My friend Sarah Biedenharn died. She was 82 and had fought a valiant 14 year battle with ovarian cancer–the silent killer. The disease finally took her body but it never won her spirit. I am writing about this because the only way I can think to honor the memory of my friend is to spread [...]
Posts Tagged ‘inspiration’
Letting the tears flow
Posted in coaching, Healthy, Life, thoughts, tagged friends, friendship, inspiration, love, older friends, Ovarian Cancer, Sarah Biedenharn, thoughts on November 9, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Abandon your fear of failure!
Posted in coaching, Healthy, job search, Life, thoughts, tagged coaching, failure, friendship, Houston coach, houston transitions coach, inspiration, Life, mindfulness, women on January 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In the journey of life, failure is just a stop along the way. Yet, most of us are so intent on inching forward that when we come to this stop we are jarred to our bones–failure has brought us to a dead end that sometimes has the power to catapult us into deep despair. Fear [...]
When you are happy and you know it!
Posted in coaching, General, tagged business coach, change, coaching, happiness, Houston coach, inspiration, life coach, mindfulness, thoughts, transitions coach on January 22, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday I run into a woman who told me how happy she was and how she was looking at her job with new eyes. At first, she was almost apologetic–she was a little bit self-conscious announcing her happiness! Then she realized I would appreciate her sentiments–what has the world come to if we have to [...]
After your new year’s resolutions, find time to breathe.
Posted in coaching, Healthy, Life, thoughts, tagged Houston life coach, inspiration, Life, resolutions, transitions coach, wisdom, women on January 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The start of a new year means new resolutions for a lot of us. Personally, I have never waited for January 1st for resolutions–I find that there is no day like the present to take an action and so when I need change I go for it no matter what time of the year. That [...]
Be a leader in your own life
Posted in coaching, Life, thoughts, tagged business coach, coaching, fear, Houston coach, houston transitions coach, inspiration, life coach, women on October 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Too often we think of leaders as those at the very top–a recent article in the McKinsey Quarterly has reminded me that we are all leaders in our life. What kind of life do we lead makes a difference not just to others but to ourselves. According to the experts at McKinsey, successful leaders: 1. [...]
Three ingredients for success
Posted in coaching, job search, Life, thoughts, tagged Houston, Houston coach, inspiration, life coach, success, transitions coach, wisdom, women on September 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What does it take to succeed? I think first and foremost it is important to decide what success looks like…we cannot simply subscribe to other people’s vision of success! Keeping up with the Jones can only be so much fun and can only bring us so much fulfillment. In fact, my personal experience is that [...]
Patience–develop it and hold on to it!
Posted in coaching, Healthy, Life, thoughts, tagged age, business coach, challenges, friends, houston transitions coach, inspiration, Life, life coach, patience, thoughts, women on June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Recently I read in a magazine that “Patience is like a muscle. If you don’t use it , it wastes away.” That assumes that we have patience at the start, but do we really? This past year I have had to develop the patience muscle–and I have found it to be so small!! I have [...]
what does competition do for you?
Posted in coaching, General, Healthy, Life, tagged change, choices, Houston business coach, houston transitions coach, inspiration, life coach, living, real estate, success, thoughts, transitions, transitions coach, women on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There is some aspect of competition that is good–it keeps us on our toes, it makes us strive to be better, and it keeps us honest insofar as it requires us to compare ourselves to others and not live in splendid isolation. And yet competition as we live it in our American lives goes to [...]
Challenging oneself to get out of the comfort zone
Posted in coaching, Life, thoughts, tagged art, challenge, comfort zone, Houston coach, Houston life coach, inspiration, Life, Texas transitions coach, transitions coach, valentine day on February 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am not an artist. I had my first artistic crisis in first grade when the teacher said that the picturesI had drawn of my family were not realistic because they were wrongly proportioned. All the people in the pictures had really really long legs. Now that I know more about the world, I know [...]
