On the second day of my recent workshop there was an Indian wedding at the resort. It was so celebratory with dancing, drumming, and the clothing was spectacular. We watched the parade of pulsing celebration, moving and dancing together; an incredible feast for the senses. It’s always amazing to me how Spirit supports us moment to moment. We didn’t need much of an excuse to join in on the celebration.

What a simple delight!

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 Maybe you missed them the first time. No worries, here is a head’s up about some of our recent radio guests and a link so that you can listen right now! 

  “Tennis Anyone?” Changing lives through a game:

Combining his gifts, talents and passion Kamau Murray, founded

XS Tennis in order to help people live fuller lives. Join us as we talk about how he’s doing that and how it feels to win the Pepsi Refresh grant to take tennis into Chicago Public Schools.

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 When Did Happiness Go AWOL?: 

Happiness is a choice. Do you feel that happiness is frivolous in today’s environment? Or do you feel guilty for going after your happiness? If so, this conversation is for you!

Join us as we talk with author and coach Diana Fletcher about happiness that seems to be absent without leave (AWOL).

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Saving Our Kids and the Environment: 

The Elements Naturals Story: 

When she couldn’t find a healthy, chemical-free sustainable baby wipe option, she made one. Join us as we talk with Linda Naerheim, founder of Elements Naturals about creating a successful and sustainable healthy business from scratch.

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Between the Folds reveals the beauty in unexpected places – like a sheet of paper. What the 10 artists in this film are able to do will leave you speechless. They have abandoned careers and scoffed at hard-earned graduate degrees-all to forge unconventional lives as modern day paper folders. Beauty is everywhere, but we need each other as beholders to share it. 

I realize that I’m a never-ending project.  And really, I think it’s true for all of us. As I work through the spiral of my life and work,  I’ve reached another level of understanding. I used to focus on helping entrepreneurs position their businesses and develop strategic marketing plans. I still do that, but that’s the 3rd step, two important steps come before it.  These steps – the prequel steps – are about “seeing yourself, talents and possibilities” clearly, and then positioning yourself to share your best, and then applying that to your work or business.

What I’ve discovered in my work with clients is that all the strategy and tactics in the world are useless if you can’t truly see yourself, your calling and your path. When you don’t see things clearly, you make decisions and take actions that require more effort than necessary. The extra effort leaves you and your resources exhausted, wondering how you got there.

I greatly recommend spending more time in the prequel stage to maximize clarity and vision as you think about your work or business. It’s foundational and soulful work. It’s easy to dismiss these stages because they don’t appear to generate tangible results, but the greatest success, sense of well-being, and contribution start with you; what you perceive, receive and envision for yourself.

Are you exhausted and overwhelmed, wondering if things will ever get better, and how?

No doubt there’s a lot going on these days, plenty of worry, concern, fear, and uncertainty. It’s everywhere and it’s draining.  Low vibration emotions zap the vitality right out of us. Low vibrations also set up a kind of filter or veil which may keep us from making decisions for our highest good.  So, what ends up happening? We work like crazy for a desired outcome, only to come up short.  What can we do about it?

1 – Start living YOUR life.    

Take a “Truth Inventory” – a list of what’s working and what’s not. Don’t leave out anything! Include all aspects of your life including work, hobbies, volunteer activities, relationships, health, finances, etc. Lay it all out.  Sometimes we just really need to SEE it in order for it to register that something needs to change.

2- Make a change to anything (or anybody) that no longer serves your highest good.

Yep, I said it. Clutter or diminishment of any kind – emotional, physical, mental – is a killer. It destroys inspiration, clarity, possibility, health.  Purge it.

What was true one year, five years, or ten years ago, may not be true today and yet, are you hanging on? Hanging on takes up space in our lives and anything that takes up space, takes energy.  I think Steve Jobs says it very well,

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. ~ Steve Jobs

3 – Make no excuses. Start today. 

Start small, that’s fine, but starts today.  Your life is too valuable to make excuses for why you’re coming up short on your personal goals and expectations.

There’s a lot of talk about the importance of discipline. We need it for work, we need it for raising kids, and we need it to lose weight. But the word discipline is one of those heavy resistance words – a word that creates an immediate negative reaction, consciously and subconsciously.  It sounds like pain, difficulty, punishment.

I’d like to turn that around. Try this on instead: self-love.  Think of discipline when applied to self, as self-love. Do you have the self-love you need to do your best work, raise your children with love, and stick to a program for your health? In the end, you must do this for you, no one else. If you make it about anyone else, you’ll end up with lackluster results and disappointment.