I recently conducted a workshop to assist others in creating documents to name who they choose to make healthcare and financial decisions for them if they are unable to make them for themselves. The idea was to fill out a worksheet during the workshop, turn it in immediately, and I would create the documents for [...]
Education is fantastic, amazing, healthy, and wise. But it can also be a barrier between who you are now and who you want to be. Education can compliment what we are doing, or you might decide you just need a little more education before you make the change to seek to make. Choose wisely. Education [...]
It is quite amazing how much STUFF we can accumulate, at least those of us fortunate to be reasonably well off and live in the United States or another first-world economy. I recently served as a middle-man to take baby-items from one recent mother to a soon-to-be mother; two friends who don't know eachother. I [...]
Happiness leads to better health outcomes. Working on projects using our highest strengths puts us in a flow state which leads to happiness. How can you do your 'must do's' using more of your strengths? *check out this video for more depth on this.
What is your relationship to giving? What does that even mean to you? We can donate our time. We can donate our money. We can help family, friends, neighbors, our local nonprofit working in our city, on a state level, a national level, or a global level. We can support individuals, or organizations helping on [...]
How do we choose the people we work with? What comes into play both consciously and unconsciously? When are you comfortable with your decision? And will you turn to someone else if you decide you don't like your chosen person? Apparently, when people hire a coach, understanding the process is more important than the coaches [...]
Gretchen Rubin and Elizabeth Craft talk often on their podcast Happier about a 'season of sacrifice'. As a tv writer, Elizabeth's work is very seasonal. Not in a traditional way, but there are times when she is working insane hours on a project, and then times that are much slower. She has found it helpful [...]
I worry incessantly that people will think my motivations are bad. This is not because they are and I am trying to hide the fact. Quite the opposite. It is particularly when I'm doing something good that I worry people will think I have some nefarious intent. In reality, I suspect that no one cares [...]
As I got sidetracked, scrolling through social media while deciding how to promote a new offering, I saw people out there taking action. I realized that if I didn't spend so much time pondering how to get it right, it could be done and then I would have a lot more done over time. In [...]
It was last fall, and my husband and I had returned to our college for our 15th reunion. The first reunion we have attended. I have read shockingly little given my age, but I have loved books for quite sometime. (I was no bookworm as a child, but in my later years fell in love [...]
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