While at the gym recently I was looking around the room, observing. It is one way I learn ideas for new exercises. It wasn’t long before I found myself thinking about the difference in levels of fitness in the room. I started thinking about how everyone in that room got there through a different experience.
Do you know this type person? The person who is clearly up to no good and has ill or selfish intentions with every move he/she makes? Do you ever wonder why more people cannot see the truth about that person or why people are still willing to support him/her when it is so blatantly obvious
When my sister was killed, I was grasping to make sense of the situation. It wasn’t fair, it wasn’t logical, it wasn’t right. Although it still doesn’t make sense and is still extremely emotional and senseless, I was offered advice from someone that helped me move forward without letting what happened drag me down. Many
It started with a simple question, “Do you think we could get a bottle of wine for the table?” and ended with one woman storming away while the other women looked after her, confused by what just offended the woman in the black blazer. The rest of the people sitting at the table sat in
There is no playbook for life. I’ve learned a few things about what seems to work best regarding how we should approach life, especially when facing difficult situations. In addition to battles I’ve already shared like my eating disorder, depression, and family alcoholism, my family experienced a recent tragedy. My sister was killed by a
I was watching my sister-in-law compete at a horse show. I mentioned to my six year old niece that I was excited to watch her mom compete. She immediately responded by asking me what that meant. After helping her understand the word compete, I wondered why, as we become adults, we often become afraid to
Find people who are doing what you want to do and ask questions. Learn from them. Ask for advice. Soak it up. Learn from their mistakes. Learn from their successes. Do what they did to get where they got. That is advice I've been offered again and again. And I listen. I make those contacts
I have been described in many ways. Some are positive and others aren't so positive. And who knows what people have said about me that I haven't even heard. One of the things I have always taken great pride in being described as is, authentic. Authentic people are more confident with less self-doubt, are more
Failure or success, all experiences have lessons embedded in them that you can, and should be cultivating and embracing. Following are four ways you can more easily excavate those lessons. Take time to THINK about it. When we move too quickly from one experience to the next, we bypass any opportunity to appreciate the lessons
Have you ever seen the show, “Naked and Afraid?” The first time I heard of it I laughed about how ridiculous it sounded. They will create a show about anything. Then I saw it once. And then several more times. It’s an interesting show. I have no desire to be on the show (the thought