Jo Anne Dearden shares her very powerful story of unconditional love and forgiveness. I thank her for telling this very personal and deeply moving story of her relationship with her brother so that each of us can grow.
Read More →Despite the pace required to complete preparation and vacate our home, I experienced several truly lovely things…feelings and insights I’ll carry with me.
Read More →Through labels we give things meaning, meaning that often determines how we see, use and interact with those things
Read More →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 →We all have LIES in our lives – those Labels, Illusions, Excuses and Stories that dictate how we live, make decisions and interact with others. My dilemma focused on Excuses.
Read More →Reality is subjective, and most things we call facts are really fake facts. They’re Illusions, a personal story born out of a perspective at a given point in time and subject to change as points of reference change.
Read More →How many times do you do that: settle for less than what you want before you give your all and go for the full magilla – before you put your full energy and total attention into pursuit of your goal?
Read More →Perhaps more of us have a purpose and passion masquerading as a problem. Survey your life. What’s the gift in whatever it is you’re complaining about, annoyed about, angry about, resentful of, tired of? There, in that nagging problem, perhaps even scary problem, may lay the pathway to your purpose.
Read More →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.
Read More →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 →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 →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 →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 →What are the teachable moments in your life? Moments, when you are your best example of what not to do? Moments when you are your greatest teacher? Moments when you are stuck in a story, rooted to what happened in the past, willing to be denied what you truly need because pursuing it might make you uncomfortable, stuck in how it should be?
Read More →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 →“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 →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 →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 →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 →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.
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