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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Who’s Calling the Shots In Your Life?
For many of us, it feels like someone else is in the driver’s seat of our lives. Our jobs. Our families. Our previous commitments that seem to have taken on lives of their own.
Read More →Failure Is the New Success: 8 Ways to Embrace Failure
So what does this mean to you and your success path? If you’re a “play it safe” kind of person, how can you learn to love failure? How can we dilusional safe seekers become dream-fulfilling risk takers?
Read More →Financial Fitness Mid-Year Check Up
This past January, Financial Advisor Steven Girard, President of Northstar Financial Companies, Inc., gave the LIES That Limit™ community 9 outstanding, easy-to-follow tips for getting into financial shape. It was the start of the new year when everyone’s mind was squarely on how they were going to improve their life in 2011! As we approach the 6-month mark, how are you doing?
Read More →What Progress Have You Made With Your 2011 Plans and Resolution?
Today, take some time to reflect on your 2011 journey to date. Give attention to the road you’ve travelled this year and affirm all you’ve done to serve your sense of purpose and to support the success of others.
Read More →Want to Bridge the Generation Gap? Here’s One Way.
Given the quality of interaction I experienced during “The Reading Circle,” I was reminded of how beneficial cross-generational settings and conversations were for me. I believe they can help more of us feel less alone and more connected; to be seen and accepted by others. They can help us develop and refine skills – reading, presentation and coaching skills. Coming together for pleasurable, constructive reasons gives us an opportunity to learn about and affirm each other’s interests.
Read More →Guest Blog: Are You Enslaved by What If?
“What if.” Two words that make every one of us put the breaks on. “What if” is one of the LIES that limit.
Read More →How Do You Respond To Change?
Individuals and organizations wrestle with the Illusion – one of the LIES That Limit™ – that things are not supposed to change. Attachment to this false idea is time- and energy-consuming. It often leads to a drop in productivity and effectiveness.
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.
Read More →Guest Blog: It’s Time to Get Out of Your Own Way
How often do you set up mental barriers on your road to success? If you live in the woulda, coulda, shoulda world of excuses, chances are you are getting in your own way. Chances also are that you are self-destructing.
Read More →Teens: Learning To Talk With Them, Not To Them
We say kids are hard to talk to. Maybe that’s our problem. We talk to them instead of talking with them. Talking with involves sharing your point of view, listening to the other person and validating their point of view. Validating their perspective doesn’t mean you agree or disagree with what they’re saying, it just means that you acknowledge and understand their perspective, and see it as valid.
Read More →Celebrating the Strength of Meaningful Connection This Women’s History Month
This year, I’m going to celebrate Women’s History Month by nourishing myself – feeding my soul. I’m going to give myself the luxury of what I experienced during the Women’s Leadership Collaborative by creating at least three opportunities to celebrate a woman I know or meet. I’m going to allow the time and space for us to share our stories and unhurriedly explore what’s going beneath our headlines and subtitles.
Read More →Even in Prison, Nelson Mandela was Free. Are You?
As we continue to honor Black History Month – a celebration of liberation, freedom and achievement – how do you define liberty and freedom? Are they the same or different? In this country, we all have liberty – basic legal rights – but fewer of us are really free.
Read More →Live As If Every Day Is Valentine’s Day
To celebrate love and honor our tender hearts primarily, one a day a year is not enough. It creates the illusion that love is scarce and perpetuates the story that a certain kind of love – romantic love – is better, more desirable, than other kinds of love.
Read More →Know That You Are Free: What Harriet Tubman Is Still Teaching Us Today
Harriet Tubman was not defined by who others thought she was or what society said she was. She decided who she was. She didn’t let circumstances or other people’s fears define her life. She decided who she was and she decided that she was free.
Read More →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 →Guest Blog: 9 Steps To Financial Fitness in 2011
As many of us do when facing a new year, we make resolutions to better our lives in some manner. As it seems many of these resolutions revolve around getting in shape I thought, in the spirit shedding some excess, I’d discuss some strategies for losing a couple of notches on your financial belt.
Read More →5 Tips for Overcoming the LIES™ That Make You Break Your New Year’s Resolution
Year after year, many people resolve to fix the same old problem. Why? What gets in the way of achieving goals, satisfying your resolution and making lasting change? Labels, Illusions, Excuses and Stories or LIES™ – limiting thoughts, beliefs and feelings that determine the range of choices you believe you have.
Read More →How to Avoid Burning Out This Holiday Season
Our activity level inevitably ramps up when the holiday season arrives. Yet, you can still enjoy the spirit of the season to the fullest without burning the Christmas lights at both ends. Your ideas of what you should and shouldn’t do, what you must do, who you can’t say “No” to will lead you down […]
Read More →Guest Blog: Overcoming Good Little Girl Syndrome
Speaker-Author-Empowerment Coach Phyllis Avery shares her story of self-discovery that followed the devastating loss of her father. She uses her life lesson to help others stay true to themselves.
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