Journal with Me: Share Your Love
As I mentioned last week, I love writing a letter to celebrate someone special, especially the young people in our lives. I want to give you some structure that might help get you started, but please know that whatever you write, if it’s from your heart, will be...
My Favorite Way to Celebrate New Steps
What does September mean to you? September makes me remember the frisson of excitement – and nervousness – for school to begin. New pencils, new shoes, new teacher. Even in college and grad school, September meant change, transition and new opportunities. Did you feel...
Journal with Me: Get Curious
In last week’s blog we explored how to navigate through change by building a compass through what you value. But there’s another tool that can help your compass work better. Knowing what provides delight in your day, what weighs you down and noticing what’s missing...
Can Your Internal Compass Help You Navigate Through Change?
“The one constant in our life is change.” —Dan Gilbert, Professor of Psychology and author. It feels like things are changing fast again, but in reality change is always occuring. Most of the time we don’t notice change happening as it is slow and subtle, but...
Journal with Me: Innovate
In last week’s blog we explored the idea of tweaking your day to tilt it away from what drains you and towards what energizes and engages you. (Read that post for ideas around shifting your day towards more energy and engagement.) But often we get stuck in the mode of...
Tweak Your Day, Love Your Day
Do you ever end your day and can’t remember what you did from morning until night, but you know you’re tired? I’m not talking about amnesia. I’m wondering about those days that end and you can’t point to anything you’ve done that really matters to you or that you...
Journal with Me: Find the Gift
In last week’s blog I introduced you to my chorus of critics and also my chief sage — Grandma Helen. I mentioned how I now consider one of the most humiliating experiences of my career as a gift. (Read that post for more on finding your sage or inner wisdom.) One of...
Who Are You Listening To?
Have you ever experienced a tough situation, or felt conflict with another person, or screwed up? The answer is most likely yes. We all encounter blocks in our paths, people who we find difficult and situations that are hard. But when that happens, do you hear voices...
Journal with Me: What Do YOU Want?
“If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? If not now, when?” - Rabbi Hillel Last week I wrote about my birthday ritual of looking back over my year. You can read that here. Were you able to take some time to reflect back on the last 90 days or year? Today I...
Why Reflection Helps You Love Your Day
Next week is my birthday. My family jokes that July is my Birthday Month, they’re not wrong. What does that mean? In addition to planning my actual day, I repeat various meaningful experiences, like walking to a beautiful sand bar that can only be reached at very low...