New Ventures Start with Dreaming
Whatever you are focused on is what you bring into your life. So how do you make the shift to actually do something different? The first step and a very fun one is to start dreaming. Answering the question of 'what do I really want' is a challenge for many people. But...
Remove Resistance To Achieve What You Want
The other night I woke up with a pit at the bottom of my stomach. I couldn’t decipher what was causing it, but there was no way I was going back to sleep until I figured out. Instead of sleep, I decided to get up and start writing, just like I did a year ago when I...
Get a Happiness Habit
What is a happiness habit? It's exactly what it sounds like. It's when you are in the habit of being happy. You wake up happy, you work happy, you play happy, you eat happy, you go to bed happy. You get into a pattern where happy is the only way you know how to be....
Life is about the Journey
There are two steps to getting what you want. First, know what you want. Once you know what that is, you just need to prepare yourself to receive it. This is the hardest part. We become impatient. As we wait, we constantly measure our progress and often ignore all the...
Being A Planner/Scheduler Of Your Life Is A Terrible Way To Live
Opportunity Cost. It's a basic business term defined by The New Oxford American Dictionary as "the loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen.” When you live your life with everything planned out to the Nth degree, you close off...
Perfect Doesn’t Belong In Your Vocabulary
In the past, I often thought about how challenging life is. It was often accompanied by a thought comparing it to what a ‘perfect' life would look like. Countless experiences I had in the past were ‘imperfect' because I had a particular way I would view the...
Where Can You Find the Truth?
These days we are bombarded with opinions. Everyone has a point of view and a driving need to share it. More than share it, they need to convince you. There are seem to be only two sides to every issue. One side is right. The other side is wrong. Not just wrong, but...
How to Let Go of Fear, Guilt and Anger
Feelings of fear, guilt, and anger can overwhelm us. We get into these dark places where all we want to do is cower and hide or yell and scream. These powerful feelings can help us in more ways than you know. All of these - and other feelings - are messages to us that...
Don’t Dwell!
When I put a post out here for you to read, I don’t like to tell you to do something. Recently I spent time at Purdue talking to lots of people about my experiences since graduation, and I found myself sharing a couple of things I wouldn’t recommend doing. Dwelling on...
So Many Leadership Opportunities for Women!
Leadership has many forms. There is positional leadership, situational leadership, charismatic leadership and many others. Google the word, and you will find not only definitions but all kinds of resources available to leaders. Skill building, mentoring, speaking...
What are your Micro-Choices?
Micro-choices are the quick, almost automatic reactions we have to what we encounter throughout the day. We make micro-choices all the time, and they have a huge impact on our lives. Our micro-choices set us off on a cycle of thoughts, beliefs, and feelings. This...
How Do Beliefs Impact Your Choices?
Do you know how much beliefs affect your life? Let me give you an example I discovered many years ago. I had a belief about people who didn’t use the English language correctly. The realization came to me completely out of the blue, and it directly impacted my job. I...
A Simple Tool to Worry Less and Be Happier
Would you like to worry less? It's hard to be happy when you worry. One way to become happier is to worry less. How can you do that? We have a handy little tool called the Happiness Matrix that can help. When I was a management consultant, I learned that almost any...
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