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If you want to improve your relationship with your children, your spouse, your coworkers, or anyone else, learn to acknowledge their feelings before you seek to fix their problem.  Sometimes we hear someone’s problem and immediately respond with, “You should . . .” or...

Let’s face it – creating a vision and developing a strategy does not assure that anything is going to change. Change is going to come about by taking very specific ACTIONS on a routine basis. Taking action moves you forward. In other words, you have to do something...

Visioning is the process of creating a picture in your mind of what you want for your life in the future. This includes all aspects of your life – health, finances, relationship, career and more. The most successful people in the world are people who create and fulfil...

  Now is the time to recover from last year’s challenges, do a life audit, get back on track, look to the New Year with optimism and excitement, set new goals and celebrate your life! To celebrate the New Year 2021, at Ithaca Global Coaching Academy, I am excited...

During the “Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration” in the early 20th century, two men – the Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen, and the British, Robert Falcon Scott – both planned separate expeditions to be the first explorers to reach the South Pole. They had the same...

Do you think of yourself as a leader? Do you enjoy leading? As you were growing up, did people tell you that you had natural leadership qualities? If you don’t see yourself as a leader, know that you are leading and probably not even knowing it. Why? Because we are...

According to the Oxford Learner’s Dictionary, an assumption is ‘a belief or feeling that something is true or that something will happen, although there is no proof.’ We all make assumptions. We naturally fill in gaps in what we think and perceive so that we can make...

In sculpting his masterpiece David, Michelangelo said that he was “setting free the angel that was inside the rock” (Chris Widener, The Angel Inside), that he was merely chipping away from the marble everything that was not David. In other words, one needs only remove...

One year after Alexandra Scott was born in 1996, doctors diagnosed her with Neuroblastoma, a crippling, yet common form of childhood cancer.  On her 4th birthday, she told her mother she wanted to start a lemonade stand to help other kids with similar conditions. ...

Jim was eating his sandwich when the call came in.  The alarm bells startled him, and he dropped a dollop of mustard onto his starched white uniform.  Bill ran into the locker room and said “Hurry Jim, this is our call!”  Jim stopped munching long enough to tell his...

During the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong soldiers were especially adept at ambushes. Their most successful ambushes utilised an “L” shaped design, because it allowed for maximum coverage of the space inside of the “L.”  This was a HUGE problem, and American soldiers fell...

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make when they go by.” ~ Douglas Adams Douglas Adams authored the literary cult classic, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, among numerous other novels.  He was also an outrageously chronic procrastinator. His failure...

General George McLellan was well known for his ability to train and prepare troops for war.  He put his soldiers through rigorous training scenarios over and over until they were able to work as a cohesive unit, and he meticulously strategized battle plans until they...

Keelan Glass from Abilene, Texas laces on her shoes before the race, warms up a little, and stretches before heading out to the starting line with the other runners.  About 2 years ago she ran her first 5k, and she stepped up to the 10k level last year.  This will be...

Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick, one of the most well-known stories of all time.  He also suffered from chronic procrastination for the entirety of his career.  However, he knew how to get a handle on his bad habit…he had his wife chain him to his writing desk so he...