Supporting You in Your Desire to Change
by Michael Feeley
This week’s Dailies — Upskilling – Deskilling – Skill Erosion — all point back to one root idea: cognitive offloading. It’s the simple act of letting something outside yourself take on a task your mind or hands used to do. And what I’ve learned writing this series is this: Offloading isn’t automatically good or bad. […]
by Michael Feeley
This week I’ve written about Upskilling and Deskilling — one hopeful, one a warning. Today’s daily sits beneath both: Skill Erosion. It’s the gradual loss of expertise, critical thinking, and foundational ability that happens when we stop practicing, or let a tool do the practicing for us. It starts small. Cognitive offloading, researchers call it. […]
by Michael Feeley
Yesterday I wrote about Upskilling, and it felt hopeful — learning, growing, becoming more capable. Today I want to name its opposite: Deskilling. It’s less comfortable to talk about, but just as important, because people are living it, and it’s good to name it. Deskilling is the process of making a job simpler. It requires […]
by Michael Feeley
I love a word that makes perfect sense the moment you meet it. Upskilling is one of those — the practice of learning new or more advanced skills to do your work better. Some call it leveling up. I call it staying alive to your own potential. As a career coach, I spend my days […]
by Michael Feeley
There are places I return to often, not because I need anything, but because they hold the whole world in them, and I never tire of looking and learning. They give me great pleasure and match my endless curiosity. Garden centers are one. I go exploring for plants and stay an hour. Every season rearranges […]
by Michael Feeley
At a brocante in France (flea market), I found a glass decanter with a broken top, reglued by someone. I could see the crack, but the faceting, the shape, the way light moved through the glass — it was magnificent anyway. I bought it and turned it into a vase. The break didn’t ruin it. […]
by Michael Feeley
Underneath the proving, there’s usually a fear. Not always spoken, sometimes not even fully known, but it’s there. The fear of being dismissed. Overlooked. Underestimated. Disrespected. Patronized. Quietly filed under done. Told, without anyone saying it out loud, that your best contribution is behind you. That fear is what makes proving necessary in the first […]
by Michael Feeley
There are two ways to prove something, and they live in different rooms of the heart. One is small and loud. It says, “I’ll show you.” It needs an audience, a rival, a scoreboard. It proves itself by making someone else smaller. Gloating dressed up as achievement. This kind of proving is a cage. It […]
by Michael Feeley
I’m thinking about coincidence because I experience it a lot. Two separate things, two separate events, arriving at the same moment. I don’t believe it’s a fluke or mere chance. I believe there’s meaning in it, and that meaning is something we can discover, if we’re paying attention. There’s something almost impossible to explain about […]
by Michael Feeley
Three weeks ago, a beautiful, cream-colored cat walked into our home like he owned it. No hesitation, no testing the waters. He simply arrived, settled into the sun, and stayed. We didn’t know whose cat he was or how long he’d been out on his own. What we knew was simpler: he was here, he […]
Michael has twenty years experience matching people with positions that allows them to reach their potential. Having worked with corporate decision makers, Michael has expertise in understanding organizational needs in multiple industries. He understands, experientially and intuitively, what gets people hired and what doesn’t. With a big heart and intellect to match, Michael Feeley is an authority on bringing the best out of business owners, executives, and entrepreneurs… he has such amazing energy, not to mention a terrific business background.
…as a trainer I watched Michael Feeley become a masterful coach, being adept at many coaching skills… he is supportive, motivational, action-oriented, open minded, authentic, confident and compassionate… such a delight to work with… fun, high-energy, intuitive, spontaneous!… I have observed him to be very inspirational, empowering, and encouraging clients to go to greater depths in their lives. He is a true ambassador of the profession… Michael has heart and soul along with the ability to deliver!
You, my friend, are the Real Deal.
Michael Feeley walks the walk and talks the talk. He is honest, authentic and incredibly generous in spirit. Michael’s deep commitment to service means his clients get his full attention and will benefit from his coaching skills, experience and wisdom.
Commitment and care are at the center of my coaching work.
Being fully present and useful to you is how I can best serve you because your desire to change and to move forward matters to me.
I care about your happiness and success. Your life – Your changes - That’s my focus and our alliance together.
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Alyssha Csük gives me such a special gift in allowing me to present 5 of her stunning and beautiful photographs on my website. Rust and slate are alive in her exceptional pictures. Alyssha celebrates something which is usually ignored, seen as ugly, corroding, deteriorating and wasting away.
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