A Food Fight In A Nursing Home?
Lessons about limiting LIES are everywhere. Here’s a story about being attached to a definition – a labels that defines what a thing is for.
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It’s Never Too Late to Forgive
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 →Hurricane Irene’s Legacy of Peace
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 →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 →Guest Blog: For My Girls, To Be or Not To Be “Alike.” That is The Question.
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 →The Difference Between Truth And Fake Fact
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 →Do You Settle Before You Even Try?
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 →What Uplifts You?
Do you get enough beauty and pleasures to satisfy your soul’s longing? Could you boost your happiness quotient by adding just one thing each day that makes you feel good – one thing that adds more beauty and pleasure to your life? Remember, the happier you are, the healthier and more productive you are.
Read More →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 →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 →Are You “Stuck In A Story” That No Longer Serves You?
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 →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 →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.
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