When we think of entrepreneurs, often we think of those innovative folks who are willing to risk and step outside their comfort zone in order to attain some higher vision.  I was thinking about this as we officially begin National Entrepreneurship Week. While lunching with my friend, solopreneur/photographer Peggy Kelsey (www.kelseys.net), she told me about […]

Another area where I sometimes catch myself auto-piloting is in relationships. It’s so easy to run on what we think we know about someone else, based on past history, rather than really seeing them in the moment.
I find this sometimes happens when my daughters come home from school. One of them typically walks in a […]

These “auto-pilots” comes up again and again, don’t they? So does the reminder message that change really does begin when we start observing where we do things automatically. By tuning in to where we react (versus choose a response) the most, we can get a quick snapshot of what’s in the way. When we stop […]

This morning as I was pouring my tea, my mind was whirring with all the things that I wanted to get done in the next hour.  I had a headache and a general sense of fatigue was growing, but I kept pushing.
It also popped in my mind that I wanted a muffin. Perhaps even a […]

Today was all about output. The last three weeks, in fact. All this creative energy harvesting has left me with an all-day-outside kind of tired. At first, it just hung on me, pulling me toward horizontal surfaces. Then it crawled inside me and began to fog my thinking. I could have auto-piloted into push-through mode […]