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...
Integrity

Integrity

I like Webster’s II New Riverside University Dictionary’s definition of integrity. It states that integrity is “firm adherence to a code or standard of values.” Do you know someone who lacks integrity? Whose walk does not match his talk? How do...
Vision

Vision

Then: Where do you see yourself in the future? Where do you want to be? By when? What will that look like? Simply put, this is your vision – where you are headed. You may have a specific weight, career, amount of money, relationship status that you want to...