ICF Sacramento

How to Achieve Balance in your Life

Kathleen Barton — Sat, 25 May 2013 02:44:35 +0000

Do you feel burdened with too many responsibilities and not enough time for yourself? If so, you’re not alone. According to an Aon Consulting survey, 88% of employees say they have a hard time juggling work and life. Many of us have bought into the fallacy that we can do it all and have it [...]

Why It Is Important for Coaches to Experience Flow?

Janice Knight — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:49:11 +0000

By Barrett McBride

The concept of flow, pioneered by psychologist Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, is a concept that many coaches use use to help clients engage with the things that are most meaningful to them. But what about coaches’ experience of flow?

My recent doctoral research (in press) on how coaches experience the flow state found [...]

Unhappy at Work? It’s Not Always About Leaving.

Kathy Ogburn — Sun, 19 May 2013 17:40:07 +0000

By Kathy Ogburn

Career Coaches hear a lot of angst from clients who are unhappy at work. Frequently job dissatisfaction motivates flight for the relief of pain, be it emotional, mental, spiritual, physical. In their pain they develop a chant to help them survive each miserable day at work. The chant sounds like “I ‘gotta-get-outa-here! [...]

Is There a Secret to Business Success?

Janice Knight — Sat, 11 May 2013 22:24:58 +0000

You own a small business. You possess great skill and knowledge in your field. You work long hours. Shouldn’t you be more successful? One thing I’ve learned after coaching small business owners for years is that a business owner’s knowledge, skills and experience don’t necessarily result in business success. Why is that?

What Makes [...]

From Inspiration to Outcome

Wayne Manning — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:44:28 +0000

There are many ways to describe the act of bringing an idea from visionary reality into full bloom in physical reality. One of my favorite images comes from a workshop that we created at the Academy for Coaching Excellence a few years ago: “From Inspiration to Outcome.”

I like that way of framing what we [...]

What is Emotional Intelligence?

Alicia Marie — Fri, 03 May 2013 16:42:58 +0000

Emotional intelligence (referred to as EQ or EQI) is an often misunderstood and mis-used concept in both the business world and our culture. Emotional intelligence is the ability to relate to emotions in a healthy empowering way, your emotions and others.

Most of us do not understand our emotions and fall “victim” to thinking emotion [...]

What’s Your Story?

PennyPearl — Wed, 01 May 2013 16:06:10 +0000

IT’S YOUR PARTY AND YOU CAN CRY IF YOU WANT TO…

By Coach Penny Pearl

A brilliant coach once told me “Everyone has a story”.

This is a truth and we hear it many times from ourselves and others when we explain or rationalize a situation. In fact, lives can be designed [...]

WHEN LIFE DOESN’T GO ACCORDING TO PLAN . . . .

Mary Evangelista — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:03:22 +0000

By K. Mary Evangelista, coachmary4u@surewest.net

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. - John Lennon

I’ve always been a planner. I envision the future, break it down into steps, and make a plan and work hard to achieve my goal. It works for me. Meaning, my life has [...]

Effective Goal-Setting

Cami McLaren — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:02:13 +0000

By Cami McLaren, CPC

Hello and welcome to the ICF Sacramento coaches blog. In honor of International Coach Week, coming up May 20 – 26, whose purpose is largely to get the word out about coaching, I wanted to blog and share my favorite coaching tool. This tool will not be surprising or new to [...]

Brain Science Will Help You Change Your Habits

Janice Knight — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:01:36 +0000

As a professional coach and hypnotherapist, I am in the business of helping individuals and groups make the changes they desire. I also know that change is not easy to make for most people, even if they are consciously very committed to making the desired changes.

The reason for this is because of how [...]