Welcome to 2013! Do you expect helping  your clients to overcome the number 13 superstition this year? Do you yourself have some trepidations about having to live with number 13 for a whole year ahead?

In a nation that has omitted 13th floors from buildings and 13th rows from airplanes, and even has a word for this fear (“triskaidekaphobia”), facing this fear is unavoidable now — whether we want it or not. We can’t invite our secretary, like President Franklin D. Roosevelt used to do, to make sure that there won’t ever be “thirteen” guests. This number is here to stay with us for a whole year. Every day when we look at the calendar or type up a date, it’ll end in number 13. Ironically, I just checked my LinkedIn group, “ICF Coach Mentors and Mentees”, and 13 people joined the group on the first day of this New Year.

The meaning of the number 13 is both about  endings and new beginnings. That makes sense, since every beginning denotes the end of something else.  So, to the new beginnings and a wonderful year ahead!

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