Let’s continue our conversation about Encore Coaching – or coaching for the second, third or fourth act. It sounds wonderful – planning an exciting new phase in your life with the benefit of experience and wisdom! But faced with the option of finally following your dreams and passions can be completely and utterly overwhelming – even paralyzing! For most of us, we may not have ever allowed ourselves to dream and imagine the life of our dreams fully. Speaking for myself, I

A client recently said to me, “I am not done yet!” This client is beginning to think about and plan for retirement. So, what she meant is, while she is looking forward to retirement, she feels that she still has things to do, she still has much to contribute, but she just could not see how or how to plan for a life that wasn’t dominated by her job. This is not unusual, especially for Baby Boomers. I hear this or something similar from many of my clients. While my clients a

Perfectionists feel they have to be the best at everything they do. This doesn’t sound like a bad thing, and many perfectionists excel in their fields. But perfectionism has a downside. When a tiny setback feels like a major personal failure, that’s when perfectionism becomes a problem. Perfectionists often hold themselves, and others, to unrealistic standards that can be the source of conflict and problems. Let’s delve a little more into the reasons behind perfectionism. Per

If you have been working on building your self-esteem and confidence, but feel like you aren’t making progress perhaps you need to take some time to reflect on how you think and feel about yourself. How much work have you done on self-acceptance? Accepting yourself is the first step towards building self-esteem. You cannot feel confident and self-assured if you can’t accept yourself. What is self-acceptance? It is: the awareness of one's strengths and weaknesses, the realis