How often do you set aside time to plan?

Today I’m parking myself and taking off the sunglasses to look more clearly into the next 6-12 months. I’m balancing live musicals that take me out of town with leading various Lutheran events and retreats around the country, producing the web series, continuing VBS for grownups, launching new coaching groups, and time with family and […]

Is the story you are telling yourself about your life helpful?

Is the story you are telling yourself about your life helpful? Is it pulling your forward or holding you back?⁣⁣I know. The story of your life seems absolutely, totally true. I’m not here to bring doubt to the facts of your life, I’m here to help you questions whether maybe your interpretation of it needs […]

Confronting new opportunities

Just wrapped another online coaching group. One of the things on which we reflected was our personal tendencies when confronted with a new opportunity.⁣⁣I research a little, but once I’m convinced that it will move me toward my goals I take action, and then learn more as I go. Another person was happy dwelling in […]

Spring cleaning

Spring? Is that you? It’s hard to tell from where I’m standing.⁣⁣I spent part of the first day of spring doing a 3-hour one-on-one retreat with a coaching client. It was sort of a spring cleaning for her life: intentionally cutting out unhelpful patterns and designing her daily rhythms to create the feelings she wants […]

What are you waiting for?

What are you waiting for?⁣⁣You wait for some things because they are out of your control. (Hello, New York City subway system.)⁣⁣You wait for some things because they are better after a short pause (hello, boiling water poured over a tea bag.)⁣⁣But you wait for some things unnecessarily. You make up reason that you have […]