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If you want freedom, you cannot afford to wing it on any day
How do you keep your motivation? You come up with a new idea or approach. You can feel it in your entire being that this is what needs to happen for you. You are excited and can’t wait to reap the rewards and then you take a break. Or perhaps you start talking yourself out…
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Want a successful business? Pay attention to details – don’t just fix and forget
One thing you can NEVER do in your business, or life for that matter, is fix something and forget it. Living involves many moving parts, with change on a daily basis so chances are, a change made today could be irrelevant in six months. Since I shared my burnout experience, I made a huge overhaul.…
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Not everyone sees what you see
You have been blessed with a particular way of interpreting the world. You may be able with confidence and speed to break down choices, drawing on past experiences. You might be an exceptional storyteller or possess the ability to mix whatever resources you have on hand with a helping of imagination and a dose of…
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Self-doubt has a positive message within
The more important a call to action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it. But to yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be. STEVEN PRESSFIELD Steven Pressfield insists that self-doubt is par for the…
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I will not die an unlived life…
The title of this post is the first line of a beautiful poem by Dawn Markova. I saw it in an Oprah Magazine and I typed and printed it out as a reminder that every day that I am gifted – must be lived. Yet for years I tried to live a carefully scripted life.…
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I never thought of politics as a profession
“I never thought of politics as a profession”. ― Georgios A. Papandreou I’m with Georgios. I never really considered politics as a profession but it should be. I’ve heard the following arguments: The second argument seems to be the stronger of the two as we keep voting for the same ‘experienced’ – gradually becoming old…
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Tune into your body – your guide to better health
My doctor suggested that I might have been suffering from post traumatic stress. Twenty sixteen was a particularly difficult year. So often we keep stepping into the next day without any thought about the messages that our bodies send to us. We nurse the pain, self-medicate, indulge in over eating or over drinking – our…
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If you found a cure for a deadly disease, would you hide it in your basement?
On January 18, 2013, my friend Michael Katz, Blue Penguin founder and Chief Penguin, who specializes in coaching small professional service firms and solos in word-of-mouth marketing shared a post called: Give The Gift of You – which you can read in its entirety here. At the time, I was struggling with thinking that potential…
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Are you an Expert?
In the world of work someone is called an expert if: Or expert status is measured by the number of clients you have. The more clients – the greater your expert status! The dictionary definition talks about knowledge and skill, so you might be called an expert if: I prefer to use the definition from…
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The secret power we all possess
We are all uniquely blessed, with various talents and gifts yet there is one thing we all possess and that is a voice. Our voice is what we use to let the Universe know what we want, it is how we communicate with the world and how we ensure that our cups continue to overflow…

