Along with my own business, I also work part-time for Right Management helping individuals in job transition. We work on the stress of job loss, determining what they want next in their career, and then the nuts and bolts of landing that next perfect job. All of my candidates have…
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This is Why I Don’t Like Labels
Don’t you just hate it? When you state something as a fact, and then the fact changes? Here is a case in point. Throughout my book From Type A to Type Me: How to Stop “Doing” Life and Start Living It I talk about why not to label things and…
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Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
This Sunday we celebrated the one-year anniversary of our adventure. A three-week drive across country then down the Baja coast culminated with us landing in Cabo San Lucas Mexico Labor Day weekend in 2015. Yesterday we reminisced about our trip and how much has changed this year. We showed gratitude…
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Waste Not Want Not
I took a long hot shower. And I felt a little guilty. Cabo San Lucas has been on water rations for the past few months so getting a shower at all is a luxury. On my recent visit to the States, when I was able to have more than a…
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Waiting for Alignment
I spent hours one day writing a blog post . . . and it was awful. It was angry, bitter, and didn’t have a motivational point. But I felt I was “supposed” to write on the subject. I didn’t know why but I knew I was supposed to share about…
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Hooray for Data!
While Skyping with a client the other day, I could see her eyes roll. She had brought up an issue and I recommended that she put the data aside for a moment and check in with her gut. Her response was uncharacteristic eye roll. My client explain how she didn’t…
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My 200th Post!!!!!! (almost)
After spending time preparing my thoughts for this week’s momentous 200th post, I realized something. This is not my 200th post. To create a new series of classes, I was reviewing my posts for concepts, ideas, and stories to include. It was during this review that I realized a post…
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Words, Words, Words
Trying to learn a new language is difficult. A whole new vocabulary needs to be memorized. A different sentence structure is used. New verb conjugation must be absorbed. As I am trying to improve my Spanish comprehension and ability to speak, I noticed a few things which reflect on how…
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Feeling into the Future
Every month I check in with the PowerPath Forecast to get a pulse on the world. I don’t know how they do it, but the forecast has an uncanny knack at identifying larger themes happening to us all. This information helps the work I do with my clients as well…
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What Ever Happened to Happy?
March 22 was the International Day of Happiness sponsored by a positive psychology author and Project Happiness is a non-profit on a mission throughout the year to help people become happier. But what is happy and why do we need movements to help us be happy? Well, turn on the…