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5 Powerful Reflection Questions

Reflection, the process of exploring and examining ourselves, our perspectives, our attributes, our experiences, our actions and...

Beyond, an Awkward Place to Be

I find myself not belonging in all the familiar places. I’ve stretched beyond the boundaries of my family of origin, beyond my...

5 Principles of Self-Love

In February our world loves to focus on romantic love, when self-love seems to be the one thing that would impact our relationships, our...

Your Life is Driven by Something

Everyone’s life is driven by something. Thomas Carlyle said, “The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.” None of us want...

You Can't Just Do It!

I’m caught in a cycle. Every morning I tell myself I’m going to accomplish THE THING. You know the one, the thing that I’ve been pushing...

4 New Habits for Positive Self-Talk

50,000 times a day we talk to ourselves, according to researchers. Sadly, 80% of it is negative — I shouldn’t have said that . . . She...

3 Necessities to Uncover the Next Step

NASCAR pit crews are seldom the focus of a race. They refuel, change tires, make mechanical adjustments as quickly as possible and get...

Feel Defeated by Change?

Junior High seemed daunting, too much, too different, too foreign. I didn’t want to go. I drilled my sister, a year ahead of me in...

3 Steps to Becoming

When we find ourselves stuck and wondering what we need to do with our lives, careers, businesses, ideas, we might be asking the wrong...

Hurry, Hurry, Hurry Get More Points

The big lie: You have to have more points. This is the message we are always hearing, you need more — more money, more help, more time....

4 Questions to Overcome Obstacles

I met with a coach today who took me through her annual preparation for the new year. There were six steps, third step — dreaming, fourth...

Stop the Production!

We live in a thoroughly edited and completely Photoshopped world. Everything we see and hear leaves us comparing ourselves to a cinema...

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