How often do you find yourself not really seeing other people? In the marvelous book, Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box (Arbinger Institute), the authors contrast leadership behaviors and attitudes that are “inside the box” or “outside the box.” Your mission, should you choose to accept it…

This is not the post I originally intended to write today.

I had planned to talk about progress and strength and patience. Since I’m feeling none of those things today, it would be disingenuous to claim to be grounded in them.

Instead, I experienced a meltdown. Not a breakdown, which I see as falling apart but in distinguishable pieces that can be put back together again. No, this meltdown included becoming completely unglued and spilling out in a blurry, confused mess.

(That’s never happened to you, has it? No, I didn’t think so… )

When I decided to enroll in a coach training program, it took a while for a certain reality to fully sink in: I was going back to school. While it’s not school in the traditional sense, it pushes the same buttons. The biggest button, lit up and flashing wildly, is the “good student” button.