Category: Goal Setting
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As If
It is easy to look at someone else’s life and think they’ve got it all figured out. It’s easy to think that everything works for them while nothing feels like it’s working for you. It’s easy, and maybe it’s human nature, but it’s wrong. Pretty much always wrong. I had a conversation this week with…
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Transformation
I’ve been thinking about the concept of transformation. The word and the concept feel sort of magical to me. It’s the caterpillar becoming a butterfly and the ugly duckling the beautiful swam and it’s the change we sometimes see when someone’s face alights with a smile that lights up a room. But is it really…
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Doing Hard Things
So much of the direction of our life reflects our personality. We see it in our relationships, in our work, in our choices. We play our roles in life firmly based on who we are and who we have always been. That’s not to say we can’t learn and grow and change along the way.…
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Letting Go and Holding On
One of the absolute highlights of my work life is having the opportunity to teach yoga to the elders who live in the communities where I work. We do chair yoga and, especially in the long term care setting, almost all of my yogis are in wheelchairs. I will tell you, without question, that these…
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Doing What’s Right
For those of us of the Jewish faith, we are about to begin a New Year. It is a time, as with the secular New Year, when we reflect on the year that is ending and the year that is ahead. In our Jewish tradition, we specifically focus, during the ten days between the New…
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Living in Truth
Often I find that with a larger group, especially one that does not connect all that often, that starting a meeting with an “icebreaker” can be not just a good introduction but a way for folks to find points of commonality with one another. I see it as one more tool in the toolbox for…
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Baking and Leadership
Let’s start with the truth. When I was a freshman in college I had to call a friend to ask them how to boil water to make spaghetti. Truth! The only thing I ever had cooked in my life was scrambled eggs and that’s because scrambled eggs and popsicles constituted my senior year in high…
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Being Weary
It seems that, for just about as long as I can remember, tired has been a constant state of being. Not just tired but exhausted. We give our all to work, to our families and we struggle with the uncertainties and anxieties that life seems to present us in a never-ending flow. From a virus…
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Other People’s Doors
Here is a universal truth. It is so easy to judge. It is so easy to take our own experiences and apply them to others, assuming that their circumstances are much like ours. We know what parenting is, we have children. We know what marriage is, we have partners. We know what loss is, we’ve…
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What Scares Me
Each year, as my birthday inevitably rolls around, I think about what the coming year will hold and, even more so, what I want it to hold. Will this be the year that I achieve a goal or make a change or focus my time differently? My answers vary year over year and my commitment…
With a Full Heart 