On Saturday, October 30, I attended the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington DC. For me it was an easy trip coming from Annapolis, Maryland by car and Metro. What impressed me was how far people had traveled just to be there. Some of the people I spoke with where from Oregon, [...]
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Do you think of yourself as an energy producer? We all can increase our energy level by taking good care of ourselves. I look at taking care of self in two ways. The first is how we take care of our bodies and the second is how we take care of our emotional well [...] Couple relationships are more than the two individuals. That is because the relationship becomes a separate entity. Consequently, changes that an individual makes will have an impact on the relationship balance. This is just as true in personal relationships as in work relationships. For instance, if you have a boss who micro manages it [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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. [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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, [...] |
 
  
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