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Your Best Behavior: Handling a Disappointment with Grace, Elegance & Style

Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino

Apr 28, 2019
5 min

Your Best Behavior: Handling a Disappointment with Grace, Elegance & Style

Is your best ever you being demonstrated by your behavior and actions? How do you handle a disappointment? How do those around you handle it? If you have children, what is the example you've set when faced with a disappointment? What have you taught them? How are they behaving when faced with a disappointing moment? Let's focus on sports with kids. Really the information below can translate to just about any upsetting situation or disappointment or general behavior. It also m

Life Coach Certification: Is There Any Value To Getting Certified?

Barbara Wainwright, CPC

Feb 27, 2019
3 min

Life Coach Certification: Is There Any Value To Getting Certified?

There is a difference between earning a certificate and earning a certification. A certificate usually results from an educational process. A Certification is a process that results in credentials. A certification has the following attributes: Results from an education and assessment process Typically requires some amount of professional experience and is awarded by a 3rd party, standard-setting organization Indicates mastery/competency as measured against a defensible set of

Should You Become a Life Coach?

Barbara Wainwright, CPC

Jan 12, 2019
2 min

Should You Become a Life Coach?

The most important thing it takes to be a great coach is an authentic passion to be a positive influence in helping individuals improve! There are many reasons a person may decide to become a coach. Here are some of the reasons coaching may be right for you: As a coach, you can work from anywhere in the world, including your home office. In fact, some coaches conduct their sessions on the beach! If you feel compelled to make a positive impact in all the lives you touch, coach

Father's Day Reflections - Making Each Day Father's Day

Jun 14, 2018
3 min

Father's Day Reflections - Making Each Day Father's Day

This Sunday June 17th families across the country will be celebrating Father’s Day, highlighting the important role that all father’s play in the lives of everyone. For most sons their father is someone they look up to and aspire to walk in his footsteps. For me personally, I have followed and continue to follow that path. Growing up I had a very strong relationship with my dad, he coached several of my youth sports, including rec basketball, as well as Little League, Babe Ru

Smart Money Tip #16 – Can Your Business Run With … or Without You?

Aug 10, 2017
3 min

Smart Money Tip #16 – Can Your Business Run With … or Without You?

The downside most business owners face is not being able to take a break. When working with a business owner, these are the questions I frequently ask: How confident are you about leaving your business for a few days, a week, a month? Do you end up glued to your computer or smart phone when you take a family vacation? What would it be like if your business could literally run without you? I am planning on traveling out west with my husband next year for several months while h

PSST… I need a favor.

Aug 9, 2017
4 min

PSST… I need a favor.

I can hardly believe it has been one year since I sold my home in Los Osos, CA and moved to Sacramento! I’m starting to feel settled in the Sacramento community. I can now get to Trader Joe’s without my GPS, and when someone says, “I’m in South Sac,” I actually know where they are! I’ve fallen in love with the rivers, the redwoods, the restaurants, and the people – and the quick access to San Jose, Napa, and San Francisco. The easy-to-navigate Sacramento airport gives me grea

Finding The Guru Within

May 3, 2017
6 min

Finding The Guru Within

About 3 years ago I thought I found my business guru, the person who was going to help me turn all my gifts and talents into the “6 figure business” I desired, while only working a few hours a day. She had a system. All I had to do was believe in myself enough to pay her money and follow her advice. If I believed and followed well enough, I too could have a beach house, a Tesla, and all the vacation time I wanted. I had a feeling in my stomach that wanted me to turn back, but

What I'm Into

Apr 26, 2017
4 min

What I'm Into

A question that I’m frequently asked is “How do you learn all this stuff?” That’s an easy answer. I read constantly. So today I’m going to share with you the just some of the authors that are stacked up on my desk, my bedside table, and in my computer bag; I’m going to let you in on “what I’m into” right now! Social Intelligence, The Revolutionary New Science of Human Relationships by Daniel Goleman. The first time I heard Daniel Goleman was on an NPR interview. I felt like e

Lay Down The Should Shovel

Apr 13, 2017
6 min

Lay Down The Should Shovel

Life. There is so much that we could be doing. My friend, mentor, and co-author Dr. Mary Kay Stenger says that we are human beings, but we turn ourselves into human doings. And much of the doing is driven by the “shoulds” we shovel onto ourselves and accept from others. Most of my work centers around people and workgroups who seek to achieve more, increase happiness and joy, create better solutions, and improve communication, motivation, and decision making. And I hear all th

Is Your Team Held Together With Crazy Glue?

Apr 5, 2017
8 min

Is Your Team Held Together With Crazy Glue?

For nearly 13 years I had a job that I could not leave. The work was satisfying. I was recognized for my effort. But the pay wasn’t great. In fact, the organization was struggling, and in the last half-dozen or so years of my employment there, my salary decreased each year. Every employee would work harder than the year before as we’d try to keep the doors open, and each year we’d receive word that we’d have to take a furlough week or two—essentially an unpaid vacation. The p

BRACE YOURSELF! Or not.

Sep 2, 2016
4 min

BRACE YOURSELF! Or not.

What do you think of when you hear those words? What happens in your body? If you are like me, you feel tension. Maybe your heart races a little. Or there is tightness in your chest, stomach, or spine. Are your eyes hard or soft? Perhaps you are glaring, instead of gazing gently. What about your teeth and jaw? I’m guessing they are clenched. Take a moment now and let go. Allow your shoulders to drop. Rest your tongue on the roof of your mouth to ope