My Life In A Box
When was the last time you looked back on your life and reviewed the road you’ve traveled? Doing so may open the door to a new story and fresh awareness of important “pivot points” in your life.
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Guest Blog: Message to Fellow Parents – I Used To Be Dirt. Now I’m Beach Sand.
Guest Blogger Jo Ann Dearden shares important pivot points – good and bad – that have marked her relationship with her daughter. Many parents of teenagers and young adults will recognize this story.
Read More →VIDEO: How To Empower Yourself
Your thoughts can make or break you. What you think affects how you feel. Together, thoughts and feelings shape your life because they influence your behavior and determine what you see as possible. The process you use to identify or recognize opportunities becomes a closed loop – life-defining and self-reinforcing. Your imagination becomes more and more […]
Read More →VIDEO: Catastrophe or Catalyst?
While certain circumstances are hard to take, they can also take you to new places – places you would not have gone without catalysts that seem like catastrophes.
Read More →Your Thoughts Can Make Or Break You
What you think affects how you feel. Thoughts and feelings shape your life because they influence your behavior and determine what you see as possible choices. The process you use for identifying or recognizing opportunities becomes a closed loop – defining and self-reinforcing. Eventually, you lose sight of the fact that you ever had options. […]
Read More →Life Coach Lesson: Be the Hero or Heroine In Your Life Story
Researchers at Northwestern University hypothesize that highly generative adults — those who are committed to their own growth and that of future generations — tell stories of redemption about their lives. Redemption stories are the form used in fairy tales and enthralling literature. Generally, while moving through life merrily, the heroine or hero encounters unexpected hardships […]
Read More →Develop Your Story
Researchers at Northwestern University hypothesize that highly generative adults, those who are committed to their own growth and that of future generations, tell stories of redemption about their lives. Redemption stories are the form used in fairy tales and enthralling literature. Generally, while moving through life merrily, the heroine or hero encounters unexpected hardships […]
Read More →Do Labels Stop You From Taking Action?
Through labels we give things meaning, meaning that often determines how we see, use and interact with those things
Read More →Back to School and Back to Sports!
Parenting a competitive athlete is not easy, yet there are simple things parents can do to ensure a successful experience and create teachable moments – developing real life skills that will impact your child all the way through adulthood.
Read More →Do You Know What You Want?
Identify one situation in your life that you have been struggling with. Maybe you’re wondering about a job or career change, whether to stay in a relationship, how best to guide your children or what to do about a financial challenge. Whatever it is, write it down in just the way you’ve been thinking and talking about it, in your head and/or to others. Now, ask yourself, “How can I think and speak about this so that I’m focused on the outcome I really want – NOT what I don’t want or don’t have or am worried or frustrated about.
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