The Map is Not the Territory A phrase first coined by Alfred Korzybski. Alfred worked in the general semantics field in the 1900s. What does this phrase mean though? It means that our maps and models of how the world works will only ever be an approximate or an estimation of the ‘actual’ world. Of…
I am new to life coaching, only if you go by the official title of an Executive Professional Life Coach. However, the concept is something I am quite familiar with, having been involved in ministry work for over 25 years, serving as a youth minister, missionary, and senior pastor, I have had several opportunities to…
Things are never as bad as or as good as they seem. I was at work one evening when I got the text. I worked two jobs at the time, during the day I worked as an ASL interpreter for an elementary school in the county just north of us and in the evenings I…
When did it become trendy to be offended and outraged by any and everything that is said or happens? You can be offended. It’s okay. When you’re offended, nothing happens to you. It’s not like you get some sort of disease, your house blows up, or your dog runs away. Friend: “What happened to your…
When you find yourself in a hole, it’s best to put down the shovel and stop digging. Many times I thought, “Maybe, if I could just dig a little faster, I could dig my way out.” It didn’t work and I just went deeper. One day I woke up to the reality of being about…