self improvement
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
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
20 Top Bloggers Share Their Most Life-Altering Fearless Action
If there is a theme for this blog, it is about being bold in the face of fear. It is about taking practical actions that will move you forward, even when you are plagued with doubts and insecurity. It is about being fearless, which by my definition means doing things in spite of fear and thereby conquering ... Continue Reading
10 Reasons Why You Need to Buck the Status Quo
All of my life, I've been a good doobie. I was a rule follower. I was the compliant child. The pleaser. I grew up in a household with more than its fair share of turmoil. Everyone around me was breaking the rules and creating havoc. So it became my job to keep the peace. That was my role, reinforced ... Continue Reading
25 Action Steps for Transitioning to Your Life Passion
"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." ~Nelson Mandela In the previous two posts we talked about whether or not living your passion really matters and whether or not you can make a living from ... Continue Reading
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