Val on December 11th, 2008

This morning, while journaling, a new process came to me that I knew I had to post here. It’s called The Turn-Around.
It’s a 15-20 second process that consists of 7 simple questions. The intention of The Turn-Around is to re-direct thinking while having an experience you don’t want to have or that isn’t necessarily good [...]

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THE CHALLENGE
Life can get really busy, and one of the challenges I’ve heard over and over again from clients and others is that they just don’t have the time (or energy) to wake up early in the morning and begin the day with prayer and meditation, or with some kind of self-sustaining spiritual practice.
I know [...]

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Val on November 13th, 2008

Part 2
Yesterday I spoke of the first 5 Faces of Fear in the post titled The 9 Faces of Fear: Part 1, and how I was able to overcome my fear of public speaking to do what I do now, which is being an inspirational speaker.
Today, we’ll talk about the next 4 Faces of Fear [...]

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Val on November 12th, 2008

Part 1

If you’re anything like me and every other human on the planet, you’ve had your fair share of encounters with fear.
I used to be deathly afraid of speaking, even to individuals, much less to an audience full of people. It’s a huge fear I had to overcome to do what I do as an [...]

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Val on October 28th, 2008

It seems almost everyone wants to be successful, but so few actually are, somewhere between 5-20%. The other 80-95% will never reach the levels of success they say they want. I’m intrigued by humans and what we do, so I’ve been exploring this question for years from different angles.
What creates success?
I’ve talked to hundreds of [...]

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Val on October 16th, 2008

I’m eating crow today.
The other morning, I had a blow up with my beloved hubby (rest assured I was not calling him beloved the other day).
Of course, I was convinced he was wrong. I’ll tell you more about that later.
For right now, I’ll share with you what I discovered about myself this morning, and what [...]

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Back to coaching. I haven’t talked about it in a week or so, and I promised to post more information about coaching, the differences between Spiritual Life Coaching (which is what I do) and traditional life coaching, and how to find a great coach that suits your unique goals, dreams, aspirations and personal circumstance.
To get [...]

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Val on September 8th, 2008

I don’t mean the sit-in-a-box-and-tell-a-priest-all-your-sins kind of confession (if that’s what came to your mind) nor am I referring to the dump-on-someone-by-telling-them-all-the-things-you-did-wrong kind of confession either.
I’m talking about clearing your mind, body and spirit of what bogs you down. It’s all about release, letting go, and moving on. And the beauty of it is: you [...]

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Val on August 27th, 2008

I’ve been talking about coaching lately, so I thought this might be a good week to highlight some of my coaches. I’ve got several, each for different areas of my life. In this post, I’ll focus on my blogging coach, Yaro Starak, and why I believe he’s outstanding at what he does.
If you read my [...]

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Val on August 23rd, 2008

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 [...]

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