This is the time of year to celebrate your VICTORIES from the previous year, decide what you want to get rid of and what you want to keep from the previous year and create your VISION for the New Year. If you don’t go through a process and gain clarity, you might get to the [...]

What will you experience if you live in the present?
What will you notice that you may be missing out on?
I walked my dog, Murphy, for only 30 minutes this morning and here’s what I experienced:

a field of wheat with an amazing fog all around it
a little white dog chasing a huge dear
a talk with a [...]

I recently had the wonderful opportunity to ‘ride along’ with a great manager and observe his managing/coaching skills.  I was SO impressed and inspired by what I saw.  He is such a great manager and coach.    What did I see that makes this a true statement?
Here’s what I observed:

He had total [...]

Are you happy?  How often do you experience joy in your life?
What causes you to be happy?  What causes you to feel joy?
What makes you laugh out loud?
 
According to dictionary.com, HAPPY is defined as:

Delighted, pleased or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person.
Characterized by or indicative of pleasure, [...]

Lately, I have been reading everything I can about leadership and it has made me start thinking about “what makes a great leader?”
Leadership shows up in every part of our lives.  It shows up in how we lead as an owner, a manager, a supervisor, an employee, a parent, a friend, a sibling.  Each one [...]

“Danielle was often verbally attacked by a number of people for her beliefs.  They were coming from a place of judgment–they were right and she was wrong.  She chose to look at this situation as an opportunity for growth and started asking herself what her beliefs were.  As we talked more, her voice grew stronger.  [...]

Lately, I have been thinking about what inspires me.  According to dictionary.com, inspire means “to fill with an animating, quickening or exalting influence.”
What fills you with animation?
What quickens you?
What influences you?
Here’s what inspires me:

when I hear of someone reach for a dream like when Sandra Brogdon started Role Model Magazine.  Her passion is to educate, [...]

Many times, I have been in my spinning class and I have thought…..this class is so much like life.  It’s amazing, but it is true.  There are similarities.  This is what my spinning class is like:

1.       I work hard because everybody in the class is working hard and it is inspiring.  I am motivated [...]

Is it Time for You to Take Your Life Back?
Life balance means elements of your life are equal and one thing is NOT heavier than the other OR life unbalance means elements of your life are NOT equal and something is heavier than the other.  One “thing” in your life might be tipping the scale [...]

Guilt.  It is something we have probably all felt at one time or another. 
What is it?  What causes it?  What can we do with it?
Wikipedia defines guilt as “a cognitive or emotional experience that occurs when a person realizes or believes—accurately or not—that he or she has violated a moral standard and bears significant [...]