Today’s Show Up! Journal power words. I’m sitting after having taken care of my morning leg massage, that allows me to walk, and thinking it’s important. It’s important to take care of ourselves. If we don’t, who will? Vitality and Health are two of the ingredients that give us drive and purpose. If we are…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words are a reminder to myself. In the middle of June, I set myself a goal that by the end of July, I would book one of my latest workshop offerings with a company or an organization. I took the last month to work on my website, my presentation, and…
Today’s Show Up! Power words: you’ve got this. If you “suddenly” level up, if you’re playing in a new league, it might be jarring. But you have to remember you worked for this. No progress is sudden. You planned. You acted. You did things to get you to this point. Sure, the stakes are higher,…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words: these are it. After meditating and writing about the idea of success, these are what I came up with. First, we must breathe and breathe deeply. Accessing our breath allows us to build and extend our patience not to mention oxygenating our blood and maintaining all our systems. Remember,…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words: I’m not trying to be flippant. It’s really the way I feel today. At last night’s Hood College “Tell Better Stories,” workshop, a number of the students were concerned about having to make peace with doing jobs they disliked. And I said, “I realize that there are economic concerns….
Is life handing you a bowl of poop soup? Kvetch, complain, moan, whine, all you want. But do it to yourself and get it out of your system. And then? Go and do something about it. That’s how we fix things. We do it one step at a time. We do it by not giving up….
Today’s Show Up Journal power words: there’s really not much else to say about it. You are fantastic. You are amazing. You’re incredible. Now go and do.
It’s tempting, isn’t it, to try to do it all and to try to be all things to all people. But somehow that tactic never works. We are always left with that doubt that we didn’t do enough. And that is because we couldn’t do it. There was no way to live up to all…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words: isn’t it funny how the great conversationalists seldom speak? I think Dale Carnegie had it right. People engage with us when we are curious about them. So, the best way to be regarded as a great conversationalist and/or communicator is to be curious about the other person, to engage…