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Take Charge of Your Thoughts
Our brains can be one of our biggest assets in helping us achieve amazing feats and seemingly impossible goals…or they can be our biggest liability in keeping us small, low and stuck. I’m not sure when I became more aware of my thoughts, but it’s been a huge revelation for me in changing my life…
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Finding Your Focus for 2014
I like the opportunity of a new year. It is ripe for fresh starts, and the turn of the calendar reminds me of a clean slate to begin anew. Perhaps it’s because I work in the self-help arena, but I have been bombarded with marketing messages to join new programs that promise to fix me.…
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Changing Habits
Sometimes we make changes to our habits because we have to: we are faced with something so big that it’s obvious that we cannot continue to do things the way we’ve always done them. I’ve seen people make huge changes when faced with a serious diagnosis, an impending new addition to the family, or a…
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What I Learned from Making Fire
Last weekend, I had the opportunity to participate in a nature based coaching seminar led by my friends and colleagues Michael Trotta and Margaret Webb. I learned how to make my own rope, how to tune into my other senses when I’m blindfolded, where I still have work to do on stepping into and owning…
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Living in the Moment
In the past couple months, my whole life has been turned upside down. Some might say everything fell apart; it could be that it’s falling together. I have become very aware that none of it is in my control, other than how I choose to react to it. I’ve been utilizing my coaching skills and…
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Feeling My Way Through
Grief is a sneaky little f*&ker. It comes up again just when you thought you were done with it. Last night I gobbled half a bag of cheddar popcorn before recognizing that I was indeed stuffing something, and it wasn’t just the popcorn. Oh, hello, grief. It’s you again. Damn. While my logical (read: ridiculous)…
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Are You Fighting Against the Current?
As a kid (and okay, I may have even done this as an adult, too), I liked to try to race against the escalators. If no one was around, I’d try to go up the down escalator, sensing the challenge and increasing my speed to see if I could make it to the top. The…
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I’m not Fine (And You Might Not Be Either)
“Hi! How are you?” “I’m fine. And you?” “Fine. Nice seeing you!” How many times do we have this type of conversation with people in our lives? It is appallingly shallow and so common and pervasive that it seems normal. But does that make it right? I recently learned this quote from Thomas Payne: “A…
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Mondayitis
From Urban Dictionary: Call it what you want, but “Mondayitis” is a feeling of weariness, sadness, apathy and general distress that many individuals feel when starting the Monday morning work week. A couple months ago, I was talking to a dear friend who was having a rough time. She doesn’t feel like her job is…
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Healing
When I wrote last week’s blog post Let Go, I thought I was writing from a place of being through the worst of my own “Let Go’s.” After all, I reasoned to myself, I’ve had more than my share of losses this year. Unfortunately, I was wrong, there was more. I got hit by another…