“Intention” is a powerful word. When you intend something, you determine where you focus your attention. Become an intentional person, and your actions align with your intention. That’s when you create the results you desire. Your intention is the direction in which you aim. Consider an archer who sets up a target with a bull’s …
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We have officially entered the holiday season. Maybe that fact fills you with joy. But, if not, then it likely makes you anxious. After all, the holidays can be filled with negative feelings and complicated family dynamics. That’s why many people search for ways to manage their emotions during the holidays. If you can just …
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It’s been four decades since I read about the concept of “vaporizing clouds” in Richard Bach’s book, Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah. Donald Shimoda teaches Bach to make clouds disappear or appear using the power of the mind. Indeed, our thoughts are creative. What you focus on expands. Stop placing your attention on …
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Learning is super important. But if you get stuck in learning, you might never start doing. You see, learning can become a distraction to doing. It’s still a good thing, and you continually want to educate yourself on whatever serves you best. But you don’t want that education to get in the way of taking …
Have you ever lost a day? You now what I mean…you had plans. You woke up in the morning and had things you were going to do…and then the day ended, and you had nothing to show for it. Maybe you even blocked time on your schedule for your priorities, responsibilities, and obligations. Your schedule …
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Do you know what you need? What’s necessary for you right now? I was on a call the other day with another coach. He said he needed a certain number of clients—or a specific amount of money—to come into his business from coaching in the next two weeks. If he couldn’t make that happen, he …
It’s easy to get bogged down in problems. We focus on them, and as we see a solution, they seem to get bigger and more difficult. There’s another way to tackle problems. First, see problems as challenges or opportunities. Don’t make them something negative. In fact, problems are just situations we judge as negative. You …
You can’t manage time. It’s an unchanging and unalterable aspect of life. If you want “more time,” you must manage your attention. In other words, you have to become conscious of where you focus your mind during any given period of time. When you focus your attention, you achieve your goals more easily. You have …
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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My husband watched my daughter walk by a group of boys today after a swim meet. She had gotten dressed for a dance at school and was wearing a short skirt and a bright red top with bright red pumps. One of the boys watched her walk by and asked the other boys, “Who’s that?” …
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