Today’s power words from the Show Up! Journal. I’ve said this to clients multiple times. I’ve said this in presentations and workshops. It doesn’t stop being true. If you’ve given everything, and it still hasn’t worked, and you feel you’re done? Walk away. If it doesn’t feel right, walk away. If you can look at…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words. Yep. We can all get down on ourselves about how little we’ve accomplished. Or, worse, we can compare what we have accomplished to what everyone else seems to have accomplished. It’s especially hard when we decide to compare ourselves to people who are obviously farther along than we are….
Today’s Show Journal power words. In every second of every day, we make decisions. We choose how we will be, what we will do, and what we will say. In each of those instances, we decide, consciously or subconsciously, whether we will show courage or fear. A fear response might make us feel safer in…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words (I love my morning journal free-write. I always learn so much from my subconscious. ?). I have long believed that stress is the root of all evil. And, if stress is the root of all evil, curiosity is the root of all success. Something has to spark us. Something…
Morning meditation. I spent some time this morning meditating on the goals depicted in this sculpture I created. I love symbols and totems. I use them as concrete touchstones of my goals, And I visualize those successes as I meditate on the piece. This artwork represents my goals of writing, music, and teaching. I teach…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words: I spent my free-write thinking about whether or not I’m too old to begin a new chapter, new phase of my life. I spent the last few decades working on projects I loved. But, they were all too diffuse. Over the last year, I’ve changed my focus. Actually, it’s…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words: “Decide You Deserve It,” is the name of my new book. I realized this morning that while I’m writing this book, the words to me exemplify power from within. Before we do anything else, before we make any choices, before we act or take step one towards a goal,…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words: I love the free-write portion of my journaling in the morning. The realizations sometimes come fast. And sometimes they knock me on the noggin and go, “Yeah, we’ve been trying to tell you this for the last 35 years.” The temptation to burn out rather than fade away can…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words. Each of us is an artist. We don’t have to hold a paintbrush or a guitar to be one. We can create art in how we think, what we say, and what we do. As long as these things come from that passionate place inside each of us, that…
Today’s Show Up! Journal Power words. Sometimes, I feel like I am trying to ram down sturdy oak door with my head. And after a while, I have to realize that trying just gives me a headache. So, if I step away, if I regroup, if I stop trying to open this one door, how…