Sorry I've been gone so long

You've been on my mind, and I've been thinking about so many things. Right now, my family is going through some rough terrain, but keeping in mind that things can always be worse, and having a sense of gratitude for our strengths, our happiness in spite of rough times, our ability to pull together is making the way a bit lighter.

The only inevitability in life is change. How do you approach the changes in your life?  With fear and loathing? Or standing on the shoulders of your successes? Each forward step we take in life, in time, in space, involves change from the time and place before.  How have you learned to deal with that change?

I am an appreciative inquiry coach and I can help you, with the use of a simple blueprint, embrace change in the most positive ways, in ways that will enhance everything you do by building on what is already working well for you. 

Do you reinvent the wheel for every new endeavor? No, of course you don’t.  Think of all the changes you have made in your life without even thinking about them: the change from baby to toddler.  You didn’t dwell on the fact that you fell down after you took your first step, did you?  You built on that successful experience until walking was an automatic activity. How about when you changed from pre-school to Kindergarten? New school, new teacher, maybe new kids—what did you do?  You took what you knew that worked and built on it.  You said Hi to the kid on the playground, and you played the games you already know how to play and perhaps used some of the skills you had learned at other games to get good at the new ones. College was pretty different from high school, but again, you used some of the skills you learned there to fit in, to pass tests, to party. Think of all the life changes you have made, single to married, couple to parent, perhaps employee to entrepreneur or even to job hunter.

Some of those changes encourage us to accentuate the positive, like using what you already know from experience to solidify a promotion, and some of those changes make us think of ourselves as losers, like a job loss. 

By using the four step process of Appreciative Inquiry, you can positively influence the way your organization does business, and the way your family relates to each other. If you would like the widgets you manufacture to do better in the marketplace, there is an approach you can use to get you there. If you would like your family to wee life from a happier perspective, there are ways you can do that.  Stick with me and I will help.

I am promising here and now to help you learn how to make change more successful.  I will be publishing a minimum of once a week, so watch for me and learn how to tackle life in a new way.