January 25th is Burns Night in Scotland.  Robert Burns was a Scottish poet, and you will know him as the author of Auld Lang Syne, but I think of him as the champion of self-awareness because of these lines, from the poem To a louse: O wad some Power the giftie gie us To [...]

Good evening, I hope you are well and warm.  I feel like the weather has played a miserable trick on me, with the recent 60 degrees dropping back down and making today's 22 seem colder than last week's -7.  So it's definitely still January-not just because of the weather, but because New Year's resolutions [...]

Hi, I hope you're doing well and staying warm! This letter is a continuation of the last Coaching Letter, #20, about goals.  In this one, I'm just going to focus on the difference between performance and learning goals.  Of all the things I know that are really useful and important, this one ranks way [...]