Book-End Your Days Many people spent time at the end of the year to start reflecting on what they will choose to do and start creating in their lives for the New Year. I did, too. It's always time well spent. You don't need lots of time OR the New Year to create clarity throughout
For many of us, when we hear that word, we start think negatively. We will often think about a regrettable, pitiful person that is continually down on their "luck" and labeled a "failure." Many of us personalize that word and use it to describe permanent conditions around a person. Not true ... As I
Collecting Wounded Birds I was doing some of my personal development listening today while cleaning up papers in my office when I heard that term again: Collecting Wounded Birds I'd heard it several times before but I was in a different place with my own awareness today. And I got a new insight today that
Do the SCARY thing If you're not already making this a regular habit, it's time. And not just because it's the month of October, Halloween and scary movie premiers. Your High Performance Life gets built day by day BUT only if you're growing as a person consistently. Let me be clear here ... Doing the
Juggling Too Much? I sure have been guilty of this in the past. And sometimes it's easier to justify it to ourselves by saying we're JUST juggling things that are noble, important and a priority. If EVERYTHING is a priority, then NOTHING is a priority. Tough Love. It's true that we have so many things
We hear people talking about it. I also know that seeing specific examples of it can change things and help remind us we need to work on our own Mind-Set. Exercise AND Mind-Set affect health - here's just one recent study that details how the added layer of mind-set made the same set of physical
You already know this to be true ... when working on your goals, you tend to be your own worst enemy. No need to beat yourself up but keep the reminders around that you know will help you get back on track once you trip yourself up. This is reminder for me - the Recovering Perfectionist,
The safe life or the caged life is not about busting through - it's all about KEEPING things as much the same as possible, controlling as much as you can and living from a place of fear, not growth. We've all spent time there. Some stay in this Caged Life for nearly their entire lives.
You've attacked your fitness and nutrition plan with consistent action. You've lost a large amount of weight already. You've created amazing results so far. Now, you're worried both about overtraining and having the weight come back. And you're worried constantly that you're not doing enough. Now, what do you do?!?! First, you need to reflect
The 1st time I read this in a book, I thought it was a cute phrase but it did not mean much to me. But once I was truly on my path of self-awareness and personal development, it finally started to make sense. And once I started really living it with for a few days,
