When Unsure, Take the Next Logical Step Last year, I spent a lot of time encouraging you to chart a new course and get out of your comfort zone—learn to live the life you imagined and were born to do, big and small things, to move you down the path of life that would bring joy in big and small ways. Life is short, and I firmly believe that you have to take the reins and get going, or you’ll miss out on some great opportunities, or someone else will take your space, perhaps while you’re sitting around waiting. You […]
So What Is Your Super Power
So What Is Your Super Power Now that New Year’s resolutions are behind us, let’s consider something we can do that could be the key to an amazing year, if not for ourselves, then for others who may need us. I wrote in an earlier post about choosing a word to define the different areas of your life that you would like to change. The one I hear most often is that many people say they want to enjoy life to the fullest, so consider a word that serves as your anchor, reminding you of your commitment to enjoying life. […]
Walking Through The Rooms of Our Lives
Walking Through The Rooms of Our Lives – Not Looking for Flaws, but for Potential “We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential.” – Ellen Goodman. I like the idea that this year, we’ll look forward to not the work to be done or cracks to be patched. No, we’re done looking for flaws; let’s look for potential. And isn’t that […]
A Word After A Word After A Word is Power
“A word after a word after a word is power.” – Margaret Atwood I have really come to believe that what you say to yourself about yourself is vitally important. I’m not sure I can prove it scientifically, but it just seems to me if you are not careful with the words you use when thinking about your skills, abilities, and knowledge base, you will undo years of education, years of building yourself up, and years of acceptance of the praise of others who see a spark of brightness in you. With the new year upon us, I will have […]
She Stood in the Storm
She Stood in the Storm, and When the Wind Did Not Blow Her Way, She Adjusted Her Sails Let me be the first to welcome you to the New Year. I am excited because I fully believe this is going to be a good year, despite all the predictions, politics, and pundits… I believe in the message that I shared about Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year…so with this in mind, at this time in the lull between the holidays, it is a good time to survey your life and if […]
Why You Gotta Be So Mean?
I will never forgot the tears she shed when she told me about her weekend at her grandmother’s home for the holidays. “Get your big fat a__ in here” those are the words a client of mine recently heard from her grandmother. I can only assume the grandmother didn’t measure the damage of her words. I’m sure grandma thought she was being funny. She wasn’t. Weeks later my client can repeat that stinging phrase that hurt to the bone and the worst part is now every time she looks in the mirror, she will hear those words from the person […]