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Re-Defining Balance

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The other night at dinner my eight year-old son asked us what “ponder” means. It got me thinking. Lately, I’ve been getting clearer that I want to reduce the number of hours I work each week. I am really feeling a strong pull to be…
April 19, 2010
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The Great Wide Open

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I facilitated a Career Strategy Workshop this past Saturday morning for a wonderful group of men and women in their late thirties to late fifties at various life stages. I continue to offer this workshop (I’ve been doing it since 2005) because…
April 13, 2010
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Doing Mania

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This is the time of year that many of us feel more like human doings than human beings. Yesterday afternoon, my husband and seven-year old son went out to work on costumes for one of my husband’s upcoming Samba gigs. I had been looking…
February 7, 2010
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Your Stillpoint

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Last week, over the course of several days, we received a handful of emails and phone calls from entrepreneur clients and colleagues sharing the news that their start-up businesses were not where they needed to be financially at year-end and…
December 14, 2009
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Balance from the Inside-Out

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September has always been like the start of the New Year for me.   I have launched businesses, started new jobs, rolled out new business models, embarked on back-to-back speaking sprints and unveiled new creative endeavors around this time…
August 18, 2009
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Mystery

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Photo: I shot this photo in the Santa Elena Canyon on our last hike in Big Bend National Park before heading back to Austin. All week I kept telling my family how badly I wanted to see a snake on our trip. This guy poked his head of a stream…
April 12, 2009
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Alignment

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This past Saturday morning, my son and I got up early and headed out for a bike ride. We took some new routes through an older neighborhood. Not paying attention, I started to follow him too closely, and my tire knocked his, sending me into…
December 1, 2008
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Honoring Your Path

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I have just finished speaking at several national events and retreats on the topic of how to create balance from the "inside out" (the idea that fancy Blackberries and new organizing systems are truly just time management band-aids; creating…
October 20, 2008
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Busy-ness

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We recently returned from our visit to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. The trip was wonderful in many ways --though not very relaxing (as those of you with young, very active kids know). But overall, I was really grateful for…
August 19, 2008
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Benefits of Slowing Down

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My six-week writing sabbatical devoted to Everyday Spirituality is winding down as my family and I prepare to head to the Olympic Peninsula before my little one starts first grade later this month. The experience has given me so many things…
August 5, 2008
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Balancing Being and Doing

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“Life is not a thing to be managed. It’s a mystery to be lived.” Anonymous I am in the process of birthing a new way of being. And, like most births, it’s messy and not easy. Although many would look at my life and exclaim how…
July 14, 2008
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Expanses of Unscheduled Time

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Last weekend I had one of the most “decadent” and enjoyable weekends I’ve had in months. I had wanted to go out of town for the holiday weekend, but my husband convinced me we should just stay in town and take it easy. Even though we’re…
June 1, 2008
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