To live and demonstrate strong personal leadership, where we are at choice with our thoughts, requires the cultivation and practice of gratitude.
Check out my latest piece on Cultivating a Gratitude Attitude.
Read MoreRunning a solopreneur service-based business is always tricky in the summer months.
There is a general slowing of business pace, further impacted by well deserved holidays and if not carefully safeguarded this lag could impact your momentum, focus and service provision.
If you’re feeling stressed about what needs to be done, what is not getting done, and a general sense of summer mayhem – your physical and emotional energy will be further drained.
Read MoreBy the time my butt hit my office chair this morning… honestly… I was looking up for the oxygen mask to come falling from the ceiling.
It’s pretty common to use the phrase ‘put your own mask on first’ as a way of celebrating or promoting paying attention to your self-care. But think about it... ‘put your own mask on first’… is an emergency response strategy to a pending disaster.
Read MoreSo what are you, an optimist or a pessimist?
Each of us lean toward one of these two mindsets, which is a partial result of inheritance and is partly influenced by life circumstance. We also ebb and flow from one end of the mindset continuum to the other. The good news is that with practice we can become more optimistic.
Read MoreThe beauty in fostering imperfection in family life and love.
Read MoreFrom the outside I seemed to have it all dialed down, but inside my shoes, my socks were slipping off. For I am a (recovering) perfectionist.
My three year - ongoing practice of fostering self-compassion and ditching my perfectionist inner critic has paid off. I feel like the woman I'm aspiring to be.
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