Sometimes I find myself saying the same thing over and over, to myself and to others. This week, it was this piece of wisdom, origin unknown: How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time! It seemed that everyone I talked to this week - clients, friends, family - was experiencing a touch of overwhelm. They had a big goal or project, and it cast a shadow over them that felt dark and ominous. My … [Read more...]
Weekly Intention Video: Beauty
My Intention: I am joyfully open to the beauty and extravagance of nature, and I celebrate the same beauty that lives in me. … [Read more...]
I’m Pickin’ Up Good Vibrations
A few days ago, I received the following message through my Facebook account from Cari, a former colleague in Michigan: Dear Beth, I have started a project and you are a part of it. On March 1st, I began devoting a few minutes of my yoga practice and meditation to one of my Facebook friends and tomorrow is your day. My prayer for you tomorrow will be something along the lines of this...I wish … [Read more...]
The Truth Will Set You Free!
"What is your truth?" This is a question that comes up frequently during coaching sessions with my clients. As we navigate through a situation or sticking point, the bottom-line question is often "what's true?" We get so caught up in stories about how things "should" be or are "supposed" to work, that we lose touch with our core truth. We spend lots of time listening to others and looking outside … [Read more...]
When A Horse Meets An Overachiever
Confession time: I have some major attachment issues. Attachment - to an outcome, an agenda, a certain way of doing something - has been a theme throughout my life. Over the past year, I've made friends with my attachment tendencies. I recognize when it's happening, and I release and trust the process. At least, I thought I was. Last week, I took an afternoon off and spent time horsing … [Read more...]
Why Affirmations Don’t Work
What you resist, persists. When we're first recognizing that we want to make a change in our lives, affirmations are among the first pieces we try to snap into place in our self-help puzzle. The typical image conjured up when we hear "affirmations" is a person calmly stating what she desires in the present tense and repeating it regularly. "I am happy." "I am healthy and have lots of … [Read more...]
Success on Easy Street
Taking the "easy way" is not a particularly popular approach to success and life. Consider this quote: "The path of least resistance is the path of the loser" (H.G. Wells) When I tried to find a contrasting quote that stated the virtues of a life lived with ease, I came up empty-handed. Not one to force the matter, I'm going to rely on my own intuition and experience: forcing things - applying … [Read more...]
A Beginner’s Mind
When I decided to enroll in a coach training program, it took a while for a certain reality to fully sink in: I was going back to school. While it's not school in the traditional sense, it pushes the same buttons. The biggest button, lit up and flashing wildly, is the "good student" button. It's the voice that tells me that I have to be perfect, a straight-A student. It tells me I have do … [Read more...]