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Your unconscious mind: Make getting rid of bad Habits easy

Your unconscious mind: Make getting rid of bad Habits easy Your unconscious mind is AMAZING. Amazingly powerful, and amazingly willing to shift, when you learn how to work with it.   It saves you a lot of time and energy by keeping you doing things in a habitual manner, so you don't have to keep …

Art Class as Metaphor II: Find the square inch you love

What I wrote a couple of days ago about the power of pure positive feedback made me remember another related story I wanted to share with you, from another art class. When I was learning watercolors, I was part of a wonderful small group of women who were jumping in eagerly, even though much of …

Art Class as Metaphor I: The Power of Pure Positive Feedback

Would you like to absolutely make someone's day? Have you ever had someone compliment you, and then dull it with – "but…" or "except for…" Wow, that takes the wind out the compliment, doesn't it?   In business we're taught to use a "feedback sandwich" which says: tell three positive specific things, give one stretch, …

Where has my Inspiration gone and how do I get it BACK?!

Inspiration Where do I find it? How do I get it back when it’s gone AWOL? What are some strategies for those moments when I just plain NEED IT NOW and it’s not there?   I got this email from a client this morning, and it really spoke to me. I thought I'd answer her …

The Power of Your Intention

Do you want to magnify your results in any class you take, any project you take on, any conversation you engage in? Get crystal clear about your intention for doing whatever it is you do. 

Setting an intention is the most powerful way to laser-focus your attention, both consciously and unconsciously, so you achieve precisely …

How you do anything is how you do EVERYTHING

How I got caught – and served – by coaching’s most powerful premise. So – there I was in day three of the seminar, feeling good, happy with how I was showing up, interacting powerfully and pleasantly…when I got the rug pulled out from under me and I had to look at EVERYTHING differently. It …

How Tight is Your Grip?

Would you like to let life be easier? Here’s my invitation for you: Close your eyes and see your story as just what it is. A story. Everybody’s got one. Picture holding it out in front of you, like a book, and let it be just your story – not you. It’s not you, of course. It’s just a story that at this moment you are calling your story. How lightly can you hold it? How easy can you let it be to put it down, and choose a story that works better?

How Can a Vase Inspire Change?

Let me tell you a story about a woman who lived in a sweet little house, which was completely cluttered. There were piles of magazines and newspapers, and boxes of stuff that wouldn’t fit on shelves; it was actually hard to walk through her home without feeling like you were exploring an old dusty attic. …