Success and life balance can be a challenging twosome for a lot of entrepreneurs. When woman come for success/wellness solutions, some common ground can be seen in many of their visions, but is more often found in the challenges they face on their journey. These shared trials often blanket a closet full of outdated beliefs, […]

Stress for success stories come in all flavors, and at any hour. I was just slipping into bed after a late movie on Saturday when the phone rang. As the ring pierced the silence in the house, I thought of two things: it’s either a wrong number or something’s happened. Something had happened – and […]

Sometimes we may need to help a party come to a close, and sometimes they just end. This time it was both.
I recently chose to put off my visit to San Francisco, a favorite place of mine. A large part of my trip was to be spent with my brother, but his plans changed and […]

Last week I found myself trying to locate my morning energy when I awoke. I didn’t feel refreshed for several days in a row. Then I recognized the feeling- it was adrenaline abuse. I looked back over the last few days and knew I’d kept “pushing” throughout each day.
I had been operating from a belief […]

Entrepreneurial women step through the multitasking doorway on a regular basis. We show up to our work, our sick children, our deadlines and our promises to ourselves- all in a typical day. There are times we truly cannot see an alternative to multitasking. But if we routinely auto-pilot into multitasking, we may find that we’ve […]

My dreams are the only places I ever have a perfectly neat office. For years I tried a variety of organizing methods to create the same picture in my awake life. Sometimes they would “take” for a while. (Read: I was reminded my desktop had lovely wood grain.) It never lasted.
My best run was many […]

For years I suffered from organization envy. I’d spot those women with long polished fingernails who, in a moment, could retrieve anything from anywhere. Want the name of someone they met 10 years earlier? No problem, they had it in their “5+ years Contact File.” Wondering where their notes are from an idea they had […]

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 […]

Interesting comment, Valerie. I think for me, priorities come up when I’m planning my day. As entrepreneurial women, and for me someone who works from home (or the nearby coffee shop!), we have so much choice. Should I do the laundry, or make some business calls? Should I squeeze in exercise, or plan a meeting, […]

Today I spoke with a client about her priorities. Not so unusual on a coaching call perhaps, but what is unusual is how much this subject is coming up all around me lately. With friends, my children, and clients- it’s like a theme song running in the background of the last two weeks. Okay, I […]