Peter's Progress
What’s important to me as a coach
Coaching gets a bad reputation due to all the incompetent, vapid, ineffective stuff out there. Here’s what’s important to me as a coach.
Life
Book launch! Launch party!
It’s book launch week! Tuesday, July 15th is the official publication date of Take Your Time Before Time Takes You (How to Make the Most of Every Day). It’s my eighth book as author or editor, not counting the multiple anthologies and periodicals that have published my stories, articles, and Read more
Uncategorized
You Are Here
An interesting life is a character-based story, not a plot-based story. You’re the main character, so act like it. Yesterday I was coaching a new writing client, a young writer who had gotten feedback that her idea for a new book was boring because it wasn’t “unique and different” enough. Read more
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Are you an expert or not?
Someone else’s greater capability does not invalidate your own. Just because someone else is better at a thing, or knows more about a thing, or has an advanced degree in a thing, doesn’t mean you suck at that thing. Yet that’s how many of us feel all the time. An Read more
Burnout
Social impact: the inspiration and exhaustion
I’m writing for social impact professionals today, but this is relevant for everyone who cares about something, or who wants to improve the world even just a little bit. I spent 20 years as a social impact program manager and executive, on both the funding and the impact side. I Read more
Life
How to quiet your high achiever guilt
Nearly every high achiever thinks they’re not getting enough done. That’s because every time they accomplish something worthwhile, that success comes at the expense of some other worthwhile thing. When you have 15 important things to do and enough time to do just 13 of them, the two that get Read more
Life
Take your time before time takes you
On Saturday, I accompanied my parents as they planted fresh geraniums at the graves of relatives. As I walked among the headstones, some of which were over 200 years old, I contemplated Americans’ complicated relationship with death. Living people spend a lot of time, money, energy, and emotion doing things Read more
Life
Say yes to yourself to achieve extreme balance
Extreme balance is how one of my hyper-achiever clients went from over-scheduled to a healthy, injury-free routine.
Leadership
How the nuance loop kills problem-solving
A nuance loop is when people argue about some irrelevant nuance instead of taking productive action. Here are five ways nuance loops form.
Courage
Leading with purpose—podcast interview
Leading with purpose is a key topic in Peter’s podcast appearance on the Beyond Your Why podcast. Listen here.