Archive for the 'Ari's Personal Stories' Category

60-Day Challenge Wk 4: Shedding More Than What I Imagined

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series 60-Day Challenge: Intuitive Entrepreneurship60 Day Challenge: Intuitive Entrepreneur
Goal: To create and execute a new business vision by following my intuition in 60 days.  And do so without neglecting my family’s needs.
The week 4 of this challenge was even more cathartic than the previous weeks.
It’s because [...]

60-Day Challenge Wk 3: Freedom to Abandon Plans

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series 60-Day Challenge: Intuitive Entrepreneurship60 Day Challenge: Intuitive Entrepreneur
Goal: To create and execute a new business vision by following my intuition in 60 days.  And do so without neglecting my family’s needs.
It seems to me like each week I uncover a new twist.  Plans and ideas [...]

60-Day Challenge Wk2: Shopping for Success

This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series 60-Day Challenge: Intuitive Entrepreneurship60 Day Challenge: Intuitive Entrepreneur
Goal: To create and execute a new business vision by following my intuition in 60 days.  And do so without neglecting my family’s needs.
This week, I rented a U-Haul and moved into my new office/studio. Also, I took [...]

60-Day Challenge Wk1: Plowing through Resistance

This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series 60-Day Challenge: Intuitive Entrepreneurship60 Day Challenge: Intuitive Entrepreneur
Goal: To create and execute a new business vision by following my intuition.  And do so without neglecting my family’s needs.

They say time flies, but I, for one, never been a firm believer.  Sometimes true, of course, but [...]

60-Day Challenge: Intuitive Entrepreneurship — Will Power of Love Be Enough?

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series 60-Day Challenge: Intuitive Entrepreneurship“The ‘how’ comes after you get moving, rarely before. Not knowing how is one of the lamest excuses ever invented. Figure it out as you go.”– Steve Pavlina
Many of us dream of doing what we love more fully. I am no exception.
Yet, [...]

Intuition: Leaping without Knowing Where You’ll Land

In this essay I discuss the nature of intuition and how I’ve decided to “surrender” to it — accept and follow my intuition without worrying too much about why and how.

A year ago, my family uprooted our home of 10 years in Austin, Texas and moved to St. Paul, Minnesota.
Before moving, we tried to [...]

The Secret to Minimizing Worries about Your Challenges

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series How to Enjoy ChallengesThe part 4 of “How to Enjoy Challenges” deals with something we all experience from time to time — a problem threatens your plan.  You start to worry about the outcome you desire, and that anxiety makes you the challenge as an [...]

Embracing Reality (Especially When It’s Challenging)

This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series How to Enjoy ChallengesChallenges are demanding.  And when you can’t accept what it’s demanding of you, you can go into a denial, focusing all your energy on how reality shouldn’t be this way.  In this installment of the How to Enjoy Challenges series, let’s look [...]

Seek in Your Overreaction Obstructions to Your Peace

Things get on our nerves.  Have you ever stopped to think why?  Let me share with you a recent event that really made me stop and look at the things that bother me.

Recently, I was taking my almost-5-year old daughter to her church choir, which she loves.
But that day, we were running late — [...]

What I Am Not Thankful for

This last week was Thanksgiving in US.  Though I’m not an American, I’ve grown to accustomed to the spirit and the ritual of this holiday.   And indeed, my family and I shared a very special time — it seems that each year we spend with our growing children, the more we realize how important these [...]