“I have no idea what she wants! I’ve tried everything!” I hear such things often from clients (both husbands and wives) and they’re not usually fond of my response. “Everything? Really? Well then … tell me everything you’ve tried…” Usually I get the eye roll and get some half-baked answer like: “Well, you know ……
“If you think I need to follow that 80% positive to 20% negative thing you wrote about last week, I’m going to need a lot of duct tape for my mouth!” I knew he was not exaggerating, because I’d been seeing them, for about 3 or 4 months. Little did I know one comment in…
“This is the way my life is…it’s just my cross to bear.” “I was just born with this set of genes and we’re all fat …so, there’s no use in me trying to do anything about it.” “What does mind over matter mean anyway? Our brain cells come with us at birth … and that’s…
“So, I did most of that stuff about designing an extraordinary year, but mine’s not extraordinary yet…” “I got all the stuff you listed done, so how do I make sure I stay on track?” “If we lived on the same continent and I could work with you, what character changes would you encourage me…
“Things just got so busy through the holidays I just didn’t have time to design my extraordinary year. But I guess there’s always next year.“ I looked at him with what he called disgust, but actually it was great determination! My response: “I guess there’s always next week.“ He said he knew at that moment…