Category: Create Your Life

  • Beyond the youth culture: the four seasons of life

    Beyond the youth culture: the four seasons of life

    Each season of life offers special opportunities to live and grow into more of who we are. The four seasons: Spring is new life emerging and growing. Summer is blossoming and more growth. Autumn is living out loud and visible in full color. Winter is the end of physical life. Our age during each of…

  • How to know what’s possible

    How to know what’s possible

    Creating something new requires both personal capacity and social conditions. These trees, for example, grew because the trees were healthy and because of favorable conditions of earth, air, water, light and temperature. When you have an idea or an opportunity comes your way, you too combine your personal beliefs, confidence and skills and social conditions…

  • What it takes to embrace change

    What it takes to embrace change

    Designing what’s next requires you to move from life as you know it. It’s natural to protect what exists. We all do it. The first step in moving into your new life (and in being your own life coach) is to shift from the mindset of protecting the status quo into embracing the idea that…

  • “What” comes before “how”

    “What” comes before “how”

    When you want to create change, you combine imagination and implementation. Too often the time to imagine is shortchanged. The well intentioned “get the job done”  rush past imagination to implementation is a key cause of change initiative failures. It’s natural to think of an idea and then ask  “how will you do that?” Unfortunately,…

  • How life transitions work

    How life transitions work

    Today we are experiencing more life transitions and at a faster pace than any time in human history. Until now we didn’t need to know how to navigate a transition and design what’s next. Transitions were part of the life cycle and they just happened. One part of your life ended. Another part began. What’s…

  • Selfhood: spirit, heart, mind, body connection

    Selfhood: spirit, heart, mind, body connection

    In working with women for over 40 years and in my own life transitions, I discovered that the key to women’s power is our selfhood strength and resilience. When our spirit, heart, mind, body connection is strong — when we trust, love, know and value ourselves for who we are, we have the inner container…

  • Self-love affirmation

    Self-love affirmation

    A key to developing and strengthening selfhood is to experience feelings of inner care, connection, nurture and well-being of self-love that are stronger than an inner critic voice or feeling unworthy. This affirmation practice is designed to turn on and turn up the warmth of your inner light. The exercise incorporates the Chinese energy medicine…

  • Create a life-work picture – what’s important now?

    Create a life-work picture – what’s important now?

    Find your life work connection by creating a picture of the parts of your life and deciding how they go together. Think of work as both paid and volunteer work to sustain yourself and to help make society a better place. Here is a sample list of categories. The picture with this post is the…