Intentional and deliberate, that is where this video blog started. I just finished teaching a leadership course this morning and I put out there that I wanted to put out a video. Ugh!!! Now I was asking them to hold me accountable! I certainly can't ask them to do something without me following through! So here it is and it is good... but I intend to grow and get better! The two tips I share in this video are about putting the important things first and focusing on your gr

How can this be? Have I actually - made the decision - to have my life turn out the way it is? I can’t come up with any other answer then I think I may have and not realized it. The truth is that every choice I have ever made has brought me here at this moment in front of this computer. Every choice you have made brought you in front of this blog, reading this message. And I am writing this blog for a reason, because I want more and I want to give more. And so now I hav

I was tasked the other day, in my writing group, to write about my life - The life I want to create that I don't need a vacation from. I shouldn't have been surprised about what I came up with, but I was. My new pals, confidants, supporters and valued friends in this group were not surprised and that filled me up in a way that I can't describe. They believed in the truth of my dream. They believed in me. They believed that I was already living out the core of it. I love th

Last year at about this time my husband and I bought this trailer. Within a few weeks I posted that I had overcome a limiting belief of mine - that I couldn't drive this beast around. Okay so I won't rehash the past blog but the jist is that I had been holding on to the belief I coudn't. Yet I over came that limiting belief and proved it many times last summer. I hauled it onto a ferry, then all the way across the state and back with just me and my kids. I became good at ba

I was walking around Green Lake the other day with a friend. A new friend who I hadn't seen in a few months and we had loads to catch up on. As we finished the 3-mile loop I asked her if she had to go to the bathroom because I was about to explode! Yes she did so we kept trekking in the rain another 1/2 mile to the closest one. We were so busy talking the entire loop I hadn't even noticed I had to go. Until I couldn't hold it any more! This isn't a story about me peeing m

As I was actually writing down the words "expectation drives belief" I looked out my window and I witnessed the two "neighborhood" eagles soaring in the sky. They must have a nest nearby because I see them often. Everytime it gives me a moment of pause. And this time it did the same. I have come to expect to see them often and after a moment I return to my journal. I continue writing...."I expected to have this life I live, I have always believed it would be so, yet I am

I had this vision. My life contained inside a box. In that box is all I love and cherish. There is also society and its expectations. A large extended family with strong opinions and wills who I love so very deeply. People who believe in God and people I love who don't. It is my life, my world in this box. It's a good life, comfortable and secure. Yet I feel something deep inside, a burning desire to be and do more. I am being called and I am listening but I am scared.

I've been working on my timeline. My life timeline, the day I was born up to this current year. I simply started with writing out the year I moved. Then schooling. Then jobs. Then relationships. Marriage. Kids. Then major traumas. I made it simple. I worked from the easy facts to the major emotional shifts. You get the picture... I just tried to write down anything that came to me. As I reflected I realized all the times in my life I have persevered. I mean seriously

Martin Luther King didn't say he had a goal he said he had a DREAM. When I read this recently in a blog by Pam Grout, I felt a deep sensation of a truth, an aha moment. We don't get excited about a goal, we get excited about the manifestation of our dreams.... just listen to the difference as you say out loud "I have a goal" vs. "I HAVE A DREAM". At one point in my life I felt a need, a huge desire to reconnect to the inner determination and drive that I seemed to have mispl

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live. - Anna Sweeney We all have our own unique definition of success for ourselves because we are each unique. When I finally defined what success meant to me on my own terms I began finally seeing the road map to make it a reality. It seems like a simple thing but have you defined your own unique definition of what success means to you and only you? Have you felt the same? I re