I’ve always felt I should know my Calling. My True Work. My Passion. My Purpose. I looked at all of these things as just different ways of identifying some core Truth just waiting to be seen, some inherent compass point, some something that would allow me to navigate more easily through opportunities, decisions, relationships, and… Read More
No, not the big transformations that come with a big whooshing kaboom No, not the kind that shake the foundation, shift the tectonic plates, re-order the landscape, knock us reeling…. No, not the CHANGES that come from the big stuff, the overwhelming stuff, even the overwhelmingly great stuff…. This is about pocket sized change. Little… Read More
Why does it feel so risky to try something new? Maybe because by adulthood, we have sort of found our groove or grooves, we do what we’ve done. And maybe we just don’t try too many new things after a while. We’re used to a baseline level of competence maybe. We’re used to knowing. Parenthood… Read More
As I help others navigate through transitions and choices and as I navigate through my own, some of the questions I hear myself asking over and over are about defining or identifying the downsides– So often, we have a longing and are pulled to do something– start a website, write a book, learn something, take… Read More
I’ve been reading this rather amazing book called Seven Thousand Ways to Listen by Mark Nepo. There are about seven thousand useful tidbits tucked in there already and I am only through part 1… but the one I wanted to bring to the surface today is about goals. Specifically, he brought up how ideas become… Read More
Sometimes change is scarier than staying on our current path. So we stay. Where we are is, after all, known. Familiar. The path we trace as we circle and circle is covered in our own footprints. We know the territory. We know the shadows. We know it. Even if it is uncomfortable, there is comfort… Read More
