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Skipping Shavasana – Nobody Wants to Die

After having been gone from London for six months, returning has been in some ways unsettling. The moving forest of human trees with black trunks and placid faces, the continual sabotage of curiosity by averted gazes and the absolute unacceptability of physical contact in crowded places stands out for me against the contrast of brightRead More

The Softest One

“They should just drop a bomb on the country and blow them all the fuck up,” he said. I watched his face after he’d finished. His chin was stubbled. I hadn’t noticed before, but now the roughness and the hardness of it was all I could see The rest of me was back on theRead More

‘American Sniper’ Shot me in the Heart and Gut

Last night we went to see the new Bradley Cooper film ‘American Sniper’. As we crunched our way across the quiet, icy parking lot towards the cinema I was mildly aware of an ambient discomfort with going to see a film depicting real-life, present day war. By halfway through the opening scene, my wife wasRead More

Create Coaching Clients by Coaching People – Coaching Jude

People make the whole ‘client creation’ thing so difficult by putting all sorts of stuff between themselves and actually having a client. My method for creating clients in my coaching business is simple. I do just one thing: Coach In this video, I show Jude how coaching clients are not something she has to getRead More

Talk is Cheap. Integrity Creates – Coaching Jude

I didn’t tell Jude this when I was coaching her, but she and I had something in common. Up until this coaching conversation, Jude and I had both been talking about writing a book for ages. We thought about doing it. We had said we would do it. But we hadn’t done it. Or even seriously startedRead More

How to Find Speaker Opportunities – Coaching Jude

I like the idea that a vision is not a place to get TO, but a place to come FROM. In this short clip of a coaching conversation I had with Jude, she tells me how she wants to be doing more public talks. Certainly one could explore all the different strategies to creating such anRead More

Steve Hardison – The Window Cleaner

When Steve Hardison ( www.theultimatecoach.com ) first saw me in London this weekend, he hugged me and then grabbed me by the shoulders and stared into my eyes. If his energy didn’t feel so loving and authentic, I would have probably been weirded out. Instead I felt comfortable and curious. Through his faintly tinted sunglasses,Read More