How Do You Want It To Be

How Do You Want It To Be

Planning is important. We encourage our coaching clients and authors to do it. Getting clear on goals and objectives makes a huge difference. And raises the likelihood that you’ll achieve those goals and objectives. But life is not one thing. It’s the...
Start and See What Happens

Start and See What Happens

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. — Goethe It didn’t matter that I had sealed the seams.  Or that we had a tub floor.  Or that I had put a tarp over the site.  Water was everywhere. The...
The Secret Recipe

The Secret Recipe

Brené Brown, in her beautiful book The Gifts of Imperfection, has a wonderful exercise: List your “ingredients for joy and meaning,” she instructs. It’s a powerful exercise because, for most of us, the ingredients are pretty simple; and they don’t cost...
Achieve No Thing

Achieve No Thing

Achieve nothing.  Kind of like jumbo shrimp. As I stretched out for my run the other morning, I began to read an article in the Buddhist publication Tricycle on the spiritual pitfalls of multi-tasking. Tricycle is an excellent quarterly filled with...
Over and Done

Over and Done

Ok people, it’s done. Summer’s over. The vacation’s behind you. No more lazy lunches. No more casual Fridays. It’s time to put away the Dockers… and the swimmies. It’s time to get back to it. Fall is here. Time to get busy; time to get serious. No more leisure,...