Have you ever felt like life is a process of continuously paddling your boat upstream? If you have, you know the experience feels challenging, frustrating, and pointless. Despite your great effort, you move forward only a little, if at all. And for every few feet you gain, you lose twice as many when your craft …
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Our natural desire to be liked and, even more so, loved, can cause us to try enormously hard to fit in and behave in acceptable ways. It’s easy to forget, though, that the best way to be loved and accepted is to be ourselves…fully, unapologetically, unabashedly. Indeed, when you allow yourself to show up authentically, …
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Sometimes, when I speak about Certified High Performance Coaching, people mistakenly think I want to help them do more. If they already feel stressed by the number of commitments they have, they balk at any mention of “leveling up” their current performance. “I want to do less,” they say, “not more. I don’t want more …
You are enrolled in the School of Life. Sometimes you succeed in its classes, and sometimes, you don’t do as well as you’d hoped. Your grade is dependent upon how often you show up, how well you study and understand the lessons, how much knowledge you retain, and how you apply what you know. It’s …
A week ago I received a High Performance Coach certification from the High Performance Institute. I received my training from highest paid high-performance coach today. I wanted this certification for myself—so I could learn how to increase my performance levels—as well as for my clients—so I could help them fulfill their potential in the same …
Do you wake up feeling alive, excited, passionate, energetic, and enthusiastic about life? If not, you need to change something. I just returned from five days with Brendon Bouchard, bestselling author and high performance coach. I became a certified High Performance Coach. While in the training, I was reminded to think about how I live …
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How often have you complained about a current or ongoing situation or condition? Maybe you’re unhappy about your life, job, relationship, health, or financial situation. You focus on the “problem,” and allow it to make you unhappy. This mindset creates an unhappy life, but what you desire is a happy life. In all likelihood, you …
It’s easy to lose perspective, especially if you are too close to a situation, project, or person. Getting some distance helps you see things more clearly. When you remove yourself—in time or space—you see things differently or more objectively. So often things are not as they seem. From our viewpoint, we only see one reality. …
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If you want to succeed in life—personally or professionally—you have to know how to move yourself forward. You can’t just do what you’ve always done. You have to do something different, something more. Think of it this way, if you just walk in place, you don’t move forward. Equate walking in place to managing your …
Do you know what you want…specifically? If you ask for what you want clearly and intelligently, you will get it. Maybe it won’t happen the first time. Sometimes you have to play around with how you ask or find more clarity about what you desire. But you will receive what you ask life to give …
Part of the midlife experience for many mothers involves releasing children when they go off to college. Sometimes this means just moving them into a dorm across town. Other times it means taking them off to college across state or several states away. And still other times it involves leaving them at universities all the …
Here in Northern California it does not feel like spring. It’s 40 degrees and rainy. However, it’s April and the lilies and daffodils are blooming, so I know spring has sprung. So, it’s appropriate that the next seder symbol I’m going to look at is karpas, the green vegetables that remind the seder participants that …
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