An old idea with a new twist — We are Coaching Beyond the Fences a nonprofit dedicated to changing the rate of recidivism internationally by offering Life Coach Training, Re-Entry Coaching, Mentorship, Scholarship, and career opportunities to formerly incarcerated people. Never been arrested? Read on. Discover who you want to be During airplane safety announcements you are always told that you should put on…

I’m not as worried about Ukraine as I was. I’m not making any predictions, tho. — For some reason, probably related to his megalomania problem, Putin thought Ukraine would be a pushover. He’d blitzkrieg right in there and snap it up. Zelinski is a comedian, a joke himself. He’d roll over in 24 hours. At least that’s how it all worked in Putin’s mind. He wants…

Grateful to whom? — I always hated all the nonsense about gratitude because “gratitude” is an activity you don’t do alone. You are grateful to someone or something. I knew it was a way — deliberately or unconsciously — to smuggle in the supernatural. You are grateful to God, if Christian, Ganesh, if Hindu…

Deciding what to do next — Morality #1: Do that which pleases God. Morality #2: Do that which results in human flourishing.

And all the others — When I watched the video of Derick Chauvin lynching George Floyd, I kept getting flashbacks to Rodney King lying in the street with cops surrounding him, beating him, trying to kill him. Given last summer we were in the middle of a pandemic, I didn’t expect the reaction of the…

Self-management and the Coaching Mindset — The life coaching mindset starts out in self-consciousness and ends in self-awareness. Getting from one state to the other takes some time and isn’t ever complete. Most people who learn life coaching start out self-conscious. While we are usually comfortable having conversations with people, a life coaching conversation has a…

Written by Jim Crow to preserve the brutality of Jim Crow — There is a script we have been following for about a century and a half. Act I: White people treat black people worse than they would treat animals. Act II: Black people object. Act III: White people tell each other that these are rioters and slaughter as many as they…

If you ignore reality, it will eat you alive. — I was in my favorite boutique dispensary the other day. A couple of young men worked behind the counter. They were lovely — friendly, informative, polite. They laughed at my lame jokes. After everything was bagged up and I was ready to go I had to talk about something that…

The police need to scrub their departments — Recently in a wealthy St. Louis district, a couple pointed guns at BLM protesters strolling by on the sidewalk. It was more than a little hair-raising to watch rather ordinary Americans pointing guns at a bunch of other ordinary Americans who were too close and in too large numbers. They…