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.
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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 →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 →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 →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 →5 Unique Valentine’s Day Gifts For The One You Love
Valentine’s Day has become rote for many – particularly if you’ve been together for a good while. Here are five ways to put your heart back into Valentine’s Day with unique and special gifts that create lasting memories, new traditions, and some even save you money.
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 →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 →Do You Reflect Before You Make A Resolution?
…before you set about working on your 2011 New Year’s Resolutions, stop for a moment. Reflect on your experience of 2010 and acknowledge what you accomplished.
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.
Read More →Guest Blog: A 13-Year-Old’s Journey from Cancer to Grace
Melinda Marchiano is an astounding young lady who made the conscious choice not to succumb to the LIES™ that bring so many down when faced with a devastating cancer diagnosis. We are grateful that she chose to share her story of how she kept cancer’s LIES from limiting her during a time when no one would have blamed her for taking a major time out.
Read More →“LIES That Limit: Uncover the Truth of Who You Really Are” Is Now Available!
I’m delighted to share great news with you. LIES That Limit: Uncover the Truth of Who You Really Are is now available for purchase at LiesThatLimit.com and on Amazon! That’s right! LIES That Limit is not only a blog, it’s a book that I hope you and millions of others will buy, read and use […]
Read More →5 Tips for Handling Family Dysfunction At Holiday Gatherings
Any time we’re back in a familiar setting – like celebrating holidays with our families or in-laws – we tend to react in familiar ways. We have a well-rehearsed, ingrained pattern of behavior we engage in, and an equally well-honed set of responses to those around us. When the pattern is constructive, respectful and loving, […]
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