Archive for the 'Realizing Your Potential' Category

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 [...]

How to Rise to the Occasion

This final installment of the series “How to Enjoy Challenges” examines how a challenge can bring the best in a person — or the worst.  By diligently removing threats you associate with challenges, anyone can become a brave soul who rises to the occasion and pulls out the best in him/herself.
A challenge can bring [...]

8 Easy Ways to Cope with Overwhelming Challenges

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series How to Enjoy ChallengesThe part 5 of the series “How to Enjoy Challenges” addresses a situation where either the scope or the number of challenges you face overwhelm you.  All of these coping tactics are easy and immediate, and are effective at fighting back that [...]

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 [...]

Disassociating Fear from Your Challenges

This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series How to Enjoy ChallengesIn part 2 of the series “How to Enjoy Challenges,” we take a look at how we may associate fears from our past with our current challenges — and how such an association may inflate our perception of the problem.

In the [...]

How to Enjoy Challenges: Introduction

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series How to Enjoy ChallengesHappy 2009!  We’re going to kick-start the year with a series on how to turn discouraging challenges into motivating ones.

This morning in Minnesota, it was 6 degress (-14C).  As I walked out onto the icy pavement, I felt the familiar tingle [...]

The Power of Peer-Mentoring

Mentoring/coaching doesn’t just happen when you pay someone who’s more experienced than you.  It can also happen among your very peers — and such a partnership can have bond and strength that few other relationships can.  Let me tell you about my peer-mentoring partner, and invite you to join me in forming a new peer-mentoring [...]