Values

Life isn’t easy. It often has a way of pushing you down whenever you try to move forward. As a result, you may have struggled to find happiness in your life. Not only has this impacted your overall outlook but also your satisfaction with life. Yet, you’re ready to start fresh, building your happiness again. […]

It is not unusual for people who have survived a catastrophic trauma such as a shooting, rape or childhood sexual abuse to not feel hopeful and that life is not worth living. I could spend time trying to figure out WHY survivors feel discouraged. However, I want to focus on how to move forward in creating […]

What do you carry in your back pack for increasing the quality of your life? How do you know what is important to pack with you for the journey? Your back pack is just like life and is limited in what it will hold. The quality of your life depends on filling your back pack with purposeful and meaningul direction and then […]

This is part two from a post I started on September 25, 2014. Step three: Tending the garden. Summer is the height of the growing season. Your seeds have sprouted and the plants are getting taller.   What are you listening and watching for in the garden. Using this metaphor take time to listen to […]

Project management is the ultimate in time management. Lately, I have given up time management and switched to attention and focus management as an effective way to complete tasks (projects) that are both large and small. Time management can feel like herding cats. It can get away from you. Time is out of our control […]

Have you ever felt so overwhelmed with an emotion you thought you were going to crawl out of your skin?  Most of us have at one point or another had experiences that are difficult to manage intense feelings.  I call the intense experience an Emotional Tsunami. Do you become the expereince of being the Tsunami? […]