What Does it Mean to Evolve Your Life?

I like to think that I have learned the difference between personal development and personal evolution.  It has taken me time to appreciate the difference.  For most of us real personal evolution happens in the second half of life. That is when we are conscious of our inner need to live authentically. I see personal development as [...]

Five Strategies For Evolving Your Life

At various times in life most of us get a longing  for change.  This is especially true when we are  in the second half of life. It happened to me.  A little voice inside me kept nagging me to make some changes because I was not living my life to the fullest.  I was ready to [...]

Working on Your Life

Are you working on your life or are caught up in the daily demands of living? This question was posed Jeanette Cates in a slightly different way.  She asked:  are you working on your business or in your business.  She made a good point that when we work on the business we will be [...]

Get Behind the Steering Wheel

Recently I came across a great visual for empowerment “Get out of the backseat and get behind the steering wheel.” When you are in the driver’s seat and want to start moving you have to take action.  Turn on the ignition, put the car in drive, and follow the road.  If you don’t take [...]

Is There a Cure for Depression?

Last time I wrote about the new Happiness Pill which  is being sold as the answer for our longing to feel good.  Since then I have seen ads for pills with similar claims marketed under a variety of  names.  Of course anti depressants make similar promises. It is no wonder that the percentage of [...]

5 Ways to Evolve Your Life

What does it mean to evolve your life? To me it means letting go of beliefs and behaviors that get in the way of living to the fullest.  Simply put, it is accepting ourselves as we are while simultaneously knowing that there is so much more to us than what we are expressing.

Here are five ways [...]

Three Steps to Gaining Control

Have you found yourself in the situation where you have become a reactor in your own life? You are so busy reacting to external committments and demands that you are no longer paying attention to what you want.  I have been at that place and it is  scary. I remember vividly feeling that I [...]