Do you ever wonder why it is that the goals you set for yourself don’t seem to like getting met? Is it possible those goals aren’t clear enough to aim at? Goals are often set at unrealistic levels, setting us up for failure before we even start. As a coach I work with goal-setting every day and I’ve found the common mistakes people make when they believe they are creating goals can be easily fixed with the SMART goal method.

Helpful or harmful? You get to decide which thoughts earn space in your mind. There’s a lot of extraneous thinking going on out there. Worries about things we can’t control or change. Nasty thoughts about other people that don’t fix anything. Taking responsibility for the choices of others whom we can’t control, fix or change.

You’ve probably heard how calming yoga is. Someone in your life, maybe even you, has said how good she feels after yoga. How relaxed, ready to meet the world, grounded, and centered she feels. Did you know there’s science behind that? Breathwork and yoga postures (asanas) can calm the sympathetic nervous system, a branch of the autonomic nervous system that becomes active during times of stress.

I started and stopped while writing this at least 3 times. How do I write about women’s rights in a blog format? I was afraid of offending or wimping out. This in itself is a symptom of my own cultural conditioning. So, here we go…

How many times do you think you’ve said, “I don’t have enough time!”? I’m guessing you’re like the rest of us and the answer is, a lot. How often has that really been true, though? As I was writing this, I was going to be generous and say it’s probably about 20% of the time.

Resentment is an ugly feeling. It poisons you, breeding hate and anger. Do not assume resentment is necessary. When you feel resentful it means you feel someone is taking or has taken something from you. Figure out what that is and now you have something to work with. Until then you will behave as if you are a victim to your feelings, and no one wants that.

What a strange word: Forgive. For the longest time I didn’t feel like I understood what it meant. That’s not to say I wasn’t capable of forgiving I simply felt the word got thrown around a little too much without people really understanding what they were saying.

In decluttering your life, you will come across things you’ve spent money on that will be hard to let go of because of that money you spent. I came across this phrase recently, “The tyranny of sunk costs.” It’s meant to describe how we get more and more attached to things the more we spend. Then we become trapped by our stuff and our spent money.

Whew! 2020. Am I right? Yes, this has been one heck of a year. You don't need me to get into it. You were there, you know what happened. The first of the year is a time seen as an opportunity for new beginnings. It’s a nice clean day to hit the reset button.

I’ve been socking away money for as long as I’ve been making it. The summer of 1985, before 6 grade, I made about $50 picking potato bugs off of my stepdad's precious potato crop (we do love our potatoes in our family). He had no idea how tenacious I was going to be at 10 cents for an immature bug and 25 cents for a mature one. I was out there every day with my little plastic container filled with soapy water to dunk the little buggers in and bring them back to him for proof.