• It’s time to stop being bothered by undone To Dos

    Recently I posted I walk into a room and see a To Do list. The basic premise: Your environment isn’t neutral. It’s either giving you energy or draining your energy. Which means when you’re in your home and all you see are undone items on a To Do list, your energy is being depleted. Here’s an […]

  • Is this your particular form of insanity?

    Our days are full of decisions. Hundreds of choices, big and small. From the mundane of what to wear, what to eat for breakfast, which route to take to work… To the potentially life-altering of whether to change careers, go to counseling or get a divorce, start exercising, make time for creativity… Every single choice has […]

  • Distinction: Moving away from versus moving toward

    I don’t want to be in debt

    There are some questions that almost guarantee an interesting conversation. What’s your ideal life? is one of them. Which is why I love asking this question. I’ve noticed, though, in describing their ideal life, most respond with a laundry list of what they don’t want. I don’t want to be in debt. I don’t want to […]

  • What's the very next step?

    What’s the very next step?

    Do you know someone who is wired to ask, What’s the very next step? Someone who seems to have action and results in their DNA. I have to admit the very next step is not my natural state. I can get overly focused on the whole enchilada. On wanting to know all the steps involved […]

  • Nothing changes if nothing changes

    Do you want to keep having what you’re having?

    I hear a lot of nos. No, that’s too hard. No, that would be overwhelming. No, I don’t have the energy for that. No, that would take too long. No, I wouldn’t feel comfortable doing that. “No” is hard to come back from. It puts the kibosh on what’s possible. Nothing changes if nothing changes. […]

  • Making things easy

    Here’s my question: How can you make it easier?

    “There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” —Warren Buffet There does seem to be a tendency in people (me included!) to make things much more difficult than they have to be. Do you find yourself saying any of these or something similar? I’m overwhelmed. There’s so much […]

  • Are you missing an opportunity to be restored?

    A friend called in a state of overwhelm. She’d finally decided to tackle the clutter that filled her home, but was struggling to find a strategy that felt doable. Organized clutter is still clutter. Her first inclination was to organize. Most of us have been down that road where we organize our clutter instead of […]

  • Giving myself permission

    I don’t want to be driven anymore

    I didn’t realize in early May I was taking a sabbatical. I thought I was just feeling a bit less motivated. Finding it more difficult to focus. Noticing my productivity was falling off. It was a curious turn of events because I’ve always been such a taskmaster with myself—driven, pushing through, doing, doing, doing. But […]