Every November in my community I have a Gratitude Challenge- and here we begin again, another year in the books, another year has passed and delivered us here. What is gratitude? According to the dictionary it is the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation and to return kindness. The Gratitude Challenge 2025 is … Continued
How often are you dissatisfied with yourself? If never, keep reading to make yourself feel good that you are on the right track. If any more than never- keep reading to gather some thoughts and ideas to help you to see yourself more clearly. There are many reasons we can get down on ourselves- but … Continued
What’s in store for you? First, allow yourself to write and speak what you WANT in the next quarter, the last quarter of 2025. Leave aside all thoughts about why it can’t happen and let yourself believe. Right now, write down what you want between now and the end of the year. I find it … Continued
What a great month it has been! This is year four of my tradition and I am doing better each year. I went into the month having some broad ideas of what I wanted to experience. New and old places, experiences, people. I was open to breakthroughs and aha’s. I got out of my habitual … Continued
If we have too much of something, we just might have too little of something else. What prompted me- for the last week- to think about it was observing myself, family members, friends, and random people who I noticed all doing the same thing. We are all absorbed by what is on our phones- and … Continued
As we begin to wrap up 2024, I am doing a lot of reflecting on how my words of the year played out for me. Not just how they played out, but also how I played them out! I was looking at a recent Instagram post by Positively Present (follow them and also see the … Continued
I remember as kids that whenever any of us was bugging anyone else an adult would always say “tend to yourself!” Their way of saying “stop bothering them.” Right now, in this time and place might be a good time to think about tending to ourselves. I mean this in a couple of different ways. … Continued
This week’s blog post is very uncomplicated! I have written many times about the importance of getting outside. For us in the northeast US, summer time is a great time to get outside and to see so much beauty surrounding us. When you get outside and combine it with some kind of meditation, mindfulness or … Continued
In my coaching practice I use this great app called the CLI Values Cards (by Coaching and Leadership International)- my initial use was with the actual, real life cards and then moved to the app. My clients and I pick out a “random” word that comes into our session many times. Recognition is one of … Continued
Magical thinking has been described as that your thoughts, ideas, words and actions can influence the outcome of specific events in the material world. As with just about every kind of thinking- it can be a good and supportive thing, as well as a detrimental one. This shows up often when people find connections in … Continued