http://suzannokooncoaching.com/blog Thoughts, Directions, Visions, Growth and Life Coaching Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:02:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Twenty-two years ago this month, I sat with my father in the intensive care waiting room at Jewish Hospital. We had just had another visit from the surgeon who was explaining what complications my mother was experiencing and what needed to be done. As usual, as soon as the doctor ... http://suzannokooncoaching.com/blog/2008/08/17/you-can-bedo-whatever-you-set-your-mind-to/ A theme that is emerging in both my therapy and life coaching practices is one that has to do with one's ability to decide what's right for themselves versus what they 'should' do. More times then not, when I ask a client to consider whether their choice is based on ... http://suzannokooncoaching.com/blog/2008/08/07/shoulds-versus-wants/ I need to add to my list from my previous post. If you keep running into the same kind of problem over and over, it is likely a life lesson you need to learn. What do I mean? Well, I will take one of my own life examples.  I can always get ... http://suzannokooncoaching.com/blog/2008/08/07/make-that-8/ To my current and future clients: I will continue to stress the following 7 life truths. Once you have mastered these truths, you will be able to get unstuck and move to your greatest potential. My Friday writings will address these 7 truths. Watch for them. You are who you think ... http://suzannokooncoaching.com/blog/2008/08/05/7-truths-of-life/ Fulfillment and Finances are taking center stage as the focus of Baby Boomers who are reaching “retirement age”. Ask yourself or someone who might be in this stage in life, the following questions. ·        How do I want to spend the next 20 or 30 years of my life? ·        What ... http://suzannokooncoaching.com/blog/2008/08/03/fulfillment-and-finances/ I'd like to share a piece offered by Philip Humbert, PhD, http://www.philiphumbert.com in his weekly newsletter. If you are thinking about what success means and how to be successful, I say start with these: The Fundamentals of Success In life, and in business, there are only a few fundamentals that make life ... http://suzannokooncoaching.com/blog/2008/07/27/success-at-any-age/ I was working with my coach today (Yes, coaches have coaches!) discussing my vision of success. In the process I was able to really get clear about what I mean by success. When I am "fully me", I am successful. There wasn't one thought about the amount of money I ... http://suzannokooncoaching.com/blog/2008/07/26/how-do-you-define-success/ We had dinner with some cousins last night and I was struck by one comment. My cousin's father has been retired and living in Florida longer than he had worked/owned his retail clothing store! I'm not sure if Cousin Willie knew he would be retired longer than he worked! But ... http://suzannokooncoaching.com/blog/2008/07/26/42/ My therapy practice has experienced a flood a new adults (18 to 28 years old) recently. That wouldn't be so dramatic by itself, but the challenges they are bringing to the therapy sessions are remarkably the same! The situations usually sound something like this: I'm a failure. I can't seem to ... http://suzannokooncoaching.com/blog/2008/07/26/setting-boundries-for-the-new-adult-and-their-parents/ In many situations, clients talk about how someone else 'made them feel'. I think of that as a person's interpretation of someone else's behavior. But to take that point a step further, I reread a book by Dave Ellis called the Human Being Book, and am now focusing on the ... http://suzannokooncoaching.com/blog/2008/05/15/move-from-reaction-to-response/