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How do you embrace everything that happens in your life… as if you chose it?
Amor fati is a Latin phrase translating to “love of fate” or “love of one’s fate,” representing a mindset that embraces everything in life—good or bad—as necessary, valuable, and designed to be utilized for growth. Rooted in Stoicism and famously adopted by Nietzsche, it is an active acceptance that transforms obstacles into opportunities, allowing individuals to…
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Mastering Anything Requires a Resistance Practice
In the book Mastery by Robert Greene he shares that by nature, we humans shrink from anything that seems possibly painful or overly difficult. Once we grow adept at some aspect of a particular skill, generally one that comes more easily to us, we prefer to practice this element, over and over. Our skill becomes…
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How to Let Go of ‘Singing for your Supper’
The phrase ‘singing for your supper’, is older than the modern workplace and far older than LinkedIn ambition. In medieval towns, wandering minstrels arrived with no contract and no guarantee of welcome. If they wanted to eat, they performed. A song bought a bowl of stew. A story earned bread and butter. The arrangement was…
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The Psychology of Money…not what you Think
Today I stumbled onto something that made me see in a whole new light. I realized that I’d been looking at the surface of an issue for years… and the real mechanism was sitting underneath the whole time. It happened while I was reflecting on a very familiar pattern: Why my money seems to constrict…
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Don’t compromise
In order to succeed in the world according to you and only you alone, you must let go, in order to let in. Start with being fake. Eliminate it altogether. Stop hiding. Allow yourself to be fully seen. Quit trying to outdistance fear. Fear is here for the long haul – don’t let it stop…
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Burnout is not a badge of honor
I saw this quote while scrolling through Instagram – Burnout is not a badge of honor. Up until recently burnout was something that I could not relate to. That is until I had a conversation with my doctor who said that what I was describing to him sounded like burnout. I wrote about it a…
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Cope or quit?
How do you know when you should continue to cope or just quit? It’s a difficult position to be in for sure because quitting is very scary. What’s on the other side when I say “That’s it! No more!” Am I going to be able to support myself financially? Do I have any clue what…
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One of the biggest diseases of our time
I wanted to share a quote from Debbie Forde. Debbie died on Sunday February 17, 2013 after a long battle with cancer. One of the biggest diseases of our time is people pleasing. People saying ‘yes’ when they mean ‘no.’ Then they feel resentful. They can’t actually go about and meet their own soul’s vision because they’re…
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How Freedom Causes Failure
I started to think about this on my daily walk yesterday. On Tuesday I started a brand new journal and adopted a different approach to navigating 2014. I made some definite decisions about the direction I intended to go in my business and life and how I was going to hold myself accountable. I also…
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Whatever Exists in your Business that you DON’T LIKE is what you CHOOSE to Tolerate!
One of my clients called me one Saturday morning – FRUSTRATED! One of her employees was a ‘no show’ at the time her business place opened. This meant that the other person working that morning had no help, which would delay pre-business preparations, Lord knows, by how long. My client made several attempts to call…
Clarity BEFORE Execution. Structure BEFORE Speed
High-stakes decisions deserve disciplined thinking
You don’t need to move faster.
You need to reduce unnecessary risk.
When your decision affects income, reputation, or stability,
pause with structure before you act.
Giselle Hudson | Pre-Decision Advisory for Leaders Under Pressure 