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. 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…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words: I believe that every emotion we experience is, at its heart, a form of energy (think electrical impulses in the brain). That energy can be used to fuel emotions (like fear, like jealousy, like bitterness), or it can be transformed. Energy in its pure state is just energy. It…
Today’s power words from my Show Up! Journal free-write. It’s physics. The more force we exert in any one direction the more vulnerable we become from other directions. So, it makes sense to not be rigid or too regimented in any aspect of our lives. Whether it is the way we think, the way we…
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about risk-taking. I’ve also been doing a lot of thinking about finally, finally following your dreams. So many of us accept the mantle of responsibility too early. And then we wear it, all day, every day, for the rest of our lives. But what about those dreams? When…
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…
Today’s Show Up! Journal free-write power words. I don’t buy that whole, “It’s the journey not the destination,” thing. I can relax and enjoy the ride a whole lot better if I’m not driving around in circles. Granted, I might see things from a different perspective each time on the circle, and I might learn…
Here are today’s Show Up! Journal power words. I love that these words came to me during the fee-write. I aim to experience or learn something new every day. Sometimes it is as banal as driving somewhere via a new route. Sometimes it’s the inspiration for a new book. Whatever the spark, I relish the…