Is Your Attitude Affecting Your Results?

You need a positive attitude to achieve positive results.

I’ve been thinking a lot about attitude and how it affects our ability to achieve our goals and realize our dreams. In fact, mindset affects just about everything–including how your day turn out. Your attitude can determine each and every moment of your life in a multitude of ways. Think about the saying, “I woke [...]

Do You Feel the Push to Repair Even a Small Bit of the World?

If you want to affect change in the world, start changing yourself.

For the last three months I worked with 12 aspiring authors who wanted to write and publish books that would inspire readers to create change in their lives, in organizations or in the world. All of them felt it was their soul purpose to “author change.” In the publishing industry, we definitely feel books can [...]

Moving from Narrow Spaces Toward Freedom and Full Expression

Can you bring your full self to this life?

Last night my husband I hosted two other couples for a Passover seder. In the traditional Jewish tradition, we spent the evening “reliving” the Israelites journey from slavery to freedom. At our table, the theme of our discussions revolved around the passage through the Red Sea. The Hebrew name for Egypt, Mitzrayim, means “narrow place,” [...]

The Problem with Being Put on a Pedestal

Do you want to be placed on a pedestal?

There’s a problem with pedestals. When someone puts you on one, inevitably you fall off. But it’s the person who puts you there that gets hurt. I remember many years ago when I went to a week-long conference led by one of my favorite spiritual teachers. I had read every one of his books. I [...]

When Your Kids Spread Their Wings and Leave the Nest Empty

It's good to let your birds leave the nest

This past year or two I’ve watched my children spread their wings and really begin to fly. In a few cases, they are still flapping them around a bit and wondering if they can really handle a long distance flight, if they’ve got the skill, the endurance, the character. But every day they fly just [...]

Is Your Life Colorful or Colorless?

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Have you ever notice that your life has become bland? Colorless? Drab? You just don’t seem to see bright colors? Or you don’t use them? Maybe you haven’t notice… I didn’t realize the colors in my life…indeed, my life…had become “muted” until last week while I was in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, for a [...]

Our Obsession with Predictions Keeps Us From Living in the Moment

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Humans love predictions. Just look at how Americans wait for a groundhog, of all the crazy animals in the world, to predict when spring will arrive. It’s a national holiday. Groundhog Day. Really? In fact, our obsession with predictions really just keeps us from living in the moment and doing what is necessary to create [...]

Are you stretching?

seedlings are stretch the way we need to stretch to reach our goals.

Lately I’ve been stretched to my max. I have no one to blame but myself. I’ve created numerous deadlines for myself and challenges—opportunities—all within a very short amount of time. Sometimes the stretching doesn’t feel so good. Like a teenager with growth pains, I can feel myself aching from the effort. But I know it’s [...]

Can You Live With Yourself After You Reach Your Goal?

Cross the finish line honestly

I’m a big proponent of setting goals—and reaching them. And we all like to win—to cross that finish line once we’ve put ourselves in a competition, no matter if we  compete against ourselves or against others. We want to know we have done our best and achieved that gold medal, which could be anything from [...]

Do You Cut of Your Nose to Spite Your Face?

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Do you remember that old saying, “Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face?” I’ve been thinking about it lately. Typically we use it when a person does something spiteful to hurt others that also hurts himself. Yet,  sometimes we don’t even know we are doing this. I see this happening often when we [...]