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Note to my Younger Self

To My Younger self: My good friend Debbie LaChusa has a birthday today, and as part of her birthday musings, she posed the question: What would I like to go back and tell my younger self? It felt so good to answer this question I decided to post my reply here, and then to ask …

Reset Your World

Can you imagine a world that has reset itself where people stop competing with eachother and instead come to the table open and curious, really listening to one another, listening to their own inner wisdom, and taking action based on what they hear and feel?   A world where hands are outstretched, and solutions that truly sustain …

The Power of Intention: Achieving a Long-Held Dream

 I spent the entire month of June, 2008 in a sketchy airport hotel at LAX.   I was immersed in my NLP training – that stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Learning the ins and outs of how the unconscious mind works, how much power it has over your moment-by-moment choices and life long results…and how to …

How can I get better at receiving?

Giving and receiving   Don’t you feel great, when you have the opportunity to help someone, and they graciously accept and receive your help? Contrast that to how it feels when you offer help and they turn you down, reject your offer, or take your help begrudgingly.   The whole giving/receiving cycle is pretty messed up, because …

Jumpstart YOUR Value

Who adds value to your life? I am in the process of moving, so I have been fixing up my house to put it on the market. I noticed, in the process, that I got pretty tweaked by the number of people I was talking with who said something to the effect of:  "You don't …

What is True Personal Freedom?

July 4, 2013 American Independence Day     What is True Personal freedom?     True Personal Freedom is being willing and able to show up completely as yourself, who you really are.   Which to me means: Being free of any thoughts that would have me deny who I really am, at a soul level. …

Are you tired of worrying about what others think?

My Dance with Competence   I am a competent person. And I would have said that I feel pretty much at peace with my basic competence.   Except for one thing: A few years back, when I was beginning to notice things with more awareness, I noticed a pattern that wasn’t serving me.   I …

Good enough? For Whom?

Every result you create in your life flows from the answer to this question. It’s a question that you probably don’t know you are asking, and which you are answering unconsciously all the time: Is it good enough? Is it good enough for ME? Do I trust my own ability to know what is good …

From EMERGENCY to EMERGENCE

Will your Emergency to lead to Emergence?   I love it when I see a deeper meaning in words, and this morning’s addition to the elegance and truth in words was priceless.   I finally heard the word EMERGENCY in its true light. An emergency is when things get so bad that they just cannot …

Living a fully connected and engaged life

What is a fully Connected and Engaged life?   Eight years ago I had a moment when I looked at my life and decided to make it different. I was deeply frustrated by what was happening – or more to the point, what was NOT happening. I knew I was “phoning it in” as they …