Going on vacation

Tomorrow I am leaving for a two week vacation in Brazil.  My husband has a conference and after the meetings are over we will spend another week traveling around.  This time I have decided not to bring my laptop and continue working on my business.  Although one of my colleagues seriously questioned my decision I [...]

Relationships and Change

Last weekend I spent three days in Las Vegas in an immersion internet marketing course taught by Jeanette Cates and Connie Ragen Green. With their superb help I was able to set up a membership site and learned how to put up a product for sale.  You can find my book:  Rekindle Your Relationship  at [...]

Increase Your Self-Confidence

I love quotes because they succinctly capture  truisms.   Here is one by Rosalyn Carter that I like “If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can’s accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.  In those few words she sums up that the [...]

Grow Your Boundaries

I am frequently asked “what in the world are boundaries?”  This comes from people who have heard that it is important to have boundaries but they have no real understanding as to what that means.

Here is how I like to think about boundaries.  Boundaries are the imaginary lines we have drawn around ourselves.  They are [...]

Hold on to Your Power

One of my mentors, Virginia Satir,  taught me something that has been useful to  me and everyone else I have shared it with.  She said “treat everything that comes at you from the outside as something with which to cope, and not as a way to define yourself.

How often do you hear yourself or others [...]

Our Personal Foundation Needs to Keep Changing

What I have realized throughout the years is that our personal foundation has to keep changing.  That is because as we get older and mature we realize we have strengths and possibilities that at a younger age we did not know we had or needed. We become aware that we only know what we are [...]

Challenge Yourself

In order to strengthen our personal foundation we have to be open to challenging ourselves.  I love to kayak and yesterday I paddled further than I ever had.  It was a beautiful peaceful  Memorial Day morning. What I realized was that so many times before I had said to myself: that is far enough, maybe [...]

Relationship Rebuilding

My writing here has been at a stand still.   The reason is that I have been part of a 30 day challenge to blog daily for the past month.  I am proud to say that I and 49 others  completed the challenge.  The challenge was set by my mentor Connie Ragen Green. You can read [...]

Making a Commitment

I have just been listening to Tiger Woods who  gave a press conference.  This time he really seemed to understand the emotional ramifications of his behavior both for himself and for his marriage.  His infidelity was a betrayal of their marital commitment.  Only time will tell if his wife and he can repair their marriage.

A [...]

Do You Have a Growth Mindset?

A growth  mindset makes it possible to keep growing throughout life.  People with a growth mindset believe that their talents,  intelligence and personality can be developed at any time.  They enjoy learning and discovering new dimensions to themselves.  They do not shy away from challenges and look at life as a journey.

Recently I coached a [...]