5 questions to help you gain clarity & focus

How do you react when someone asks, "How balanced is your life?" Maybe you feel defensive, frustrated, hopeless, angry or perhaps you roll your eyes and check out completely. The word balance (which can sound exasperating and unrealistic)…

Are your yin & yang out of balance?

As a communications director, throughout my twenties and most of my thirties, I pushed myself hard. After securing media coverage for a client on the TODAY Show, I barely stopped to breathe before I was pitching their story to National…

Simplifying from the inside-out

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I remember one 4th of July weekend when my husband and I gathered a small group of friends for a “Freedom Fest." No fireworks, hot dogs, or Tchaikovsky. Instead, we had a potluck and asked each guest to bring one thing that “I want to…

Do you live intentionally, or haphazardly?

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"A strong intention can make 'two oceans wide' be the size of a blanket or 'seven hundred years' the time it takes to walk to someone you love." Rumi Do you ever wonder how all the day-to-day choices you make, big and small, affect your…

What the mountains taught me

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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.― Johann Wolfgang…

What’s your intention for this summer?

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What is your intention for summer 2014? Do you plan to slow down and enjoy unscheduled downtime with your family? Is there a work or creative project you want to complete by the end of August? Do you want to reconnect with those you love…

Who am I, really?

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"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you really are." Joseph Campbell This past week I was visiting with a friend, a wise and trusted OB-GYN. She shared that she is experiencing some sadness and grief. After many decades, she is…

Do you embrace life’s mysteries?

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“Life is not a thing to be managed, it’s a mystery to be lived.” Anonymous In our Austin career coaching offices where our senior coaches see clients, sits a red heart-shaped box filled with some of our favorite inspirational and…

5 days unplugged=whole new perspective

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Last week I took a five day writing sabbatical (read more). I was holed up at home and ended up getting a cold, but the week was illuminating nonetheless. Being unplugged for five days helped me see with absolute clarity what was working--and…

Why I’m taking a sabbatical

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When I was 30 years old I chose to leave a high-stress, perk-filled corporate job and take a month off from the working world to re-design my career path. I had just taken a life-changing trip to Europe and was sitting in my cube working…

Cultivating an attitude of gratitude

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Growing up, our overachiever family placed a high value on competency. Often that translated into a critical mindset towards self and others, where we frequently saw the bad before the good. This way of being, like all patterns, became…

Do what makes you happy

A few years ago I attended a writing workshop and towards the end of the weekend, the facilitator asked us to go around the circle and share, "What makes you happy." The smell of fresh cut grass, snuggling in bed with loved ones, sitting…
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