by Molly Gordon | Jan 29, 2018 | Coaching, Resilience, Three Principles, Video, Wisdom
Here’s my “impossible project” for Michael Neill’s Creating the Impossible 2018 program. In the next 90 days I will make the Three Principles the explicit foundation for coaching in the International Coach Federation (ICF) tradition. It will be...
by Molly Gordon | Jan 13, 2018 | Emotional intelligence, local, Resilience
Resilience: Riding the Roller Coaster of Life with Ease I’m delighted to announce that next month I’m teaching an affordable, local, in-person course in the principles that give rise to resilience in all aspects of life and work. This is not another stress...
by Molly Gordon | Oct 31, 2017 | Emotional intelligence, Resilience, Responsibility, Three Principles, Video, Wisdom
Some years ago I made a horrible mistake. (And yes, I’ve made tons of mistakes since then; this is just the one that comes to mind in the moment.) I was president of a local arts organization, and in that role I was making the rounds of galleries during an Arts...
by Molly Gordon | Oct 13, 2017 | Ambition, Emotional intelligence, Happiness, Productivity, Resilience, Thought, Three Principles, Video, Wisdom
Most of us live in the illusion that it’s difficult to have a quiet mind if you are really busy. We have grown accustomed to the idea that busy-mindedness is a natural consequence of being busy. There is an implicit assumption that some amount of stress,...
by Molly Gordon | Oct 5, 2017 | Ambition, Confidence, Emotional intelligence, Flow, Mindfulness, Productivity, Resilience, Success, Thought, Time, Video
Overwhelm is optional—really If a surfer riding the crest of a wave obsesses about the last six waves or the next six waves, she’s certain to wipe out. Yet human beings do this all the time when we (yes, me too!) innocently generate overwhelm. The illusion of...
by Molly Gordon | Sep 28, 2017 | Flow, Happiness, Meaning, Resilience, Thought, Video, Wisdom
“Things happen for a reason.” You’ve heard it. I’ve heard it. Maybe you’ve said it; I certainly have. And today I realized that it’s not all that helpful. Maybe things happen for a reason; maybe they don’t. As my mentor George...
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