I want you to assess where you are in your life right now? What is is you are asking for? I'm going to tell you a story. I was approached by a friend of mine. They will often tell me how they hate their job and they want to get out of it, but they really want the job to provide them with more money to contribute to their stability. Well, of course we all want our job to provide for us, but lets go back to the statement "I want out of this." I want you to acknowledge the power

It's easy to live day by day and to think of everything that doesn't go right. Ruminate what we want that we don't have or the way we think things should be. Somewhere out beyond that however, is the present moment. We rob ourselves from that so often. I'm asking you to drop your defenses and go with me here for a few moments. Read slow and take your time with this. Consider a period in this paragraph as 5 seconds. I want you to focus on your breathing and take 3 slow deep br

I've talked about goals and choices. Now lets talk about excuses. When facilitating group therapy, when one person is offered a solution to their issue, often times that's followed by a "yea but..." and countless solutions follow and more "yea buts" come behind that. I implemented the "Yea But Jar." It's a swear jar that goes in the middle of us and each person that offers up an excuse to a goal or solution has to put something in the jar. While we don't play with money in a

Often times we get stuck in feelings that were trapped with no choice. And we ask What choice do I have but to suck it up and ____? Lets look at the power of that question. What Choice Do I Have? There are always a multitude of options available to us. And that choice is what creates our reality. The quality of our reality is dictated by the choices that we make. I remember about a year back, I decided I needed to buckle down and start saving money, because it was just a wise

Here we go. I'm starting a new adventure here. Blogging. While this is not something I ever saw myself taking on, it's just say, my homework challenge. Topic: New Years Resolutions. Duh. It's January 2nd. And we're late. LOL! What if we actually take a look at these as something more promising than a weight loss goal? What if a New Years Resolution is nothing but a goal with an amplified party preceding the accomplishment? We've just dropped the ball, and this is our life. It