What is there to honor? My fascination with the unknown, the promise of emergence where the past meets the future right in front of us. For me, career cannot be shackled by the distinctions that divide work from whatever it’s divided from. Life is work. That I help wealthy families and those who hope to support them makes sense right now. It will only continue to make sense to the extent that it is an honoring of my holy ground of the unknown in human life and development.
I just finished James Gleick’s Chaos and am starting it again. This is more than a metaphor for families and their advisors. Messages of entropy are true — and not particularly useful.
The human has a SUPER EFFECTIVE adaption for protecting their rear. One so powerful that when properly deployed it makes humans one of the least vulnerable creatures on the planet to being attacked from behind.
It [sic] layman’s terms, it is known as “a buddy watching your six”.
Take away that adaptation by forcing the human to be alone, and you’ve nerfed the poor thing.
Calling him “vulnerable from behind” in this context is about as fair as claiming that a de-fanged a sabertooth cat was “created” with a weak bite, or that a de-finned Megalodon was “created” to be a poor swimmer.
Important, particularly in the independence-is-best western culture. Another quote comes to mind:
…they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness
But it’s better than drinkin’ alone
Billy Joel
We need each other. Maybe un-obviously, being our best selves allows us to be what we can be in support of each other’s journeys. And journeying together can help us be our best selves.
What’s a LifeSite™? Most websites are specialized. A LifeSite is about wholeness. Expect a mess. I don’t buy into the neat-and-tidy model of human experience. I’m more about growth and the wabi-sabi life that it produces.
Over time, I will create new (and update existing) ways that highlight specific threads in my life’s tapestry. What is interesting to you might not be readily available yet. Don’t sweat it. A LifeSite isn’t about having it all figured out for either of us. Contact me directly and we can talk about your interests. I prefer that anyway:
Here’s the post that introduces this incarnation of this site: Personal Coherence and Integration. It gives a little more background into the nature of a LifeSite as I currently understand it.
Lee just got off the phone. The waiting lists for subsidized housing have been shutdown. Ed Hanna is right. For those with disabilities, housing is the issue.
I’m going through the Prosperous Coach again. Now that I’m finally able to build this coaching practice, there’s a ton coming to the surface that is valuable to me. Steve Chandler and Rich Litvin are so wonderfully committed and challenging. I’m sharing here just to share; thinking out loud with my fingers. If you find any order in the following, I don’t know how it got there.
From Chapter 8: Loving the “hard” part
The second paragraph catches my eye. Rich’s model doesn’t quite fit for me:
From “The Prosperous Coach” by Steve Chandler and Rich Litvin
This one is closer:
From “The Prosperous Coach” by Steve Chandler and Rich Litvin
Here’s where my model is at the moment:
Rich’s second diagram certainly allows for this. Contrarianism-R’nt-Us. For me, it’s more about discovering a client. That discovery process doesn’t stop when some kind of coaching agreement is in place any more than it ends when we don’t interact as often. I’m interested in those around me because I’m interested in those around me. My discovering them is my discovering me. That we arrange ourselves in such a way to work more closely together is only a phase change in the process of human beings discovering one another and themselves. In other words, a declared relationship allows us to attend to that process more deliberately — and it is a modification instead of a metamorphosis. The miracles simply show up more quickly.
From Chapter 10: Cultivate deep foundations
To become highly successful as a coach, you need to master three disciplines Rich Litvin
For me, the three disciplines are not separate and, in some important ways, not distinct. They are overlapping facets of the same gem; they exist together or not at all.
To be more specific, creating clients is about helping someone discover currently unavailable resources. That’s the definition of coaching. An inability to connect with that which will help them take the next step is what’s in the way. “Creating Clients” is coaching. It’s a search for a human being — which, by the way, is the definition of deep inner work. I am searching for me as I am searching for them. All fear and excitement that rises in me is the fear and excitement rising within them. Them finding me is them finding themselves. Me finding them is me finding myself.
Just a word or two on “mastery” from Rich’s quote. For me, mastery is a journey. I’m building a coaching practice; I have no interest in a coaching factory.
From Chapter 43
But I promised myself that I was never going back to work in an organization. I was never again going to have a boss. Rich Litvin
For me, I’d be beyond happy to work in an organization which supported a boss who was seeing to my growth and well-being and the growth and well-being of my family.
Done For Now (5-Mar-2018 9:35am)
Not sure when I’ll be back to work through the rest of the book. I think you can subscribe to this post if you’re interested.
Just heard yesterday that Hailey’s been invited to play in the pit for a production of The Music Man. She says the music is difficult, copious, and doable. What a pro.
Of course I immediately returned to my high school stage crew experiences with the show. I ran spot, keeping Elisa Hartman well-lit. I enjoyed returning the favor ;).
We’ve decided to celebrate with Hailey by watching the 1962 film.
I learned the soundtrack from the 8-track we had in the car years before ever seeing the movie. Great memories.
I sure hope they record the performance. Break a leg, Hailey.
Katie’s corrective osteotomy of a couple of years ago may very well be bringing her to a heel cord lengthening procedure. Now that dorsiflexion is possible, it seems the tendon is inhibiting it. In other words, her Achilles tendon is becoming her Achilles heel. We will try a stretching brace first.
