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Getting Where You Want to Go – No Matter What!
At 16, I applied at McDonald’s with every other teenager in town, then waited for a call that never came. My mom told me to go in and ask. Then again. Then every day. What she taught me is the same thing I tell clients who are ready to give up on a goal.
What is Motivation?
Ruth told me she would work out three times that week. When she came back, she hadn’t done it once. Other things came up. As we talked, she found the real question underneath: where was she choosing from? Her answer changed how she followed through, and it might change yours.
Ordinary Hope vs Mature Hope
Coaches often say hope is not a strategy, and about one kind of hope, they're right. Reading Frank Ostaseski's The Five Invitations, I found a distinction that has stayed with me. Ordinary hope waits for something outside us to deliver. Mature hope asks something very different of us.