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How High are You Willing to Raise the Bar?

January 16, 2014 | by | Comments Off on How High are You Willing to Raise the Bar?

“If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you’re stuck and you don’t know how to rise, don’t look outside yourself. Look inside. Don’t let your fears keep you mired in the crowd. Abolish your fears and raise your commitment level to the point of no return, and I guarantee you that the Champion Within will burst forth to propel you toward victory.” ~ Bruce Jenner Does it make you cringe when someone asks you what you are doing to raise the bar in your career or your life? If you are anything like
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Categories: Blog, Career Transition, Dreams, Goals, and Home Page Recent Posts.
Tags: career, Inspiring Work, New Career, and Self Discovery.

Quit Making New Year’s Resolutions and Do This Instead

December 30, 2013 | by | Comments Off on Quit Making New Year’s Resolutions and Do This Instead

Context is the freedom to be.  Context is space.  It has no form, no place in time; it allows form and time…Once you create a context, that context then generates a process in which the content – the forces and circumstances – reorder and align themselves with the context. ~ Werner Erhard I love this time of year, not just because of the holidays, but because it’s a wonderful time to pause and reflect about how the past year has gone – what worked, what didn’t work, and what you would like to do differently. No, you don’t need to wait
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Categories: Blog and Goals.
Tags: goals, jump start, and New Year's Resolutions.

Dancing with Your Dreams is Downright Sexy!

December 5, 2013 | by | Comments Off on Dancing with Your Dreams is Downright Sexy!

Someone with their feet planted firmly on the ground has no hope of reaching the stars.” ~ Kelsey Dun Humans have the gift of being able to gaze into the future with wonder, delight, excitement and curiosity. We have the ability to dance with all manner of dreams and possibilities. It’s too bad this gift is often “de-geniused” early in our lives. A friend says that dancing with your dreams is like going “shoe shopping in the Catalog of the Universe.” What a fun analogy for what dreaming is all about. Trying things on. Looking to see what fits and
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Categories: Blog, Dreams, and Home Page Recent Posts.

Twelve Thanksgiving Reflections on Gratitude

November 28, 2013 | by | Comments Off on Twelve Thanksgiving Reflections on Gratitude

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ~ W. T. Purkiser Thanksgiving is upon us. There is so much to be grateful for this year I thought I’d list a few things using the word Thanksgiving as my inspiration. T – Trust I’m thankful for a seminar where I learned that we can trust everyone to be exactly how they are and exactly how they are not. What that means to me is that if there is someone in your life who has demonstrated they are not trustworthy
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Categories: Blog, Conscious Living, and Home Page Recent Posts.
Tags: gratitude.

How to Embrace Your Leadership Qualities

November 22, 2013 | by | Comments Off on How to Embrace Your Leadership Qualities

Instead of looking for a great leader, we are in an era where each of us needs to find the great leader in ourselves. ~ Werner Erhard How often do you stop to think about great leadership qualities? You may think about it in terms of leaders you admire. But do you think about your own leadership qualities? I recently attended an excellent leadership course. It took us in a different direction when it comes to examining outstanding leadership qualities. Rather than talking about the doing of leadership, we spent two days inquiring about what it takes to be a leader.
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Categories: Blog, Conscious Living, Home Page Recent Posts, and Sexy Second Act.
Tags: Leadership Qualities.

Authentic Conversations Make a Difference

October 30, 2013 | by | Comments Off on Authentic Conversations Make a Difference

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.  ~ Mother Theresa Having authentic conversations can be tough. Not only is it challenging, it requires you to be vulnerable and transparent. Showing your vulnerable side may seem scarier than any Halloween Monster could ever be. But if you truly want to make a difference in your life and the lives of the people who matter to you, you have to be willing to open yourself up to having them. What is an authentic conversation? It’s not necessarily what you think it is. Rather than having authentic conversations, here’s what
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Categories: Blog, Conscious Living, and Home Page Recent Posts.
Tags: Authentic Conversations.

I’m Too Old to Change Careers

October 23, 2013 | by | Comments Off on I’m Too Old to Change Careers

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more and more so, an afternoon and evening worker. ~ G. Stanley Hall If you’re thinking you are a tired old dog and it’s too late for you to change careers, I get it. I used to think that way too. Whether you choose to change careers or a career change chooses you due to a layoff or some other craziness going on in today’s roller coaster world, demo-ing your life and rebuilding it is never easy. You may wonder, like
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Categories: Blog, Career Transition, Encore Career, Home Page Recent Posts, and Sexy Second Act.
Tags: career change, Career Transition, and Starting Over.

How Your Sexy Second Act Makes a Difference

October 2, 2013 | by | Comments Off on How Your Sexy Second Act Makes a Difference

 Turning up our light in the presence of those whose light is dim becomes the difference that makes the difference.  ~ Eric Allenbauth This isn’t what you think. It’s not an article about making a difference by running off and joining the Peace Corps or volunteering, or working at a non-profit. Those are great things to do if you are wired that way. But if you’re not, it won’t work. Instead of turning up your light, it will dim your light. How Do You Turn Up Your Light? Gaining clarity about what you love doing is what makes a difference
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Categories: Blog, Home Page Recent Posts, and Sexy Second Act.

Starting Over Doesn’t Feel Sexy – Start Over Anyway

September 11, 2013 | by | Comments Off on Starting Over Doesn’t Feel Sexy – Start Over Anyway

“Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.”  ― Nick Hornby Starting over, or starting anything new, is a lot like launching a rocket into space. Most of the energy is spent just getting off the ground.  You have to pull yourself out of the gravitational force of doing things the way they’ve always been done. You have to leave the “solid ground” of what you know and be willing to launch yourself into uncharted and unexplored territory. Starting over may
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Categories: Blog, Career Transition, Home Page Recent Posts, and Sexy Second Act.
Tags: Starting Over.

Designing Your Sexy Second Act Means Saying “I Can! I Will!”

September 4, 2013 | by | Comments Off on Designing Your Sexy Second Act Means Saying “I Can! I Will!”

Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.–Jackie Joyner-Kersee There are so many thoughts running around in my head after watching Diana Nyad achieve her lifelong dream – on her FIFTH try – to be the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida outside of a shark tank. I love that every time she failed she checked in with herself to ask “Do I want this? Can I do this?” And I love that her heart said “I Can! I Will!” It would seem that the last question on her mind was whether or not
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Categories: Blog, Career Transition, Home Page Recent Posts, and Life Purpose.
Tags: Diana Nyad.