Your Recipe for Success
I love homemade pie. Pie feels nourishing, wholesome and healthy with fresh fruit or pumpkin and a few other simple ingredients. Pie makes an excellent breakfast but I like it best served warm, with whipped [...]
“Vacation, all I ever wanted…”
(This blog post was updated and re-posted on August 4, 2026 as part of my 10 year coaching anniversary celebration. Check it out at this link!) "Vacation, had to get away." - Vacation by The Go-Go's [...]
The Elephant In Your In Box
E-mail is the “elephant in the room” of many coaching conversations. It is omnipresent and, when poorly managed, debilitating to productivity. Reviewing and responding to e-mail keeps us enormously busy but it takes a big [...]
Let Intention Be Your Guide
This year we dug into a basement remodeling project. First, we considered how we wanted to use the room. Since we would use it primarily for media (TV, movies and gaming), we realized two windows [...]
In Praise of Downshifting
“Are we there yet?” is the familiar backseat refrain of many a family car trip. Whether it is a quick trip to the store or long summer road trip, it is hard for kids to [...]
Walking the Talk in Retreats and in Life
When it comes to wellness, parenting and business planning, it always helps to walk your talk. In our family this plays out literally when we take our teenagers and our dog Cooper out on hikes. [...]
Retreats that Lead to Action!
I recently designed, planned and facilitated a nine attorney retreat for the Portland law firm, Richardson Wright LLP. We paid specific attention in planning in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, being careful to observe requirements [...]
Turn Down the Volume to Boost Productivity
Nigel: "You're a Ten on your guitar, where can you go from there? Where?" Marty: "I don't know." Nigel: "No where. Exactly. What we do is if we need that extra push over the cliff [...]
Change Habits with Intention and Awareness
When a coaching client struggles to make progress toward a goal, one of the first tools we apply is what I call "Awareness Work." As we become more aware of how things are, we can [...]
Who are tcb coaching clients?
It might surprise you to know that my average coaching client is a law firm partner with 11-20 years in practice. My coaching clients have four to 40 years of experience. Some might think that [...]