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How to Live Your Passion Without Giving Up Your Day Job
I spent many years (most of my adult life) without knowing or living my life passion. But over the last few years, I've found it and I'm living it. I can say without a doubt that finding and living your life passion makes a huge positive difference in your quality of life. I'm sure if you ... Continue Reading
A 5-Step Simple Plan for Dealing with Criticism
I have bristles. You probably have them too. They come out when someone says something to me that is critical or that I interpret as a criticism. When they are activated, these bristles set off a chain of internal feelings, thoughts, and physical symptoms. It's amazing how one comment can't set this complicated system in motion. All at once, ... Continue Reading
Is Travel Your Passion? 10 Steps to Stop Dreaming and Start Packing
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~St. Augustine Just about everyone lists travel as one of their passions in life. We're enamored with the idea of travel -- getting away, doing something fun and ... Continue Reading
Are You Addicted?
This is not a post about substance abuse. This is a post about the little things you do every day that pull you away from what you really want for yourself. It is about addiction to habits and behaviors that suck time away from us without adding much back to our lives or our souls. And often ... Continue Reading
Your Hidden Abilities and Why You Need to Find Them
When I was 40, I went through a phase during which I feared all of my creativity had been sapped. I was in the thick of child-rearing and running a home, with all that this time of life entails. Most of my time was spent driving kids to activities, volunteering at their schools, cleaning up messes, ... Continue Reading
The Habit Course Registration is Live!
If you’ve ever tried — and failed — to exercise regularly, eat healthier, wake earlier, meditate, become organized, beat procrastination … you’re like a lot of us. You struggle with creating new habits. It’s not easy, because most people don’t understand what causes habits to fail or the specific steps to creating sustainable habits. Leo Babauta, Katie ... Continue Reading
Free Webinar with Leo Babauta: The Life-Changing Power of Bad Habits
On Monday, April 23 at 7:00 pm EDT, Leo Babauta of Zen Habits will share some of the things he has learned about creating habits (read his story for some of the habits he has created and changed). He is hosting a free hour-long webinar called How I Used the Power of Bad Habits ... Continue Reading
Who’s Holding Your Feet to the Fire? The Power of Intentional Accountability
Before I became a coach, I didn't know much about coaching. I'd heard the term "life coach" tossed around, but I didn't understand why people needed to be coached in their lives. Why would I need someone else telling me to do what I already know I should be doing? (Now I know that coaching has nothing ... Continue Reading
If You Don’t Do It, Does That Mean You Don’t Want It?
Recently I found myself caught in an internal dialog about exercise. I've been avoiding exercise, and I told myself, "I must not really want to be as fit as I can be. Otherwise I would exercise. If I really wanted it badly enough, I'd do it." I've had that dialog with myself before, and at first ... Continue Reading
Make Your Vision a Reality with a Theme for the Month
In my previous post, I wrote about how essential it is to create a life vision for yourself and gave you an exercise for writing your own life vision. Often when I do this exercise with coaching clients, after they have written their vision, they begin to panic. They have just written this detailed vision for ... Continue Reading
The One Non-Negotiable Action You Must Take Before Creating Your Bold and Fearless Life
"A bold and fearless life" -- does that sound unattainable? Does it sound like the motto for a new age action hero? The idea of living a bold and fearless life might make you think you need special abilities or super powers. But this blog isn't about that kind of bold and fearless. I'm not here to inspire ... Continue Reading
The Powerful, Life-Changing Effects of Experimentation When Seeking Your Passion
"There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes." ~Buckminster Fuller Some of you may know my story of (finally) discovering my life passion -- or at least the one I'm loving right now! For those who don't, here's a synopsis: (There is a take-away for you at the end. ... Continue Reading
Your Most Valuable Coping Skills When Life Throws You a Curve Ball
A guest post by David Singer of Six Simple Rules Late last year we went through a challenging few weeks at home when our teenage daughter battled a significant, but fortunately temporary, illness. It was an experience that was extremely unnerving, to say the least. Just before this past Thanksgiving, my daughter Julie, ... Continue Reading
Control Freakonomics: The Hidden Side of Controlling People
You're driving down the highway, going with the flow of traffic, minding your own business. When you look in your rear-view mirror, you see a car ten car lengths behind you, darting between lanes, cutting it close between other vehicles, and quickly coming up on you. The next thing you know, he is right behind you, nose ... Continue Reading
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