Photo by Polina Zimmerman: https://www.pexels.com/photo/notes-on-board-3782233/ Stay off social media. Lose 20 pounds. Make $1 million in sales. Do these kinds of goals ignite you into action or cause you to recoil in dread? For some, direct, concrete wording is motivating, clarifying, and effective. For others, this verbiage makes them want to give up before they’ve even started. If you find yourself in the latter category, a kinder, more self-compassionate approach to wording… Continue reading
The Lazy Way Out
Recently, one of my time coaching clients told me that although he knew intellectually that being self compassionate was the way to improve, it felt hard to believe that without being self critical he could muster the effort to change.… Continue reading
