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Are You Tending to Your Gardens?

Are You Tending to Your Gardens?

We have many gardens in life: relationship with God, family, work, business, friends, ourselves, hobbies, etc. Like a vegetable garden, if we are to keep out weeds, we have to regularly tend to our personal gardens. Becoming too busy or distracted invites weeds. Weeds...

Make Deadlines Your Friends

Make Deadlines Your Friends

We often feel that deadlines cramp our style.  At other times we are bothered when we miss them. Sometimes we don’t really care about them. Deadlines are all around us.  Deadlines related to employment, school, auditions, rent payment, mortgage payment, car payment,...

The “O” Word

The “O” Word

Some of us are afraid to say it. Some of us can’t stop talking about it. Some of us don’t recognize it when it is happening to us. What is it? It is the “O” word. The word is “Overwhelm.” The definition of overwhelm in Merriam-Webster dictionary is “to...

Life Coaching vs. Counseling/Therapy

Life Coaching vs. Counseling/Therapy

Many people confuse life coaching with counseling/therapy. Dealing with significant mental, emotional, or psychological problems is the role of a counselor/therapist, often focusing on the past and on diagnosis. Life coaching is a partnering with clients in a...