empowerment | Life by Design 3/3

You're Invited!

An embossed invitation on linen paper arrives at your door. You’ve been invited! You’re boss invites you and the team to his house for a...

Was it Somebody or Nobody?

If you live with children, you also live with two other mysterious people — Somebody and Nobody. Somebody always did it and Nobody ever...

Failure Can Be the Best Option

In the middle of this stay-at-home order, I am attempting to do something I’ve never done before. It is frustrating. I’m not that good at...

The Secret to an Extra $10,000

Recently, a financial advisor friend of mine posted this question: What does it take to waste $10,000 a year? What ever the answer was I...

4 Questions to Overcome Obstacles

I met with a coach today who took me through her annual preparation for the new year. There were six steps, third step — dreaming, fourth...

4 Steps to get out of a Funk

Ever feel like you are in a funk? On the edge of a funk? Or maybe you are all the way down in the funk and wish you could be up on the...

Stop the Production!

We live in a thoroughly edited and completely Photoshopped world. Everything we see and hear leaves us comparing ourselves to a cinema...

Seagulls without a Sea?

This Spring I’ve been walking the mile and a half to my office in the morning, at lunch, and in the evening. It’s good for my body, mind,...

Powering Your World

I was in the 6th grade (that time in your life when we have reached our optimal emotional maturity), sitting at the kitchen table...

Ditch The Rules

Rules. We all live by rules. Arrive at work on time. Stop at red lights. Wash your own dish. Rules make the world go round -- rules in...

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