I love strategies. I love making plans. True story: When my husband and I first started dating, I was about to head out for a five-week trip to Costa Rica and was packing a pretty full schedule. I’d suggested we open the calendar together and do a little planning. He said yes, with enthusiasm. He had me at his willingness to get into planning mode with me, but really won me over when he said “This is great, now we know all the times we’ll get to spend together.” *giggle swoon* Fast forward six years and he groans at calendar time and gives
Love your Humanity
Your gifts may be rough. Offer them anyway.
Diamonds start rough and so do our gifts. The measure of what we have to offer should not be in its popularity or ‘people getting it’ or likes or uptake. The measure of what we have to offer is by how much it’s killing us to keep it inside and who is suffering without it. My friends, I know the fears. “It’s been done before, it’s been said before, my ideas aren’t unique.” “I’ll be judged or shamed or persecuted. Or worse, I’ll be boring, irrelevant.” “It’s too noisy, people want quick fixes, success and ethics don’t mix.” “I’ll lose
My Inconvenient Holiday Miracle
I’m not here to share about the last 10 years, but what happened in the last 10 days. My holiday miracle. This miracle made time stretch out like taffy, my Christmas socks sticking to the present moment without slipping in the usual ways. Our home was bursting with guests and food and wine and music. Busy. And yet, with this miracle came a different kind of silence, stillness. Space between the moments. My mind settled, less grasping, less reaching, less distracting. Fullness came rushing in. Connections right in front of me became my whole world. I got to put down
On fear, doubt and the vulnerability of dreaming. Are you enough to meet your calling?
Do you feel like you’re enough to meet your calling? People often reveal to me that what’s holding them back from their next level pursuit is a fear that they don’t have what it takes or are not good enough to pull it off. What if we turned that fear on its head by accepting the truth of our not-enough-ness? Instead of being afraid that you don’t have what it takes, acknowledge that you actually don’t. Yet. What are the assumptions embedded in this ‘not good enough’ fear? I had a conversation with a friend recently who had heaps of experience,
Inspiration to Integration – 3 Part Practice Series
I made you something. It’s a 3 part practice series. Inspiration to Integration, turn daunting dreams into realized results. Obviously I like a little cheese on my alliteration with a subtitle like that. Seriously though, the information age might as well be dubbed the age of overwhelm. We have so much coming in and at us, it can be challenging to discern what to give our attention to at all, never mind what to take into our hearts and allow to deeply influence our lives. While there’s a lot of bad news out there in this seemingly disintegrating world, there are also so many
The Mudpit of Being and Becoming.
I first came to know the value of focusing on my development early on. I believe fervently in the gifts we have to bring to the world. Like each of us are cells in one body, traveling about, contributing to our collective wholeness. The concept of Self-as-Instrument has always resonated for me as both a lifelong path and practice and also as the truest way to do good work in the world. Develop self-awareness, cultivate presence and embody the capacities that support the work I want to do. Sign me up! Doing my first Vipassana meditation retreat at 18 seemed
Our life’s purpose and the relentless quest for certainty.
What does it mean to be clear in the midst of not knowing? What does this have to do with realizing our purpose? Everything. Many people come to coaching seeking clarity. So many of us assume that clarity will feel like certainty, yet clarity is most alive when surrendering to what’s unknown. Fear and doubt are also hunkered down in the unknown, waiting for us. For me, fear and doubt manifest as confusion. I get confused when I’m really not. I pretend I need more clarity when I’m right at the edge of what I know is true and what
Soul Passage. The Initiations of Birth and Death
I gave birth on a full moon, a few days into autumn. I was at home, in a pool in my living room in the sacred embrace of my husband, 10 year old son, my sweet dog-doula, Arbor, and the most empowering birth team I could have asked for. Time stopped. Love expanded. Commitments vanished. Priorities clarified. Within a few months, I’d be stepping into a doula role myself, though this time a doula of death. This past spring, still in a hazy postpartum daze, my husband and I bought a home, moved our freshly expanded family and set up
The world of work is changing
The world of work is changing. Whether we’re shaping it or furiously trying to catch up, is up to us. As consumers, we get to vote for the future with our buying power. When it comes to what we actually want and need, how and where things are produced as well as the working systems and conditions that produce it, we can influence our economies with our values and choices. As entrepreneurs, we help create the new world of work. We get to build ways of working that actually work for us, our families, our staff and communities. Many of
Team Culture. Being at the helm for today’s entrepreneur
It’s recognized these days that workplace culture has a significant impact on employee satisfaction, engagement and productivity. But how do leaders know if the culture they think they have is aligned with the actual experience of the people on the team? How do we — with intention — create a team culture that people want to be a part of? Culture is the collective agreement about who we are, what we value, and what the standards and norms are for people like us. It’s how things are done around here. Even when a team intends to cultivate a certain kind
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