I was on a hike with a friend yesterday. She was telling me about a choice she had made that was right for her… she had quit her high paying job. Her husband, on the other hand, was spiraling out under the stress of being the sole provider for the family. Please know that, Read More
I’m like you. I don’t always follow through. I like to read about new ways to think. I love to hear stories about what is working for everyone on the self-development front. I love smart ideas and clever insights. I collect coaching tools like charms on a bracelet. But I don’t always take action., Read More
As you may remember from an earlier email I sent, we are renovating our kitchen. The cabinets twisted and skewed as the house settled over the last 100 years, so when beautiful custom lower cabinets and quartzite became available from a TV show my husband was working on, the kitchen renovation began. Yes, it, Read More
Being in alignment is the sweet spot… Doing the kind of work that you are good at, you enjoy, and people want to pay you for.Building relationships with people you respect and who respect you.Living a life with few regrets.Experiencing the spiritual part of your life that matches your personal beliefs. Being in alignment, Read More
Our society is set up to reward doing. What awards have you won?How many non-profits have you started?How many toys do you own?How many degrees do you have? And yet, we experience rewards (and the rest of life) through feelings. Where is the disconnect? Hell if I know. Maybe we think that we can, Read More
Suleika Jaouad’s cancer has returned for the third time. I’m sure that prompts people to give all sorts of well-intentioned advice. “Live every day like it’s your last.” According to Suleika, this is terrible advice. “It’s exhausting to live every day like it’s your last. To carpe diem the crap out of everything. It, Read More
I am sharing a peek behind the curtain at what a coach is looking for when they coach you. Yes, there are a lot of things, but secretly we are looking for patterns. How do you treat yourself when you run into a rough patch?What do you think about the people around you? Patterns… good, Read More
You probably have some “deal friends”. These friendships are transactional. You may work with your deal friends or do business with them. They are fun, but if there is no “deal” you wouldn’t be friends. As Harvard professor, Arthur Brooks, says, “Real friends are useless.” So true.That tickles me. I plan on going out, Read More
Want to stop your emotional pain? Byron Katie put it best… “There are only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours, and God’s. Whose business is it if an earthquake happens? God’s business. Whose business is it if your neighbor down the street has an ugly lawn? Your neighbor’s business. Whose business, Read More
Before I was trained as a coach, I had never heard of koans. A koan is a Zen Buddhist term for a riddle that has no answer. They are designed to disrupt our logical path of thinking, so we get out of our own way (or become more enlightened). The most well-known is probably,, Read More