Learning how to be a better listener, communicator, and conversationalist isn’t rocket science. The key is being curious and other-focused. If it’s so easy, why do most of us fail so miserably at it? Speaking to a young wife regarding her troubled marriage, she threw up her hands and said, “He never listens to me!” Read More
Posts by Shannon Parish
Professional Life Coach, Graphic Recorder, Creative Service Provider serving Authors, Speakers, Entrepreneurs and Nonprofits since 1997
Are You Coachable?
Coaching is for people who are tired of where they are, and they want to move forward in life. Coaching is invaluable in business, or in personal life. It’s nearly impossible to make the progress we want to make with only our minds, experiences, and self-defeating thoughts leading the way. Hiring a coach is an intelligent Read More
5 Keys to Reframing Your Understanding of Procrastination
Have you ever become frustrated with yourself because you had an important goal in mind and for some reason, you keep finding yourself procrastinating on reaching that goal? Unfortunately, procrastinating has gotten a seriously negative “bad rap”. To procrastinate simply means to put something off. There’s nothing negative OR positive about that action. It’s just Read More
There is So Much More to You Than What Meets the Eye
Curiosity and never-ending assumptions greeted you on the day that you were born. Those assumptions and opinions were the basis for the feedback you received as an individual … all filtered through someone else’s perceptions. You were noticed for how you responded to this new world, how you cried, how you studied people, how you Read More
Unexpected Gifts During Holiday Disasters and Stress
Noticing the events, activities, conversations, and experiences during the Holidays brings unexpected gifts. Perceptions determine the value of the gift received and determines the depth of the lessons we will receive. Facebook offers a unique bird’s-eye view of many people, from all walks of life, during the holidays. Recently I noticed that the posts which Read More