One of the hardest things we are ever asked to do in this life is to wait. We 'practice' patience. We 'lose' patience. We are 'im'patient. But we very rarely embrace patience. The pregnant pause between our present and desired future outcome, patience takes us out of a place of reactive fear and into a [...]
Category: Personal Growth
The Gift of the Struggle
In every darkness there is light, in every failure there are learnings, and in every struggle the gift of growth and invitation to journey on.
Living an Undivided Life
Recent years have fill filled with unearthing, rebirthing, and giving life to my own voice and dreams. Left brain (re)united with the right, it's been a season of learning to live an undivided life -- not just privately within my own heart and mind, but professionally, too -- allowing others to see and connect with my whole [...]
Busting Out of the Box
Before we can live outside of the lines, we have to bust out of the box. But how did we get in here, anyway? Sometimes we allow others to put us in a box -- through labels, titles, and credentials; by allowing other people's expectations to create (self) limiting beliefs and perceptions about who we [...]
The Great Sisterhood of Women
Prelude: This evening I attended a program in support of a new friend, Sharon Lachow-Blumberg, Founder of I'm Not Done Yet - a consulting, coaching and training firm focused on helping women create purpose, power, and profit in their lives. I was touched by the stories shared and by the degree of camaraderie Sharon and [...]
On the Question of Trust, Sharks, Users and Takers
So often I am reminded of a conversation I had with a long-term mentor of mine almost two years ago. "How do you discern who you can trust?" he asked. How indeed, I thought silently to myself. My answer then, as it remains, was that it was less important to know where others are coming [...]
How Do You Judge Thee?
According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, judgement is defined as: a proposition stating something believed or asserted; a formal utterance of an authoritative opinion; or the process of forming an opinion or evaluation by discerning and comparing. Capitalize the word and it takes on the power of Divine authority. Yes. We judge others, just as we 'exercise' [...]
Even in the Losing, We Still Win
Last night I slept hard and deep, perhaps for the first time in a very long while. My mind was calm, my heart still, my body surrendering to the comfort of my soft, downy pillows and blanket. I was centered and filled with peace. The irony is that the peace did not follow a perfect [...]
The Power of Thought
Too often we say to ourselves or others, "how could this happen to me/to us/to our company?" We believe we are powerless over forces and circumstances that seem to swirl about us as if in some conspiratorial way. In this powerlessness, we cast ourselves as victims in our own drama, the villain always being someone [...]
Our Own Best Advice
Why is it that we so often have wisdom for others, but ignore our own advice when it comes to ourselves? We offer a sympathetic ear, weigh the person's dilemma with a heady dose of objectivity - our friend's best interests always at heart, and present morsels of insights...bits of wisdom or advice that might [...]
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