Since writing my post on getting vulnerable last week, I've been approaching my work and my life differently. And for me, that looks like shutting off the part of my brain that thrives in resistance (this is the part that gets bogged down in research, loves to over...

Every Monday morning I wake up to a "Monday Kickass Quote" in my inbox sent to me by the fabulous Andrea Owen. I look forward to it every week because invariably it perfectly resonates with something I'm feeling or going through. This Monday's quote was no exception:...

You know that feeling you get when you accomplish something you didn't think you could do, or you traveled somewhere magical, or you had a mind-blowing aha moment? Maybe you just finished your first road race, or you had a mystical experience at Machu Picchu, or you...

I just finished reading the fascinating book Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip Heath & Dan Heath, which laid out a strategy for supporting positive change, whether within an organization, or within ourselves. While my hunch is many readers...

Yesterday was a tough day. Not because anything bad happened -- my family was fine...the sun was out...I got to go to the movies...I had a date night with the hub. No...yesterday was a tough day because my I was knee-deep in dirty thoughts. (Not that kind of dirty...

I'm the vacation planner in my family. I research potential locations, stalk the perfect flights in hopes of well-timed price drop, read countless reviews of possibly accommodations...I pretty much make it all happen. That's how we ended up in Orlando, which is where...

So, I'm sitting here in my living room staring at the cover of a coffee table book about Paris. This isn't just any coffee table book - it's Monumental Paris, a ginormous tome with 218 full-color illustrations, 6 fold-open spreads, and a signed print. It is, simply,...

One of the things I hear from a lot of the young women I coach is that if they put their own needs above someone else's, they're being selfish. And being selfish? That's bad stuff, right? I mean, by its very definition, to be selfish means to focus on one's own...

This past weekend, I slipped out of town with seven girlfriends for a much-needed getaway on the north end of Whidbey Island, a beautiful, rugged spot about ninety minutes northwest of Seattle. Despite this being a particularly busy time in my world - coming off...

Ten years ago, I was in the wrong job. I thought I should be more satisfied—I worked for a great company, spent my time in a great environment, and had a lot of autonomy. But still, it just wasn't working for me, on so many levels. I knew I needed to make a change,...

Since the summer, I’ve been working on noticing more. Noticing what’s going on around me, noticing the little synchronicities that seem to happen with increasing regularity, noticing the beauty in just about everything. I first took on this noticing challenge last...