Hmm.  Where’s that question coming from?  I’m going a little deep today.  Better than off the deep-end.  Some observations I felt led to share… my hope is it touches even just one reader…

In coaching many DCs in practice, and directing hundreds prior to opening their own practice, I’ve identified a “theme” that recurs, not often thankfully, but recurs nonetheless.

It has to do with a person, we’ll call him “Ralph”, who is faced with some problem that has yet to be overcome.  He has already figured out the reason for his failure, or so he is convinced… at least at first. 

What I mean is I believe Ralph truly is convinced about “why” something is as it is, why something won’t work, or why he hasn’t been able to overcome… but there comes a time in coaching that it becomes obvious, maybe to everyone but Ralph, that he is so hellbent on defending his “reasons”, he would rather be “right” than embrace a solution and move forward.