Ohmmmmmmm…As Easy as 1-2-3
Today is National Meditation Day. And it’s the last day of the month – the last day for me to write a blog post. Ironically, I’d already decided to write about meditation before I discovered it was National Meditation Day. Simply put, meditation is to focus your thoughts or engage in contemplation. Sometimes people meditate […]
Get off the “To-Do” Hamster Wheel
Raise your hand if you have random ‘to-do’ lists in various desk drawers dated from the past and half the items are not even crossed off. Raise your hand if you thought that lovely spiral notebook was just the thing to write down all your tasks and it now gathers dust on a shelf. Or, […]
A Little Something …
…to tide you over until the next blog post is published. March was a crazy month and it slipped by without me sitting at my desk much. Over the past few days I found some interesting tidbits to post to the Facebook page. If you haven’t checked out the page, feel free to do so […]
A Love Letter to Me
Dear Me, I love you. No, really, I. Love. You. I thought Valentine’s Day would be the perfect opportunity to tell you what I see in you. You have broken the chains of erroneous beliefs that never served you anyway. You no longer believe that you are unworthy of love. You no longer believe that […]
“Nevertheless She Persisted.”
What does it take to be a woman in space? Quite a lot of persistence, I imagine. Persistence comes from Latin meaning “continuing steadfastly.” And Dictionary.com adds: “…especially in spite of opposition, remonstrance, etc.” We persist in growing professionally, striving for the next level in our career. We persist in becoming better friends, better managers, […]
My Inner Critic
I ask a lot of my clients. I ask them to jump into the deep end of a murky pool of self-doubt and clean the water by quieting the voices that hold them back. I jump in with them and bring the water filters. Together we filter out the critical voices by identifying them when […]
Chasing Cars (in my case, trucks)
Two months ago this was me. Running after a truck that had no driver, through a wheat field for a mile or more. It’s kind of a long story as to why I chased a truck through a wheat field. And at the time it was SO NOT funny. As I look back on that […]
Power to the Poet
“A poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, then raise it to nourish your beautiful, parched, holy mouth.” ~Hafiz A novel idea: You can use your own poetry to heal internal wounds. And who knows, your poetry may help heal others’ wounds, too. I think the hardest part is quieting your inner […]
Running and a Journey
I went for a run on our road a couple weeks ago and shortly after my turn-around point I stopped and looked back. And then I looked forward. I run this road all the time. Since I have been trying to be more mindful, I began to see how this run resembled a journey. Starting […]
To Should or Not To Should?
This twist has very little to do with the classic “to be, or not to be” question. I wanted a good title to introduce my philosophy on “should.” And hopefully, I caught your attention. The word should is the root (at least one of the roots) of anxiety, depression, frustration, anger, self-flagellation, and ‘the blahs’, […]