Are You Afraid to Try Something New?
When faced with the opportunity to try something new – what reaction do you have?
• Dread?
• Fear?
• Start making excuses?
• Run for the hills?
If you find that you get a sinking feeling in your stomach, your breath shortens, and you generally ti...
Why You Are Called to Live a Radical Life
Why are you here? By here I mean on this planet, in this body, living your one precious life at this time in history? Do you know?
It’s OK if you can’t articulate it, but on some level you know. This I can guarantee you. And you are meant to live y...
How to Avoid Unintended Consequences from Incomplete Communications
I was watching the recent on-air interview reconciliation between Oprah and Iyanla Vanzant (a former protégé of Oprah’s who vanished from the TV scene eleven years ago) and have to say I was shocked. Shocked but not surprised that even two powerful, succ...
Do You Hate Your Body?
What is your relationship with your body?
Is it a deep, sensual loving romance?
Or
A despicable, miserable, rotten, hateful one?
Or
Maybe somewhere in between?
If it’s anything less than a love affair, you might be missing out on a powe...
Are You In A Panic?
Are You In a Panic?
Do you find yourself breathless and in a panic over whatever is happening for you right now?
Stressed out in the middle of a career transition?
Desperately grasping for new clients?
You find yourself feeling a sense of u...
Thinking About It
“Thinking About It” is Another Way of Saying I Choose More of the Same
Last week after I spoke to a group of professional woman about three key elements to creating a new, more confident you, one member of the audience said to me, “I really loved your ...
Live Like You Don’t Need the Money
When someone says the "M" word ("money"), what sort of reaction do you have? If you’re like most people with a pulse that are drawing breath, you likely have some sort of charge about it. After all we have given money SO much power over us that when we ...
Are You a Prisoner of Your Own Mind?
What is your experience in your own head like? Do you have a series of tapes playing over and over (and they aren’t saying the nicest, most productive things!)? Does it feel like a band of monkeys (aka “Monkey Mind”) are swinging from the trees in an in...
Talk is Cheap
Have you ever caught yourself saying the same thing over and over? Things like:
I’d like to change careers or start a business... BUT...
* I don’t know what I should do; I only know its not this...
* I’m afraid I won’t be able to make enough m...
Are You Letting Others Tell You Who You Should Be?
I recently had the opportunity to speak with a large audience of individuals in the midst of career transition. These folks ranged from people who desperately needed a job because they had been out of work for a long time to people pro-actively seeking t...
Second-Guessing Yourself: Costing You Confidence & Money
Have you ever needed to make a decision and then just when you thought you knew what you wanted to do, doubted yourself? In the "I want to do x,y,z...well, I don’t know maybe I shouldn’t? What if it’s the wrong choice? Maybe I don’t deserve it?" sort of ...
Do You Have An Appetite For Your Life?
I admit it, when I read the book Eat, Pray, Love I loved it. Last weekend I went to see the movie Eat, Pray, Love, and I loved that too, but in a different way. Frankly I could leave it at that and say I've been deeply moved by both these pieces of creat...
3 Keys to a Holiday Season that Feels Right
With Hanukkah wrapping up and the Christmas/New Year’s holiday picking up steam, its time for some straight talk about how to do the season well. It’s common this time of year to wonder, how can I do this in a way that feels right? There are so many dec...
Are You Trying To Figure It All Out?
When you think of that next step for yourself in your life or career/business how often do you say to yourself, "I just wish I could figure this out!"? Do you ask this question and then launch into a bunch of mental gymnastics of working really hard to f...
Sometimes You Need To Retreat To Move Forward
In this hard charging, never stop world we live in it can seem like if you stop to catch your breath for even a second, you’ll be run over by the tide of people trying to get ahead of you. Trampled like the crowds in Pamplona during the running of the bu...

