The Simplicity of a Walk

“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.” Henry David Thoreau Taking a walk***- it has become the top item on my list to do each day. It started out as exercise and has now become my exercise, thinking time, breather, restore session, stress reducer and creative idea cultivator. … Continued

Make Rejoicing an Everyday Thing

If you’ve been following along with me the past few months, you most likely heard me talk about, or read something I have written about celebrating. I realized I had not been sharing wins with the world at large, or even with my closest friends. Celebration is acknowledging something significant or happy in a social … Continued

Get Determined!

Here we are, already at the end of January. How’s the year going for you? Have you got the feel for the “tone” of your year yet? (BTW-Did you pick a word or theme for you year? Just checking in on that!) Did you notice that the calendar has changed to 2021, some things have … Continued

Countdown 21 to 2021: Day 2 Best Last Day 2020

As I got up this morning I kept thinking as I did each thing.. This is the last time I will make my bed in 2020. This is the last time I will do my morning brush teeth, wash up routine in 2020. This is the last cycle class I will take in 2020. You … Continued

Countdown 21 to 2021: Day 3 FOPO

One of my favorite new acronyms to think about (like FOMO and JOMO) is FOPO. Fear Of People’s Opinions. It’s one of the things that has held me back in my life, personally, more than anything else. (and believe me, there are other things! But this is the biggie!) Whether it is our own family … Continued

Count Down 21 to 2021: Day 4 Don’t Wait, Illuminate

One of the things we tend to do as human beings is to put things off until Monday, or next month, or once the new year begins. Don’t wait! Start today!! At least in some small ways. It is not all or nothing. What could you do over the next few days leading up to … Continued

Countdown 21 to 2021: Day 5 Liminal Space

Liminal space. This is something I am going to delve into much more deeply in the future and I think it is the perfect time to bring it up now. I first heard the term from author Rob Bell on his podcast The Robcast and I have been intrigued ever since. Liminal space is exactly where we are … Continued

Countdown 21 to 2021: Day 9 Specialize In You

What one or two things do you need to be really good at?  What couple of things do you want to be good at? Where are you spending time getting better at something that doesn’t hold great interest for you? Sometimes we try to be everything to everyone and even for ourselves. AND there are … Continued

Countdown 21 to 2021: Day 11 Kindness is a Strength

Yesterday I had the privilege to present a lunch and learn with the topic of Kindness as a character strength to a corporate client. All agreed, it was the perfect topic for right now. (All that aside, I appreciate a companies that value their employees enough to offer conversations like this and I am fortunate … Continued

Countdown 21 to 2021: Day 13 I Don’t Know

I have shared this with several of you lately: My most used phrase from my real estate days… “I don’t know, let me find out.”  Someone wise, I wish I could remember who, stressed to me as a very young Realtor (20 years old) to feel confident to say I don’t know. And I took … Continued