Empowerment Category

How Monty Python Helped Me Find Balance

I really, really enjoyed one of Robert Holden’s recent daily messages. He talks about how Monty Python’s sketch about the 100-yard dash for people with no sense of direction is a wonderful metaphor for our mad-dash world. Many of us are going through life as fast as we can, in many directions.  Whether we realize […]

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Dial Up Your Life with Your Snooze Button

Do you want more out of life? More abundance, more joy, more prosperity? Maybe you feel like something is missing. Or perhaps you already feel incredibly fulfilled, and you’re looking to level up. There is a simple way to immediately begin your no-fail path to prosperity: Embody gratitude. This is not your Grandma’s “Be grateful […]

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Grand Adventures

The final episode in Season 3 of The History Channel’s Alone gave me a huge AHA. For those of you who may not know, it’s a solo survival contest. This season, the last one standing made it 87 days surviving by themselves in the wilderness of Patagonia. 87 days. No support, no partner. On the […]

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Tell Your Own Story

A few months ago a friend shared that a great gift her mother gave years ago to her surviving children was that she had pre-written her own eulogy. Wait. What?!? “Oh, yeah,” she said. “At that time, with all of us siblings trying to figure out all of those funeral details? Mom wasn’t honored in […]

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From To-Do to Ta-Daa!

I am a list-maker. This is partly because I enjoy physically writing things out on notepaper, partly because it nourishes my organizational nature, and mostly because it tames the incessant tornado in my brain. If I get it out and on paper, then it stops swirling in my head.     However, in loving to write […]

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