Has anyone else taken the road less travelled (on more than one occasion)?

Yes, I'm still working on my masters level of coaching. I've stopped and started the final chapter several times.

• At times, it was grief and loss that shifted my attention to time with my people that mattered more than an MCC level of coaching.
• At times, it was the determination to be present to the unwelcome and unexpected circumstances that put a pause on the last piece of my coaching submission work.
• At times, it was the sprints turned marathons of purposeful difference-making.
• At times, it was sanity and wisdom that begged me to take a break before I broke.
• At times, it was call of the forest, the ocean, and another road less travelled, less urgent but more important.

Also, the MCC is not a simple certification. And so here I am, back at it again. Soon, I’ll be posting Calendly bookings for very-low-fee coaching sessions to complete the final parts of this certification. Stay tuned or email [email protected] to be on a wait list.

The International Coaching Federation is a non-profit organization dedicated to professional coaching. ICF is an accrediting and credentialing body for both training programs and coaches recognized around the world. My coaches training began in 2005 - and here I am - still loving it, still believing in its power and potential to make a tangible, sustainable, successful impact in the individuals lives of humans and organizations everywhere.

Isn’t life grand? Also weird? Also wonderful?

Leading well has detours for all of us, yes?

Still attempting to 'lead well' in the messy middle.

With smiles.

Zoom out to zoom in.
Look ahead to look back.
Observe to lead yourself well, right now in ways that will matter in 20 years.

Decide who you will give your best life to (while you simultaneously earn an income, because hey - you need money and oxygen to live).

Lead yourself well today and tomorrow and the next day.

Grief and loss are messy.
Messy at work.
Messy at home.
Messy internally.
Messy externally.
All of it is messy.

"Sometimes the obsessives among us try to clean it up. We try to make everything neat and tidy and orderly. We make up rules and we try to enforce them. We create boundaries and timelines and schedules.

It doesn't work though.

The natural chaos of our grief is more powerful than any container we try to put it in. So we might as well let it be messy and trust there's meaning in the messiness."
(writings by Dr. Alan D. Wolfelt)

Normalize the messy leadership path of attending to your mourning and your grief journey.

Lead as well as you can, when you can, without judgement or blame or shame or hurry.

You have my best.

Our current worldview, perspectives and default behaviours have been shaped by our lived experience and origin stories.

In my opinion, it's a wise choice to pause the default thinking/being/doing to observe the context of our struggle and our drivenness (or lack of same).

It's a brave new world to talk about things other than weather, and tangibles and numbers and a myriad of other externals.

Lead yourself well in acknowledging and normalizing how you've been shaped to be the you, that you are right now.

Lead internally as well as externally.