My husband and I traveled through Vietnam for our honeymoon 10 years ago. One of the hardest parts of our trip was crossing the street in Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital city. Motorcycles and rickshaws and cabs and scooters bustled to and fro in multiple lanes. Yet there were no lane markers and no traffic lights and no cross walks. It was pure chaos to my Western eyes. When it was time to cross the street, we’d …
“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 …
Quarantine helped me remember the power of focus. With less time for my work I was forced to identify necessary essentials (including what I used to think was necessary, but really wasn’t) and also which projects I was most passionate about. I knew I only had space for one of my big ideas, so I turned all my attention to my prescriptive nonfiction book that centers around my Mindful Balanced Life (MBL) Method that I …
As humans we have a right to fully express our feelings. In fact, we MUST express our feelings for mental and emotional health. BUT as we express, let’s also transmute the energy behind our anger and fear into love and what we really want to create for our world. Be angry. Feel it. Notice how it shows up in your body. Listen to what it’s communicating to you, then act upon that wisdom. True wisdom …
“Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.” The first time I heard this saying I scribbled it on my white board, typed it into my Notes app, and saved it in my Favorite Quotes base on Airtable. (No one has ever called me disorganized lol!) I couldn’t get this saying off my mind. For much of my life, I did all the things that came my way because I am a strong, efficient high …