What does living a better life mean to you? Or the phrase, "live your best life"? For me it means living a life that is true to who I am, living out the desires and dreams that are in my heart, living my life on purpose. It means every decision I make will be in [...]
Month: October 2017
Freedom vs Compromise (Part 2)
What is freedom? Dictionary.com gives this definition of freedom: the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint exemption from external control, interference, regulation, etc the power to determine action without restraint personal liberty, as opposed to bondage or slavery. [...]
Freedom vs Compromise (Part 1)
You were born free, but somewhere along the way you lost your freedom. Was it fear? Fear of rejection? Fear of being let down? Fear of not being enough, or good enough, or pretty enough, or intelligent enough? What bound you? What have you compromised? What have you given up or lost? What do you [...]
Time Management 101
We spin our wheels, or spin the hands of the clock, and the day ends, and there is so much still unfinished. All those jobs or assignments or projects we began in the hope of completing, left unfinished, maybe some not even started. Yet, we were busy all day! What happened? I was at church [...]
How do you deal with setbacks?
Have you ever started a diet, or tried anything new, and then something happens and you just end up going back to the way you were? I have! I cannot even count how many times. Setbacks happen all the time and we have a choice as to how we handle setbacks... we can either change [...]
Vulnerability – where does it fit?
Vulnerability can be a scary thing. Who hasn't been vulnerable at some point and it has come back to bite them? But without it, we cannot experience close connection with others. And we need to. No-one can truly live on an island. We are created for relationship and deep connection. But without vulnerability we cannot [...]
Freedom: what does it mean to you?
Freedom. It means different things to different people. What does it mean to you? When I think of freedom I think of living free. Living the way I was created to be. The way I was born to be. It means knowing who I am. Knowing who I am changes how I respond to things [...]
Creating self-awareness
Coaching is all about creating self-awareness, creating self-decisiveness, and helping create self-directed action. I'm not sure I've always been a very self-aware person, but I see the importance of it now. I thought awareness was more about being aware of what was going on around me, or in others, but its really about me, or [...]
Are you worth it?
Well, I think you are, because I think you're amazing, but let me explain in what context I am meaning. Women are notorious for putting everyone’s needs before their own. As wives and mothers, we put our partner and our children first, and that is ok as long as our own needs are not neglected. [...]
Be you.. is it something you need to learn to do?
I'm reading a fabulous book at the moment about the concept to "be you" by one of my favourite life coaches, Cheryl Richardson. The book is called, "The Art of Extreme Self-Care", and I recommend it to you. When I read this yesterday, my heart skipped a beat, because it is the same message our [...]