What if you expressed gratitude BEFORE you experience what you want to be grateful for? — What are you grateful for? Whenever I ask people what they’re grateful for, they usually share about people, animals, things, or situations they currently experience or recently accomplished. For example: I’m grateful for my family, including our dog Misty. I’m grateful that I have a warm place to sleep. I’m…

You say what you want, but you also argue why you can’t have it. — Have you ever heard the phrase “arguing for your limitations”? I first heard the expression at a personal growth workshop many years ago. One of the participants shared how she couldn’t accomplish something she wanted because she felt she was too old to go for it. The facilitator stopped her…

I didn’t say create your future. I said create “from” your future. — One of my clients recently shared with me a practice she started doing every morning. She calls it “Imagining.” She would pick an area of focus. It could be a specific project, like landscaping a backyard, or a personal intention she was working on, like getting her body into better…

You get to define what “good” looks like for you, in a way that makes you feel vitally alive and joyous. — What if you could experience the sweet goodness of life, in all areas of your life? In the book The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity: A Simple Guide to Abundance, the spiritual teacher Edwene Gaines defines this as “true prosperity”: A vitally alive physical body to provide a comfortable wordly…

Feeling the feels means allowing yourself to feel the full range of any and all emotions as they come up. — Last week my dad passed away. My partner Richard and I had flown to Las Vegas on Sunday of last week to visit my dad in the hospital. The next day he took a turn for the worst and was rushed to ICU. My sisters immediately booked their flights to…

Whether you realize it or not, you’re always feeding yourself something. Are you nourishing yourself, or are you starving the person you’re called to be? — If you have the common cold and you’re not feeling too well, what are some things you would do to get better? You might say eat some hot soup, maybe drink hot tea with lemon and honey, and get lots and lots of rest. When you think about it, you…

In between the shampoo and conditioner, there’s a possibility for brilliance. — A few months ago, I shared a post where I asked, “Why do all the best ideas come in the shower?” Lo and behold, this morning I had another great idea emerge. I was thinking about my upcoming workshop on Visioning that I’m doing this Saturday, and the question was…

If you want to make a change in your life, you first have to know where you are, and then you have to decide where you want to go. — When I meet with new coaching clients, we first do a deep dive into where they’re at in their lives. We look at career, relationships, health, money and a few other life structures and areas. It’s a great way to start because if you want to make changes to your…

Imagine if you experienced joy and the vitality of life each and every day. To experience that life, you first have to know what you want. — Drum roll please…. I’m excited to share with you something that’s been on my heart for quite a while. In October of 2020, I published my very first book, The Creative Impulse: Answering the Highest Calling of Your Heart. This was an endeavor that was 12 years in the making…