When my daughter was about five years old we spent a day at this beautiful ferry landing. It was a park setting right on the San Diego bay and was filled with streams, rocks, and trees. I watched her climb one of those trees until she was about six feet off the ground. At this [...]
My amazing friend and power partner, Jenifer Madson, and author of the new book Living the Promises, told me recently to “stop doing what doesn’t work.” Well, she didn’t tell me to do that outright, she said it in a conversation about something else but it was one of those golden nuggets that she drops [...]
If you are worried about what other people think of you, you’ll never be as successful or as happy as you were destined to be. Who are those other people? Everyone. It’s easy to cast off the opinions and judgments of strangers; you have less vested in what they think of you. It’s a whole [...]
Everyone has a money story and everyone has a perspective on wealth. For instance, you may feel that providing your children with braces is a justifiable cost but that putting in a swimming pool would be frivolous. Or it may be okay for you to have a swimming pool but not okay to give your [...]
Remember those kids in High School that teased you? Or that bully on the block that never let a day go by without saying you were a “loser?” Well guess what, none of those people even remember you. And yet, you’ve lugged their memory and their image with you for years! Your past does not [...]
Remember when you were a child? Everything you got to do had to come with permission from someone else – your parents, your coach, the hall monitor, the babysitter or any other grown up in charge of your behavior. If your environment was healthy, you learned to ask for permission and got it when you [...]