Yes! And can I please visit you there? I connect with clients far and wide through the wonders of Zoom. The telephone works too.

It’s easy! (Much easier than making risotto.)

1. You book a call with me to talk about what’s on your mind (here).
2. Assuming you don’t think I’m horrible after that call, we set up our deep-dive session date.
3. You sign a coaching agreement and make a payment (or payment installment) before our session.
4. You complete your “Pre-Mortem” Questionnaire, which provides fodder for our session together.
5. We do it! In our deep-dive coaching session we debrief the Pre-Mortem document you’ve filled out, and get focused on your goals/ dreams/ objectives.
6. You go off and live your newly-focused life, and we both celebrate your success (which means I’ll raise a glass of something bubbly for you from afar).

Probably not! (Unless you need/ want that.)

I talk a lot about vitality– our wish to feel very much alive in the shadow of inevitable death– but I won’t talk about inundating ourselves with intense stimulation in an effort to remedy the blandness of boredom. Becoming thrill-seeking daredevils (wearing a YOLO t-shirt while rock climbing without a rope, for example) might be a tad extreme, whereas making subtle tweaks to breathe more oxygen into our lives (maybe wearing that YOLO t-shirt while taking perfectly safe rock climbing lessons) might be more sustainable for the rest of us.

Pressure abounds to LIVE LIFE TO ITS FULLEST (yes, in all caps) and for most of us those words emblazoned on mugs, doormats and tea cozies feels less like encouragement and more like a lecture that often ends in judgment. My work is meant to inspire even the smallest of tweaks to appreciate and get more out of our lives, not make us feel like we’re living wrong. Let’s consider this a discussion about what we could do, not what we should do. Life is the possibility of more possibility.

My encouragement to live “wide” lives full of vitality is so not meant to sound like an admonishment for living lives that seem ostensibly… vanilla. Some of us prefer vanilla ice cream and aren’t interested in two scoops of rocky road, and that’s perfectly acceptable (especially if it’s Ben and Jerry’s vanilla).

The encouragement here is to live life even more vitally and on purpose– relative to our own needs and preferences. After contemplating the diminishing time we have left, we might be inspired to have even more vanilla ice cream because it brings us such simple pleasure. We might feel inspired to become healthier versions of ourselves and consequently have less ice cream. Or we might be inspired to take our good old-fashioned vanilla and put a cherry on top.

Some people I work with want super-full calendars with social events galore and experiences up the wazoo (what is a wazoo, really?). Just as many want quieter lives with a more deliberate approach to the finer parts of life that bring them joy. I relate to wanting a curated life experience that’s not necessarily about the volume of more… more about the quality of more.

Always a great question.

Your coaching investment varies, depending on the program. Most of the programs I am doing with individuals now are deep-dive sessions of about two hours, and they start at $1,500.

Let’s talk about what’s right for you. Send me a note or give me a call. I’d love to talk with you.