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Category Archives: Life’s purpose
(Issue #501) A Blogger’s Retrospective for 2019
May you create, share, and savor powerful moments in the coming year and beyond. -Happy New Year. Scroll down to view my Gratitude Video to you.- While sitting in an Austin hotel room at the end of May 2010, I … Continue reading
Posted in Appreciation, awareness, Goals, Gratitude, inspiration, Integrity, intentional growht, intentionality, leadership, lessons reaffirmed, Life lessons, life success, Life's purpose, lifelong learning, listening, resilience
Tagged appreciation, awareness, goals, mindfulness, resilience, Year in review
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(#390) A Seven Week Challenge for Purpose and Growth
May you finish 2017 with clarity, peace, and vision for your future as well as those in your life. I am offering you the chance to engage in a seven week journey. Over the past four or five years I … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Appreciation, Appropriate Behavior, assumptions, authenticity, awareness, Choice, fitness, focus, fortitude, Grit, intentionality, Life lessons, Life's purpose, mindset, Motivation, Personal Wellbeing, resilience
Tagged accountability, action, assumptions, awareness, core values, dreams, goals, intentionality, purpose, resilience, self understanding
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(#350) Regrets? Choices And Lessons.
A culmination of all those choices. Some small. Some large. All help create the person you are becoming. Would you, if you could, go back in time and change the choices that you made? I know. A wide open question … Continue reading
Posted in creating your future, Failure, fortitude, Goals, Gratitude, Integrity, lessons reaffirmed, Life lessons, Life's purpose, resilience
Tagged failure, fortitude, future, life lessons, resilience
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(#343) Reflect, Remove, And Replace: Focus On The Space
All of us have experienced times when one or more of the slices, sectors, segments, or spaces of our lives no longer seem to serve us. All of us are multi-dimensional beings. One wellbeing model divides our lives into six dimensions. When … Continue reading
Posted in Appropriate Behavior, assumptions, authenticity, awareness, Balance, boundaries and limits, Find Your Happy Place, health, intentionality, Life lessons, life success, Life's purpose, Mindfulness, mindset
Tagged authenticity, awareness, balance, goal achieving, goals, intentionality, nourturing, purpose, resilience
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(#298) Do You Have “Hell, Yeah” Goals?
When you establish new goals, consider these four components. Give your goals a second R.E.A.D. During one of my recent podcast recordings, film producer Pepper Lindsey posed an intriguing question: “What does success look like to you?” (This podcast will air on … Continue reading
Posted in Appropriate Behavior, assumptions, awareness, Balance, Being REMARKABLE, branding, confidence, core values, courage, creating your future, Dreams, fortitude, Grit, growth, habits, life success, Life's purpose, little pleasures, Motivation, Passion, Personal growth, Relationship, relevance, tenacity
Tagged career, career coaching, courage, curiosity, fortitude, goals, joining a team, life coaching, logic, motivation, passion, personal branding, resilience, well-being
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(#282) The Story of the Lavender Farmer
“It has been a saga, but I am determined to be successful, and continue to learn from each chapter,” she said. “Thank heaven they come one at a time.” In addition to my time on stage or facilitating smaller workshops, … Continue reading
Posted in action, courage, curiosity, Dreams, growth, Life lessons, Life's purpose, Passion, Purpose, resilience
Tagged action, awareness, courage, disappointment, goals, growth, happiness, motivation, passion, purpose, resilience, well-being, your story
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(#277) Thriving in the Thin Place: Becoming Our Essential Selves
Thin places represent those spaces that help construct (or maybe deconstruct) meaning in life. Before recording any of my podcast episodes, I take time to help the guest and myself discover the direction we would like to see our conversation … Continue reading
Posted in boundaries and limits, Connection-Disconnection, focus, growth, Integrity, life success, Life's purpose, Mindfulness, mindset, Passion, resilience, vulnerability, wisdom
Tagged boundaries and limits, Celtic tradition, growth, heaven and earth, meaning, mindfulness, peace, resilience, spirituality, thin places
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(#268) P.R.I.D.E for Student (Life) Success
Choose well, my friend. QUESTION: What do you think would give first-year college students the best advantage for success when they arrive on campus? QUESTION: What do you believe would give new employees the best advantage their first day on … Continue reading
Posted in Balance, Choice, Excellence, focus, fortitude, habits, Integrity, Life's purpose, Passion, Purpose, Reflective practice, resilience, Student success
Tagged choices, discipline, equilibrium, integrity, life success, passion, purpose, resilience, student success
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(#267) You Get to Create the Path
We are all artists painting our own lives. While facilitating a Texas faculty resilience workshop, I presented the following R.D. Laing quote to the audience: The range of what we think and do Is limited by what we fail to … Continue reading
Posted in Being REMARKABLE, confidence, courage, Dreams, growth, Integrity, Life's purpose, Mindfulness, Reflection, vulnerability
Tagged action, Antonio Machado, confidence, courage, dreams, growth, integrity, mentoring, mindfulness, purpose, reflection, vulnerability
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