Over the last few weeks, we discussed meaningful relationships and connections with others. This week is all about the relationship with oneself. Yes, how close and aligned we feel with a deeper sense of who we are and how it is expressed in all the corners of our lives.
How is your LOVE life?
Welcome to week five as we work our way around the Life Balance Wheel, taking that inventory of your life. This week we are going to visit a topic that can feel very vulnerable for some! We'll be exploring our love life – our significant other.
Read moreHow are your relationships with friends and family?
If you've been following along the past few weeks, you'll know this week we've made it halfway around the Life Balance Wheel as we've taken inventory of your life. And this week and next, we are going to talk about your most important relationships.
Read moreHow is Your Health?
Over the last couple of weeks, we have begun taking an inventory of your life using the Life Balance Wheel. Today we will visit the third pie on your wheel, your health. Allow me to ask various questions to help you get a perspective of your health and its elements.
Read moreMoney, how’s that going?
This week, we're continuing to take an inventory of your life using the Life balance wheel. Last week we discussed your sense of purpose, or where you spend most of your day. For some, it's their job; for others, it's caring for other beings, volunteering, maintaining their home, and sometimes all the above.
Read moreHow satisfied are you with your sense of purpose?
Here we go! Over the next 8-weeks, we will dive into your life and take an inventory of where you are. We are going to hover over your life as if in a helicopter and notice what the landscape looks like. We'll note the nice green lush areas as well as areas that look a little brown, parched, and ignored.
You must first be right where your feet are today in order to move anywhere else.
Read moreThe Great Exit
Some call it the Great Exit, the Big Resign. Employers throughout the nation are struggling to fill positions to meet the demand of the customers and business operations.
Of course, the complexities that this pandemic has caused have a lot to do with the current crisis in filling and maintaining staffing levels. Parents are exhausted with the unpredictability of childcare and safety concerns for themselves and family.
For many, it may be the workload is more than one can handle, given the burdens of life. Some have expressed boredom or burnout. And, based on the floods of emails and calls that I have received, it seems many people are reassessing their priorities.
A recent news article described a mom of a 9-year-old child who claimed that in all the years her child was in school, she never had the luxury of picking her up after school. The sadness she felt about that reality was palpable.
As a result of the pandemic, she began working from home. It allowed her to experience that regularly, and much to her surprise, that simple practice of connecting with her child while in transition from school-home helped them connect differently on a deeper level.
While they chatted about what the day was like, her experiences, and any challenges she was struggling with, it occurred to this woman that their regular routine did not lend itself to connecting. With the chaos of getting home from work, transitioning from after-school childcare, feeding the family, and getting homework done before bedtime, there were always tasks to get done to prepare for the next day.
We can be so task-oriented that we forget to establish intimate connections with others and SELF.
Perhaps one of the greatest gifts of this pandemic is that we were all forced to stop and listen, be, and experience in ways we haven't, while there wasn't any other choice.
So now what?
Are you struggling with going back to the way it used to be? Are you feeling out of alignment with how you live your life compared to what your intuition desires? Do you long to change an aspect of your life but struggle with what and how?
Sometimes it is helpful to know what we don't want in order to know what we do want.
May I suggest that taking an honest look at your life (your whole life) is a perfect place to begin? And I would like to help you with that process.
Beginning the first week of January, I am offering a free journey into your sacred life to help you take an inventory. For eight weeks, I will offer a brief weekly assessment of each important area of your life to help you discover the clarity, peace, and direction you are longing to experience.
All you must do is print out the Life Balance Wheel handout here and commit to reading or listening to a brief podcast each week. In them, I will ask you the necessary thought-provoking questions designed to help you assess your truth. What I promise is, after the eight weeks, you will have a clearer perspective of your life and a path to begin change and transformation.
I hope you take advantage of this opportunity, and feel free to invite a friend or two to join you on this journey.
Here is to a new year filled with new possibilities!
Would you attempt to write a book without an editor? Most people would probably say NO!
Whether it's the first time writing a book or an experienced bestseller, an editor can help you refine what you want to say. They can save you from your worst writing weaknesses. They can help you distill your narrative, tighten your plot, and pace your story. So if you are serious about writing a successful book, investing in an editor can most certainly be the best support for achieving that goal. With this in mind, I would like to make a case for using an expert to unlock your greatest potential and maximize your efforts to achieve any goal or objective.
Read moreWhen listening to others, are you really listening?
Consider how present you are when engaging in conversation with others. Are you really listening, or are you distracted, busy thinking about how you can fix or save that person? Maybe lost in your thoughts, or perhaps judging the speaker.
Read moreCriticism or Compassion, what is your preferred motivator?
I'd like to offer a little wisdom as to why self-compassion can be our greatest ally when faced with life adversities. When support, motivation, and encouragement are needed.
Do you usually take the burnt piece of chicken for yourself?
First, this isn't really about food, but more importantly, about the actions or intentions you practice. This is about self-worth and self-love. In other words, what are the habits or tendencies that you have adopted in your life that convince or discredit your sense of value and the message given to others?
Read moreCan you find the gift in your struggles?
Our perspective on life can be the difference between feeling defeated or resilient.
Read moreIs it BURNOUT or could it be Boredom?
Are you feeling a lack of focus, energy, disconnected from your life, job, family, and friends?
Read moreWhat do your chosen friendships say you about who you are?
I was nearly forty years old, and like so many, I had spent years working on my career, building a family, home, and developing a sense of security with my husband. I describe those years as the chapter of chasing, acquiring and making things happen.
Read moreDoes the blueprint by which your pre-pandemic life was built on, still work?
After a year and a half of life turned upside down, inside out, I predict several things have changed the landscape of your life, probably in a very profound way!
Read moreIs your well EMPTY?
Is your well EMPTY? Yes, your well, your tank, or some may say oxygen. We can certainly recognize it when it happens with our cars, if our children are tired or hungry, or when a wilting house plant becomes thirsty for water and light. But can you recognize the symptoms in yourself?
Read moreCan Self-sabotaging Behavior be GRIEF in Disguise?
When asked how grief is expressed, many would probably say sadness, depression, sorrow, or misery. And yes, all those are true. Yet what if sarcasm, judgment, cynicism, and jealousy could also be grief in disguise?
Read moreAre you living your Dharma or Dogma?
Do you know what your life's purpose is? Have you had a glimpse of this purpose but have not yet found a way to live it fully? Does living your life's purpose mean that you must financially support yourself using it? Are there rules or beliefs that you live by that stand in the way of living this purpose?
Read moreNow what?
Now what? A simple two-word sentence, packed with so much energy and reverence for what WAS, IS, and COULD BE! This simple question can evoke scores of reactions and feelings from anger to JOY and everything in between... a recipe of uncertainty. And, if vulnerability is something you try to avoid at all costs, how do you begin moving forward when faced with so much uncertainty?
Read moreDo you have a dream, vision, or intention for this coming year?
Do you have a dream, vision, or intention for this coming year? Perhaps 2020 has offered you clarity about what you DON'T want in your life? By knowing what you don't want, it clears the way for articulating what you DO want.
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