I really don’t know where to begin, so I will start writing and see where it leads. Starting is easy; staying on any track long enough to finish the job is a challenge as shiny squirrels are so enticing. Shiny Squirrels? Ahh, your local squirrels aren’t shiny? Mine either. In Brevard, North Carolina, there are white…
Becoming
Inner life. Who I am becoming.
Quotes About Intuition
If your car has GPS that helps you navigate the world, why don’t we have GPS for our lives? I don’t know about you, but I sure could use some assistance making decisions. According to filmmaker Bill Bennett in the movie PGS: Intution we have built in GPS. That internal GPS is called intuition –…
What Is Intuition? An Epic Roundup
What is intuition anyway? Intuition has been (no pun intended) on my mind because I tried to bring the movie PGS: Intuition to my local community in October, and have been reading about intuition. Wikipedia calls intuition the ability to acquire knowledge without proof, evidence, or conscious reasoning, or without understanding how the knowledge was acquired….
Feeling My Age
I’m not too sure when it started, but recently I’ve been feeling my age. Grey Hair My hair started to truly “go grey” ten or eleven years ago in my forties. There had been strands of grey all along, but I really started to notice the changes then. I started coloring my hair. Sometimes the color…
Midlife Crisis or Midlife Revolution?
Coined in 1965 by Elliott Jacques, the ‘midlife crisis’ is a term that implies that getting older is a disease. It suggests that life is completely over when you hit midlife, and that -with just one crisis- you’re ‘over it’ and better. I see the phrase ‘midlife crisis’ as just one more way that Western…
Despair and the Bright Shining Light of Just Maybe
We like to think that one person can’t change the world. I don’t believe that’s true. As one person, you have significant impact on your world. The energy produced by your feelings resounds everywhere. Your energy touches all of the people and buildings and cars and plants and animals that you meet every day. Your…
In Praise Of the Multi-Faceted Self and a Life Well Lived
Conventional wisdom suggests that to be successful in life, you find a career that you really like, and that you work at that career until you retire. After many years of self sacrifice -and focusing on your family and career- you get to “retire.” And then finally, in retirement, you get to do some of…
Deanna Troi Asks Life Coaching Questions
If you’ve read my about page, then you know I like Star Trek not Star Wars. During my life coaching training, I decided to see if Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) character Deanna Troi asks life coaching questions. If there’s one thing I learned during a year’s worth of training towards becoming a life…