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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Dance of Life is an ongoing allowing of what is, in this moment, while feeling grateful for what is coming. The resistance to what is, is merely one step in the dance. It can stop us, when we choose to let it. Or, we can just remember that it is just one of …
Finding and Speaking Your Authentic Voice Are you a woman who would like to help to profoundly change the world? Then the Key is Finding and Speaking Your Authentic Voice: your own voice. Consider: Right now today: Of 190 heads of state, 9 are women. In the Corporate sector, 15 to 16% of the top positions …
These days, “coming out” is mostly taken to mean coming out of the closet and saying you are gay or Lesbian. There are so many more very scary ways to come out. Whatever your own personal “coming out” entails, it is always about one thing: Coming out as who you really are, claiming your powerful, …
We are all walking around in our own personal trance all the time. This thought is from Milton Erickson, arguably the greatest hypnotist who ever lived. All hypnosis is self-hypnosis. All your internal decisions are self-hypnosis. All of life is self-hypnosis. You have convinced yourself that things in life are a certain way. …