by Artie Isaac | Jan 11, 2015 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence, On Creativity
1. "You are a mess. You are crying and loud about it. Go to your room and don't come back until you're happy." These were the words of my mother, an all-loving, somewhat imperfect parent, when I was five years old. (Somewhat imperfect: that's all...
by Artie Isaac | Dec 26, 2014 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence
I find that the year-end holidays give me time to daydream about my intentions. And I know that my peer groups will assemble in January for a tradition: each person writes his or her goals on a giant roll of kraft paper on the wall. That roll gets...
by Artie Isaac | Aug 28, 2014 | Coaching Topics, New Competence
This phrase keeps wiggling through my head: "self care." It's a phrase that I had never heard before my Gestalt training during the past year. In my coaching training class, the faculty raised our awareness of the importance of taking care of ourselves,...
by Artie Isaac | Jul 30, 2014 | Coaching Topics, It happened, Living an engaged life, New Competence
I used to work for a contemporary Machiavelli. When someone was angry with him on the phone, he would wait for his chance to respond. Then, as he started to respond, he would tap his finger on the hook, aborting the call while he himself was speaking! ...
by Artie Isaac | Jul 29, 2014 | Living an engaged life, New Competence
I am watching the events of the day. What I see has a lot to do with where I'm sitting. I'm sitting in the lap of comfort, during a decade of life that is offering opportunity, delight, health, and shalom (a sense of completeness). I am surrounded by love,...
by Artie Isaac | Jul 20, 2014 | Living an engaged life, New Competence
I like to keep a List Of What I Don't Know. I learned this from Rob Emrich. The good news: the list never goes away. No sooner do I learn something — and scratch it off the list — then up rises one or two new questions. And there they go, onto...
