Coaching Biz Tips

She's comin' round the mountain again

I recently read something about how women tend to pursue goals in a circular way, rather than a linear way, and when we try to force ourselves to adopt a linear approach, it can lead to frustration and even short-circuit our process.

The reason for this is apparently hard-wired into our brains, and has to do with the way that we process information; we tend to see things as being inter-connected, rather than focusing on "A" relating to "B" and "B" relating to "C".

So when it comes to setting goals, making plans and taking action, we go forward a little, then come back to connect with where we were, then we go out alittle farther and circle back, etc. Instead of a straight line from point "A" to point "Z", our path looks more like a spiderweb.

A tip for encouraging return visitors to your web site

I just learned a great lesson in how NOT to frustrate your customers -- and I got to learn it from the customer's perspective, which is good, because now I can prevent this same thing from happening to my own customers. Good for me & my customers -- not so good for the owner of the site I was trying to navigate around, though.

Here's what happened: