What Is

I know that you have been inundated over the last several years with the concept of “living in the moment”, “the power of now”, the “gift of the present”. And yet, I’m surprised at how often I have to remind myself and others that we just don’t have the power to change the past, or [...]