Up Your Impact Factor

I’ve been blessed to know Sandi Amorim for a little over a year now. During that time, we’ve worked together on many levels including my taking advantage of her amazing coaching skills. (If life coaching were a video game, Sandi would be a world champion. It’s not, of course, but she still is.) A few weeks ago, an idea sprung up from a conversation she and I had right here on this very blog. We were talking about what great friends we would’ve been growing up. Then, realizing we were STILL growing up and could revert back to childhood humor (click to read more…)

Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it’s important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level. We need to literally “count our blessings,” give thanks for them, allow ourselves to enjoy them, and relish the experience of prosperity we already have.” — Shakti Gawain, author I’m coming up on my tenth anniversary of having a gratitude practice. When I started working with Jackie Woodside (she was my business coach for over six years), I am sure I radiated disillusionment, disappointment and resignation. You see (I learned this much later, but let’s (click to read more…)

  Beautiful background image courtesy of pranav.   What Orwell meant when he wrote this lovely quote is that the leaders who are in control at any given time also have control over rewriting their nation’s past. This edited version of a nation’s history significantly affects its future. For more on the political background behind this quote, you’ll have to go read 1984. But that’s not what we’re here to talk about today… This same truth holds steady when we apply it to our own personal lives. Our future is determined by the stories we tell ourselves about our past. (click to read more…)