Yup. You read that title right. You definitely shouldn’t be listening to me. Why, you ask? Well, would you listen to someone who screws things up? Would you take advice from someone who has made her fair share of bad decisions? (I’m hoping that by now you kinda get the direction I’m going with this, […]
Writing
Freedom (and why it isn’t free)
Given that yesterday was a celebration of the life and teachings of Dr Martin Luther King Jr, I started thinking about the concept of freedom, and what it means to me. (Yes, his work encompassed so much more, but that will be for another day!) Like so many things in my life, my internal concept […]
Daybreak (or: here comes the sun)
Last week I took a look back over 2011, focusing on the positive changes that occurred. This week, I want to look ahead to the coming year, to state my intention and start to focus on what’s next. When I was out in Portland last summer for the World Domination Summit, I was part of […]
Sayonara, Sucker (or: looking back, moving forward)
Goodbye, 2011! Sayonara. See you… well, I won’t see you again. I don’t know about you, dear readers, but 2011 was quite a year for yours truly. It was a year that held some of the darkest days of my life, but my intent is not to wallow in the past. Life is too short, […]
There Is Only Now (or: stop obsessing and stalling and…)
Two weeks ago, I talked about intention – telling the universe what you want and setting yourself up for opportunities to come. Today, I want to go one step further to make sure that we don’t get so hung up on the future and “should” that we forget to live in the now. How many […]
Australia (or: the Oz that never was)
One of the stories that I end up telling on a fairly regular basis when I meet someone new is about the time that I almost ended up moving halfway across the world, and how that *not* happening changed my life. You see, back in 2007 my now-ex husband was working as a software engineer […]