The CHI Five-Step Success Process. Write down five things you love doing. Circle the ones you’re really good at. Figure out which of these will allow you to serve the most people. Tell your story and find the people who want what you offer. Go all in on that one and don’t let anything stop…
How we speak of our dead to ease the grieving process I’m thinking about death this morning. Or rather, I’m thinking about a convention we use to talk about someone who has died. After the person, or a beloved critter, dies we start referring to them in the past tense. More to the point, we…
What It Takes To Make Your Life Work Isn’t it funny, how as you get older you learn so much more about what it takes to make your life run. You figure out the morning routine that will keep you healthiest. You learn what foods work best with your insides. Then, you also determine what your…
This picture isn’t perfect. That much is true. And I can obsess over that fact or I can celebrate that I captured an instant, a fleeting moment in time where a beautiful swallowtail butterfly settled on a flower on a warm late summer morning. ? Isn’t that how it is with so many things? Instead…
Pivot: How to get there and what to do once you do The pivot point, the point at which we change direction, can change our lives. In today’s Self-Made Creative podcast episode, I explore what leads up to it, what we can do while we’re on it, and what happens once we change direction. Have…
Every single day, do at least one thing that scares you. If you want to write, then write. Get a piece of paper and put down … something. It can be “holy sh*t, I have no idea what to say. This sucks.” That’s ok. They’re words on a page, and they are a beginning. If…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words: this is what I wrote today. If you’re heading in the wrong direction, stop, close your eyes, and listen. The guidance is there. The path is there, but you need to listen for it, see it, and then embrace it. But that takes courage. It takes a lot of…
Today’s power words from my Show Up! Journal free-write. Like many of us, I often set myself insurmountable goals. Or, allow me to clarify, they seem insurmountable. But, I keep at it. That’s all there is. I think that’s all any of us can do. We keep going. We keep showing up. We keep working…