Izolda Trakhtenberg, Storyteller

Playwright, Author, Director, Podcaster

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Category: goals

  • Have faith. 

    Today’s Show Up! Journal power words from my morning free-write.  Today it’s about having faith. What you decide will happen often does if you are willing to be dogged in its pursuit. It’s when you waffle, hesitate, or second-guess yourself that you get in trouble.  Have faith but don’t be foolhardy. Your goal must have…

  • Overheard – What I Learn Through Listening

    I am passionately curious about people. I love learning what motivates them, what challenges them, and what inspires them. So, I listen. I listen in my coaching practice. I listen during my workshops and seminars, and I shamelessly listen to conversations around me when I am working at coffee shops or when I’m walking down…

  • If not this door, another door … How to listen to that universal voice

    Whew! the universe just keeps nudging us in the right direction, doesn’t it? Sometimes, it’s driving and hitting all the right lights. Sometimes, it’s having events that you didn’t really want to do get canceled at the last minute therefore freeing you up to go do what you really want and ought to be doing…

  • Go at your own pace but show up.

    Some people run marathons. Some people can bench press 250 pounds. Today, I am just happy that I was able to do 24 angled push-ups (three sets of eight) in my clap push-ups challenge and walk 2 miles without a cane. A couple of weeks ago I could do no more than three sets of five…

  • Evaluation: Or How I Use My Time

    Under the heading of: “If you can’t say something nice…” I just deleted a comment/critique of a divination tool a friend had posted. I think the concept for the tool is super cool. I think the execution is too general, pedantic, and tells you *exactly* what you already know (or should already know, like, “you…

  • Play *your* game, not theirs. (Keeping focus while in competition)

    Play your game, not theirs. I just wrote that in a text, and the more I think about it, the more I believe in the inherent wisdom of that statement. When athletes engage in their sport, sometimes they let their opponents get inside their heads. They stop competing in the manner that is best suited…