How to Love Your Life More
Do you love your life? If you can respond with a rousing, “Hell yeah!”, congratulations. If you look at your life and feel like you should love it, that it looks good, or you kind of shrug and say, “We all have stuff to deal with,” you’re not alone. It may not feel...
Journal with Me: How Do You Live Your Values?
In last week's post, I encouraged you to connect your goals to what you value and what makes you feel alive and engaged and fulfilled. How? There’s a 3 step process in that post but here’s the short version: Write a list of experiences that made you feel alive,...
Do You Love Your Goals?
Did you get a bunch of emails in your inbox about resolutions, goals and planning for the new year? I did and many of them had great ideas and were helpful. Choosing goals can help motivate you to get things done, achieve what you want to achieve. But what if you...
Journal with Me: Feelings First, Then a Plan
It’s January, a time when we are encouraged to sit down and plan our goals for the year. So much has been written about resolutions and setting goals, but even if we really want to follow our resolutions or achieve our goals, we often fail. In fact, I recently read...
What Direction Do You Want to Take?
Happy New Year! It’s a new year. But what now? I have hope that things externally will change sometime this year, but there are things out of your control and mine that are still affecting our lives. What about internally, what about how you choose to live your life...
Journal with Me: My Favorite Things
I still remember seeing the Sound of Music in the theater as a little girl with my sister Lisa and my beloved Grandma Helen. It was April 1965, and I was 6. Maybe the memory is so strong because sitting next to my Grandma, my sister on the other side of her, was so...
Journal with Me: Wayfinding
Has 2020 left you feeling adrift or like you’ve lost your way? The usual milestones, rituals, traditions, and even some of our very favorite things no longer lead the way. You can get on back on track, no matter what happens in the world. Wayfinding is the ancient...
Look Back to Look Forward
Whose life are you living? That was the question I asked myself when I turned 30. I was a successful lawyer living in the beautiful city of San Francisco, married to a man I loved. I was happy. Yet I felt I was not fully living the life that I wanted. As a kid I was...
The Best Holiday Gift: Write a Letter to Connect
Stuck for holiday gift ideas? Feeling like so many people don’t need more stuff? Looking for something that replaces getting together this year? What if you could use your words to help another person feel how you want them to feel? That they are loved, cherished,...
Get Creative to Connect This Holiday Season
The holidays are likely to look different this year. Many of us will not be gathering for our usual celebrations this season. Maybe the idea of not traveling or trying to get to several houses feels like a relief. Maybe there are people you don’t mind not seeing. But...
