This past weekend, I conducted a women’s retreat, which turned out to be an amazing success. God is good. At times during the weekend, because it was full of activity, I felt rushed. When I did, I took a moment to center myself and slow things down. I thought of writing this post because of [ Read More ]
What is coaching? I get asked this question pretty often, and I sometimes get stumped on exactly how to answer it, not because I don’t know what coaching is, but because coaching is so many things that I don’t know where to begin. So, I’m writing this article for my own benefit just as much [ Read More ]
This morning I had a revelation: guilt is totally unnecessary. This, in spite of the fact that everyone I know has some measure of guilt about something. It’s completely unnecessary. There’s never a reason or cause to feel guilt, and by the time you finish reading this post you may think a little differently about [ Read More ]
Affirmations can be excellent for changing unwanted states of mind, especially when the unwanted state of mind is manifesting an undesirable condition. You can literally speak your way free of anything you don’t want. The magical power of words can, and should be used to your advantage, all day, every day. Here are affirmations in [ Read More ]
How are you influencing the people around you? Each of us influences the people around us. Likewise, each of the people around us influences us. Understanding how we affect the people around us is vital to success and destiny living, just as it’s key to understand how the people you consistently associate with affect you. [ Read More ]
Today was the home going service for Alphonso, a dear friend’s husband. It was a beautiful service. What struck me most were the words used to describe Alphonso. I didn’t know him well, yet, by the time the service was concluded, I felt so much closer to this compassionate human being. Here’s what was said [ Read More ]
Today I was talking with a coaching client when the subject of process came up. Something came to me that I thought I’d write about here: Life is 90% process and 10% payoff. I’ll be climbing Mount Kilamanjaro in February of 2009. It would be wise for me to prepare in advance for the climb. [ Read More ]
This past Friday, it was my intention to experience and emanate peace, and to infuse peace into everything I did. Well, when I arrived at Mr. Tire, the peaceful notion I had just had a few minutes earlier was already being challenged. I sat in the customer seating area waiting for my tire to be [ Read More ]
My affirmation today is: God is the Lens with which I see. This came to me the other day as I was ruminating on the concept of seeing God in everything. I don’t remember the particular trigger that got me thinking along these lines, but I know what it was akin to. I keep hearing [ Read More ]
Breakthrough is what happens when you’ve been working on an idea for a long time, seemingly getting nowhere, or moving at a snail’s pace, when all of a sudden, something happens that causes everything to come together in an instant. It happened to me yesterday. For a long time, I’ve been holding the vision of [ Read More ]
Today is my 4th wedding anniversary, and it is an especially important milestone for us. Our marital journey has not been without its ups and downs, most notably our separation a year ago. We have since chosen to reconcile, and have been going to counseling for several months with that end in mind. This anniversary [ Read More ]
After having slept on it last night, upon awaking this morning and while still lying in bed giving thanks, something else came to me about commitment. What happens when we cannot honor our commitments or no longer desire to? What then? Maybe you had the same question on your mind. Since I like formulas (they [ Read More ]
