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Who Are You?
I faced a critical moment in my life when I was 20 years old. I am not afraid to tell this story because I feel I was given a gift to share with others.
In my resistance to be the person everyone expected me to be, I ran down a dark path of drug abuse that landed me in jail. I could have fallen deeper, feeling I had failed those
Is Your Goal Just A Number?
Is your goal a number or the impact you make, or both? This story will help you discover why you work so hard.
I Feel Naked
The closer I get to my book launch, the more I feel paralyzed to do anything. I can write the books and do the marketing, but I can't control the response. Have you ever felt so vulnerable? What did you do?
10 Bits of Wisdom from don Miguel and do...
I had the opportunity to sit at the feet of the teacher and author of The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz and his incredibly wise son, don Jose, last week. I have pages of notes that I feel I can review over and over as I work to see the world from their eyes. Here are a few of the moments of truth they shared with us.
Raise your hand for happiness
I just received a rejection notice. I applied to be on the board of a professional association. They turned me down.
Part of me was disappointed, embarrassed, angry, and even worried. The rest of me was utterly relieved. Woo hoo!
While interviewing women for my book, Wander Women, I had a very accomplished woman tell me, "All my life I was taught to raise my hand. Now I'm finally questioning what I'm
What part of you do you keep in exile?
Being overly sensitive to how people judge us isn’t always a sign of low self-esteem; confident women also worry about impressions. At what price-what parts of ourselves do we keep in exile?
Stopping the leak of power
There was a great scene in Grey's Anatomy last night that I thought characterized the changes many women are experiencing. With no real guidance, and under the threat of losing love, we are starting to say "NO" to giving ourselves away, including our power, our energy, and our passion. Yet, this isn't easy.
The scene focused on Christina Yang telling her boyfriend about her near-marriage experience. She described her relationship as
What’s your cause?
Instead of writing goals this year, can you define your cause? Goals create actions which might have an effect. Causes create effects, making the goals that arise more fluid, adaptable and meaningful.
St. Thomas Aquinas wrote:
I have a cause.
We need those, don't we?
Otherwise the darkness and the cold gets in
and everything starts to
ache.
My soul has a purpose, it is
to love.
If I
do not fulfill
my heart's vocation,
I suffer.
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What inside your heart is asking
Five tips for detaching from judgment
Judgment takes up real estate in your brain. Your working memory has limited capacity. When you are judging others or yourself, you are limiting your creativity. You are also decreasing your sense of humor and fun.
When you negatively judge someone, you can barely hear what they have to say.
Tip #1 Take in and release your breath slowly to clear your mind.
You might find the person who is annoying you isn’t
Really…women are less happy?
There has been a lot of press around the research that prompted Marcus Buckingham's latest book, Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women do Differently. The studies declare women to be less happier than they were 40 years ago.
Really, less happy than my mother? I don't think so.
I believe the research is flawed in that it uses happiness as a general rating without breaking down the
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