Burn Your Boats

Despite our best laid plans and intentions, sometimes things just don’t go our way. It’s the reason we have backup plans and Plan B’s. It’s why we’re researching our next…

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Understanding and acceptance are not the same thing

  It’s impossible to go throughout life without experiencing loss, rejection, failure, heartbreak and adversity on some level. Stressful situations happen to everyone.   Some things happen suddenly. We’re heading…

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Looking Back, Beginning Again

  Towards the end of each year, I find myself in a reflective state where I look back at all the events that have transpired and brought me to the…

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Are You “Too Busy”?

  I teach somewhere in the ballpark of 15 classes a week (if I’m helping with class coverage that number is easily closer to 20), in addition to writing and…

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Where I End and You Begin

  “Yes” – it’s one simple word, but it’s a word that holds amazing power in our life.   Yes to doing the extra work…even if it leads you closer…

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The Most Important Non-Negotiable

  Last week I felt as if I was a walking timebomb. A combination of feeling rundown, exhausted and physically sore left me wondering if I would suddenly collapse teaching…

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I waited for the truck…

  The Universe wants to be noticed…and heard. Problem is, we aren’t always listening.   Did you ever get a gut feeling to do something and not do it? Have…

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Abandon hope of a better past

  Over the last week in California, something shifted for me. It wasn’t a singular action that spurred this shift in consciousness, nor was it the trip itself. But, removing…

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Are You Stuck in the Middle?

  It’s no accident that Dante began The Inferno, his allegorical journey through Hell, “Midway upon the journey of life / I found myself within a forest dark”.   In…

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