Writing
Principles and inspiration for the professional hero.
How to Serve in Times of Crisis
As the events of the world continue to deepen into an unprecedented state, I have been sitting with the question of service. What is it to serve in these times of crisis? How do we give what we have—if indeed we have space to give—in the midst of these extraordinary times? My thoughts crystalized last […]
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Revealing the Masks we Wear
I was reading Brené Brown again the other morning as I was eating scrambled eggs with avocado. Brené (I don’t actually know her so as to be on a first name basis, but like to pretend I do) was talking about barriers to vulnerability. She was...
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The Beauty of Authentic Ignorance
I remember years ago, being in a room with a spiritual teacher. A friend and I had organized a workshop with him. He was a very wise man. Towards the end of our evening, a guy put up his hand to ask a question. “Terry, I wake up every morning, and...
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The Marketer Who Cried Wolf
There’s a very old story. A shepherd boy is bored tending his sheep, and so to amuse himself, he shouts ‘Wolf, Wolf!” And the villagers come running to save him, and discover it was a ruse. And he laughs. And then he does it again, and they still...
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5 Lessons from a Year of Writing
When people ask me what I do, I say “I’m a writer.” Though that declaration is relatively recent, my history of writing is not. I wrote my first poem at age 7. I posted it on facebook recently – it got more likes than my contemporary writing. I...
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Stepping into the Heart of Courage
Brene Brown said it best. “You can’t get to courage without walking through vulnerability.” If you go up to somebody who is in the midst of taking courageous action, and you ask “how do you feel?” they probably won’t say “I feel courageous”....
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Why Great Selling is like Great Kissing
Ever since I decided to build a coaching business last year, I’ve had to learn to sell. I’d avoided it before. I got good at marketing, so I could let my writing do the selling for me. But as a coach, I had to learn to be with another human being,...
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Speaking your Truth can be a Trap
I finally said it. “I don’t want you to coach me any more. I don’t want your advice. I'm done with it. I’m going to do it my way from now on. You don’t get to tell me how I should do it any more.” When it did come, I kind of blurted it out, the...
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The Power of Bending Time-Frames
You have the ability to change time. You can change it, because you can think about it, and change the frame. No other creature we know about can do this. Our ability to think in time is one of the super-powers we are given as human beings. A...
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The Death of the Trojan Horse Marketer
Business isn’t about you and your weird tastes. It’s about your customers. And if you want to be successful, you can’t talk about the far-out stuff that you happen to like. That just won’t fly. No, you must talk about handsome return on investment,...
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