Author Archives: Cinnie Noble
Argue for Your Limitations
There’s a quote I really like by Richard Bach. It reads: “Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours.” I think this statement applies to any limitations we place on ourselves. That is, when we are convinced we are … Continue reading
Bringing Your Best Self to a Conflict
I like this quote by Doris Lessing from The Golden Notebook: “There’s only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.” Many of us consider doing our second best in situations … Continue reading
Crying Our Eyes Out
Recently a conflict management coaching client told me she had “cried her eyes out” about a dispute she is having with a co-worker. I have used this same expression myself when I’ve been extremely upset. On this occasion – hearing … Continue reading
Moving On After Conflict
The confusion and internal chaos that conflict can, at times, wreak on us accounts, in part, for the desire to move past it and get over it as soon as possible. Often we also want the other person to do … Continue reading
Telling the Truth in Conflict
Leo Tolstoy said in Tolstoy’s Diaries: “The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn’t gold.” One of the reasons I like this quote, when applied to conflict, … Continue reading
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