Author: Rachel Hanson

Coachable does not mean compliant. Some of my best athletes and most intense competitors toed the line of insubordination. Not often, and not for rebellion's sake. They had strong opinions and beliefs and voiced them. They cared deeply about winning, about the team, about excellence. This made our team better. Experience factored in as well. … Continue reading Coachable vs compliant

If you want to get out of dysfunction or a stuck state you must be willing to do some hard things. Are you willing to crank up the pain and orient toward your dream state? Crank up your pain by actually inspecting it rather than ignoring or numbing it. Ask yourself some hard questions - … Continue reading Pain and the dream

According to one body of research, we experience some sort of significant life event every 18 months. One interpretation - the only constant is change. Life is constantly changing, so make peace with it and get good at it. To not be good at change is to rail at one of the few inescapable facts … Continue reading Change

Turtling is a pretty normal human response to emotional pain. Lose a job, lose a marriage, lose a loved one - we tend to go more internal. Turtle up and put a little bit of a shell around us. A protective mechanism to give ourselves time to heal, shelter us from further pain at a … Continue reading Turtling

The Good Life, according to Martin Seligman's framework, is using our signatures strengths as frequently as possible in the realms of work, love, and parenting, with the aim of living a life filled with Authentic Happiness (the name of his book) and abundant gratification. That process must begin with knowing yourself and your signature strengths. … Continue reading The Good Life

My 8.5 month old son is crawling. Short distances distances at first, of course. He's been working at it for a couple weeks now, but the coordination of it seemed to elude him. Then boom. Last night it was like a switch flipped and he suddenly figured out the movement and put it all together. … Continue reading Crawling

Redwood trees, famous in part for how big and tall they grow, are not solo artists. In fact their roots are too shallow to sustain them - they'd topple over without support. Their roots are in fact a root system - intertwined with the roots of other Redwood trees. That system allows them to grow … Continue reading Roots

Before we can go forward with clarity, we start by looking back. Any client of ours starts with Discovery - an 81 question document that digs into who you are, what you believe, and what got you where you are now. If we're going to get more clarity on the direction you're headed, it's important … Continue reading Look back to go forward