This card was just what I needed to find last week after I bottomed out on a personal goal I had been working on. After feeling a range of emotions from embarrassment to disappointment - I decided to NOT throw the towel in on myself. I turned off the negative chatter and tuned inward to listen to my heart, focused on my breath and got back up again. Sometimes life throws us off course and things don't go as planned. The biggest disappointments then become our biggest lessons.

I am in the process of a transformation. Yes you read that right - a life changing transformation. I'm reading an AMAZING book - ATOMIC HABITS, by James Clear. WHOA, can I say blown away?... It's a quick read on how to build good habits and break bad ones with tiny changes. He shares how deciding to get 1% better each day for a year can lead to being 37 times better by the end of the year. (diagram above) Wha Wha What?!!! It teaches how the compound effect of habit building c

This week I wanted to pass along a fabulous podcast episode from my master coach Brooke Castillo, founder of the school I was certified at - The Life Coach School. In the podcast you'll hear Brooke refer to "the model". This is the self coaching model that is the backbone to my coaching practice. WHY? Because this model teaches that nothing outside of yourself creates your happiness but you. AND The only thing that stops you from your goals and dreams are the thoughts between

Last week I hosted a workshop with a group of realtors. I put together a session that would give them the opportunity to see the power of perspective. We began with talking about the current challenges in their lives. Then we did a powerful exercise that tapped into their future selves....and then revisited those current challenges from a future self mindset. GAME CHANGER. Why? Because when you think from a higher place of certainty, your outlook changes, how you feel changes

What if the only action I asked you to take was to write down your goals, would you do it? Statistics show people who write down their goals have over an 80% higher success rate of achieving them. The photo above was the goal I wrote for myself at the end of 2006. I had visited Argentina in September of that same year. When I returned from that trip I had some inspiring ideas. I wasn't exactly clear what I wanted to do and I for sure did not know the HOW, but I wrote down wha

My main mission with my coaching work is to help people think better. When you think better, you feel better. When you feel better, you behave better. When you behave better, you get better results in your life. So, let me ask you: Are you paying attention to the inner coach who's talking compassionately and inspiringly to you OR are you paying attention to the inner critic who's doubting and sabotaging you? Unfortunately the odds are stacked against us humans. Our brain is p

I DON'T KNOW. Three of the most debilitating words you can say to yourself. After the new year as I started to settle in to January goals - I found myself saying those exact three words....over....and over. The end result from repeating this bad mantra was that I got further and further away from finding a solution. Here's how it sounded in my brain: "I don't know how to do this." "I've never done this before." "I can't do this" Repeating these defeating sentences, I became s

Have you taken time to write your New Year's Resolutions? As you think about 2019, I'd like to suggest you - DITCH YOUR LIST! I ditched my list years ago after stumbling on the one word tool a coach by the name of Christine Kane was doing. Her discovery tool asks you to think of how you want to feel vs writing out resolutions. 2015 - Connected 2016 - Inspired 2017- Trust 2018 - Expand What a difference these words made each year for me. I'm a firm believer that words have pow

Do you go to the gym once and expect a toned buffed body? I highly doubt it. You know that committing to going all the time is what will get you that result. Mental fitness is no different than any other practice you do to better yourself. Deciding how you want to feel, generating the thoughts that make you feel that way and practicing using those new intentional thoughts is how we shape our brain. So when you're feeling overwhelmed, stressed and anxious, stop and notice what

This week I want to ask you 4 questions: ** Who do you want to show up as in 2019? ** How do you want to feel in 2019? ** On December 31, 2019 how do you want to feel about yourself and how the year went? ** If everything could go magically perfect - what would your year look like? Those four questions are part of an intentional exercise I use with my clients. It's super powerful. It guides you to decide ahead of time. It allows you to set yourself up in your mind so that if