I took time today to be with that, even though it has been one of my busiest days this week. I sat down and took a long look at how I’ve been prioritizing lately and immediately changed some things in my planner. Let’s just say that next week will be a much better reflection of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

On a recent call with a client, I was reminded of yet another way we sometimes auto-pilot. This one can be hard to notice as it sneaks up on us while we walk down our positive growth path.
There we are, strolling along, alert for meaningful signs, patterns- -anything that may stretch our self-awareness- when “poof” [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]