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In our busy lives and in our leadership roles in our organizations or businesses, we can be very focused on “to dos,” what is next on the list, and asking ourselves: how much can I get done today, and how can I get some food organized so I can keep going? These are all important for reaching our goals (I have coached some high achievers who thought eating took too much time) for sure.

However, the real key to achieving at a deeper level, and what will feed your soul as a leader and businesspers…

The work of Dr. David Hawkins assists us to more deeply understand how daily awareness of where our feelings are is a springboard to success. I have used this awareness to discern what my predominant feeling or feelings are on a certain day and then set an intention to reach for a higher vibrational state if I am stuck in some negativity.

It turns out that as I get to a better feeling place my performance in my career is improved and my success becomes more of a flow.

Just yesterday I notice…

Sometimes things not going our way is a great gift in the end. In one of my positions in a wonderful nonprofit organization serving my community, I was in line for and planning on a promotion that would have given me more responsibility, money, and influence in a way that would have been deeply satisfying for me. I kept waiting and waiting for it to happen, and watched the original timeline come and go. It gradually dawned on me that my CEO did not intend to honor the pathway for me at the organ…

We live in a culture that is very goal oriented and even encourages workaholic behavior. U.S. workers get an average of ten paid leave days a year which includes all federal holidays (compared to 20 - 30 in Europe).This is the second lowest in the world and fifty percent of workers are not taking any vacation time. Even if we get some paid PTO we may be in an environment where we are expected to work long hours and be available after hours. The lack of vacation and downtime shows up as enormous …

When I was in the process of buying my home, there was a point at which things got very delayed because the current owners lived in another city and there were four of them and they had to agree on some things and coordinate digital signing of documents. I was starting to feel frustrated and some fear was creeping in because I knew this was a home I could thrive in.

I have learned to monitor when negative emotions start to take over and I immediately sat down and wrote out an intention that dec…

We are now in that delicious time of darkness and more time indoors. This can also be a beautiful time of going deep within ourselves to discover what we are longing for and wanting to create as the cycle turns soon to more light and a new year. The winter solstice on December 21 and the days leading up to it and after is the perfect time to discern what your inner wisdom is revealing about the coming year of 2024.

We are co-creators with the life energy that powers everything. As we declare wh…

We live in a time of breathtaking change and challenge, and therapists are reporting an uptick in anxiety. Paradoxically, this is the best time ever to shake off overwhelm, get quiet, and tune into what might be possible in our lives, our careers, our organizations, our country, and globally. This is because upheaval creates new openings and opportunities.

Creativity, innovation, and most importantly vision have never been more needed.

Being a visionary leader is not dependent on circumstances…

Sometimes things feel hard because they aren't moving fast enough, and we don't see our desires manifesting or feel we aren't getting the results we want at our job or in our business. And sometimes events move so fast, and we feel helpless to tell the direction they are moving in, that we get scared. We often label that chaos.

Chaos can appear at any level but can be most disconcerting when our work feels overwhelming, unmanageable, or is taking too much of our life energy. 

But what is chaos…

I have the great good fortune of living in Albuquerque, NM where the largest balloon festival in the world takes place every year. There are a lot of factors that led to this, but the high desert weather is very well suited to balloon launches in the early morning hours at the beginning of fall. During the festival, which spans eight days, the skies are often filled with balloons and going out to the field where they launch is magical (see the photo from last October). As I experience the balloo…