
So many of my clients come to me because they are working all the time and they are exhausted. Every day feels like a little death.
Happiness and success are obviously not based on how hard you work. But what’s the alternative?
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As Joko Beck, an American Buddhist nun, writes in Everyday Zen:
So a relationship is a great gift, not because it makes us happy—it often doesn’t—but because any intimate relationship, if we view it as practice, is the clearest mirror we can find.
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Setting your goals - whether to build a business or finish a novel - is great, but actually taking steps toward them can be scary because it will require you to step out of your comfort zone.
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I talk with women every day who say that each day feels like a "little death." They feel lost, or confused and anxious, or downright hopeless. They dream of feeling peaceful and happy while doing work they absolutely love.
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When I hear people talking about the “current economic climate” like it’s bad weather, I get the urge to share one of the life lessons I learned from a sweet friend and Zen master - my dog Zoe, who died in 2008.
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Helen Keller once said, "We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world." I would amend that statement to include “and if we never got off the beaten path.”
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While we mark the transitions of early life with rituals—everything from baptisms, communions, and bar and bat mitzvahs to graduations—we usually ignore the more subtle, yet profound, “new beginnings” available to us in midlife.
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One of my coaching clients (let’s call her Sonia) recently went through a divorce. She has worked hard to get to a place where she can appreciate all the good that came from the relationship.
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Have you ever had the feeling that you are just about to freak out?
You feel the pressure build and build and build and you know that the next time someone asks you when you are going to finish that project (or get a real job) you are seriously going to FREAK OUT and probably say or do something you'll regret.
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You’re doing it again. You meditate. You read personal development blogs at breakfast. You listen to Law of Attraction audio books in your car. You just know better. But you’re still letting your inner critic bully you.
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