When You Feel Like You’re Stumbling Through Life
I’m not a productivity expert, I can’t tell you how to block your time or choose which project to do first. In fact I often struggle with these types of decisions. But even if each day is not perfect, I’m ok if I feel that in general I know what I want and why. ...
Journal With Me: When do you feel most connected?
I believe that if I want to feel deep connection with others I need to be deeply connected to myself, who I am, and what I stand for or believe. That doesn’t mean I cannot be connected to people who don’t believe what I believe, in fact the opposite. When I know who I...
Three Things to Do When You Feel Lonely and Disconnected
Loneliness affects more than one-third of American adults. Older adults are particularly vulnerable, but adolescents, and especially freshmen in college, are some of the lonliest people in the U.S. And loneliness is the number one fear of young people today, including...
Journal with Me: Write Your Acknowledgements Page
Do you ever read the acknowledgements in books you read? Authors usually include their editor and other staff at their publisher, research assistants, publicists, writer friends who offered advice, booksellers who helped get the book into readers hands, and family for...
We Don’t Reach Our Dreams Alone
Do you ever watch awards shows? There’s who wins what … and then all the people they thank for helping them get there. I’m one of those people who reads the acknowledgements in books … again all the people who helped the author get the book out into the world. Not all...
Journal with Me: Find Your Flow
Have you ever found yourself losing track of time? I’m not talking about when you get stuck in your email inbox or mindlessly watch YouTube videos (although there’s nothing wrong with either of those). I’m talking about when you start doing something and...
Start with Your Why to Achieve Goals & Dreams
I don’t know about you, but I got at least a couple of dozen emails in my inbox about goals and planning for the new year (and the new decade). Many of them had great ideas and were helpful. So much has been written about resolutions and setting goals, but...
Journal with Me: What I Really Want
This time of year is a time of creating goals and plans and resolutions. I’m all for this, but so often we point ourselves toward what we think we should do instead of letting what’s really important guide us. We get bogged down in the logistics of our lives and the...
A Great New Year Starts with Looking Back
January is named for the Roman Janus, the god of beginnings and endings and transitions, and he’s often depicted with two faces, one turned to the future and the other to the past. The new year is a time to set goals for the future, but as we begin a new year, take...
Journal with Me: Where am I?
It’s December and as we approach the end of the year, I find myself reflecting. I ask myself questions like: What’s good in my life right now? What’s most challenging? What do I want most right now and in the rest of this year and next? What can I do to be more...
