Last night my 6-year-old son Mav took a scissors and cut a hole in my 4 year-old son Kyen’s outdoor lizard cage that housed a new pet lizard he had caught earlier that day and was very proud of. When I saw what Mav had done, I thought his actions were disrespectful and mean. He had intentionally ruined his brother’s cage. Jumping to one of the reactions we parents choose most often, I told him …
“What gets measured gets managed.” I heard this quote often in my corporate career. It can be applied to all areas of your life — even time. It aligns with the universal wisdom that the first step to change is awareness. So if you want to make better choices about how you use your time, you must bring clear awareness to it by measuring it. Having read hundreds of time management, productivity, and high performance …
Two weeks ago, I hit quarantine rock bottom. Tweezing out the gravel in my stinging wounds, I assessed how I had gotten here, and how I could get back up again. Overnight I had become a stay-at-home mom with the closing of kindergarten and our decision to keep our youngest home from day care/preschool. I continued serving my current contracted coaching clients, but put all other business projects on hold to free up time to …
Last month I completed my certification as a Conscious Parenting Method Coach from Dr. Shefali Tsabury. Oprah has endorsed her work as revolutionary and life changing… Based on my intensive 6-month training with her, I whole-heartedly agree! Dr. Shefali’s worldview and Conscious Parenting Method is very much in line with the Mindful Balanced Life Method I created and coach my client’s through. So I was eager for a deeper level of learning from her, specifically …
As human beings, we tend to self-sabotage regularly. We get in OUR own way of achieving our goals, our dreams, our success. Understanding how we regularly self-sabotage is a critical first step in eliminating this destructive behavior. Let’s look at one of the most common self-sabotage strategies I see in my coaching practice: Treating The Surface Layer Problem (Or Symptom) Rather Than The Root Of The Problem. We have a backache so we take an …