My challenge to you: up your "thank you" game and take it to the next level! Saying "thank you" is a true double win: it feels awesome for you, the person expressing thanks, and it feels equally awesome for the person you're showering with gratitude. We all, myself included, were taught to …
Self Care
What Do You Need To Be Happy?
If you adjust your frame of mind, you might discover that everything you need to be happy is, in fact, right in front of you. If you'd asked me back in April what I needed to be happy in life, my answer most likely would have included some (if not all) of the following: House parties with …
Avoid Regret Once and For All
Three ways to avoid decisions you'll regret later on - once and for all. It's painful, isn't it? That moment when you're kicking yourself yet again wondering why oh why oh WHY did I say yes to this? And yet as downright crappy as that feeling is (and we all know it well, myself included), …
One Question to Change Your Day
This one question will turn your whole day around. Have you ever noticed that what happens in the first 20 minutes of your morning sets the tone and direction for your entire day? If you stub your toe getting out of bed and are presented with bad news shortly after, as much as we hate to …
5 Remedies for Zoom Exhaustion
Without a doubt, one of the saving graces amidst this pandemic has been the fact that we have the technology to stay connected to one another virtually. We are able to both see and hear our loved ones and colleagues across the globe without having to take a single step outside of our living rooms. …
Two Very Important Lists
During my first few weeks of quarantine, an unexpected voice kept presenting itself again and again in my mind: I don't know if I want to return to the world. And while I told myself that this was probably just my innate introverted side talking, the solitude-loving part of me that was …
COVID-19 and Nothing but Time
Create a loving relationship with time, and you'll always have enough. An Unsettling Realization And so it was at last in that moment, at 7:25 am on a Monday morning, pajama-clad and curled up in my home office reading chair on the second floor gazing out my window at the squirrels below, that I …
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Self Care During COVID-19
In order to weather this storm called COVID-19, we entrepreneurs need to first and foremost take care of ourselves. Only then will we be able to rise to the challenges that lay ahead. Speakers' events have been canceled. Physical therapists have been forced to cancel all of their sessions. Bars …
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4 Signs it’s Time to “Bless and Release” a Client
We've all had that dream client - you know, the one who makes you think "Why can't they all be like this?" They are always pleasant, appreciative, and seem to love virtually everything we do. And conversely, we've all had that difficult client - you know, the one who makes you think "Really? …
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Four Ways to Find Flow
Flow is a "mental state in which a person is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus and enjoyment in an activity, characterized by complete absorption and a resulting loss in one's sense of space and time" (Wikipedia). When I was a little girl, one of my favorite things to do at …