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This happened about 15 years ago.  Since then, my life hasn’t been the same. I learned a HUGE lesson that I have never forgotten.  Here’s the story. I was looking forward to doing our annual visioning with my husband, Curtis. We had made a commitment to creating our life from a vision and had created […]

Today, I woke up mad.  I felt this anger as I sat down to do my morning writing. As I wrote about all the people, places and things that were pissing me off, I realized that my anger was a signal of something important.  Years ago, I took a year-long course in 5 element acupuncture.

This is a common question posed in many a book, TV show, and in real life. The answer almost every time is … give me the bad news first.  The reason is that we humans are wired to want to know the danger ASAP, so we can do something about it! Right after hearing the

My business is called Soul Driven Success, so, obviously, success is something that matters to me. I am a person who is goal-driven, so aiming for a dream or something I want always brings me joy.  Adding “Soul” as the driver of my desire for success was a shift I made a couple of decades

I want to begin by saying I do not like to fail. Just ask anyone who has played Yahtzee with me! I don’t like to lose.  What I have learned, though, from countless games and years in business is that it is inevitable!  Sometimes, I lose by just a little. Say 5 points, or my

When I was recording my very first podcast a couple of weeks ago with a very successful coach, I had expected we would be talking nuts and bolts kind of stuff.  Ann Farrell, my guest on that show, is someone I admire for many reasons. She has built her executive coaching institute to be one

This time of year, I am always reminded of heading back to school. Though school often begins in August, there is something about the week after Labor Day that brings back my school day memories.  In my memories of childhood and my experience with school, I was never too excited about some of the subjects

That is a quote by Maya Angelou. I was reminded of this quote when writing a recent article about my coaching journey. In my last post, I pulled out a section of this article which will be published for the Co-Active Training Institute in October about how important it is to get support. Especially for

I was recently asked to write an article for the Co-Active Training Institute on the topic of:  My Remarkable Journey Toward Becoming a Life Coach I looked at that title as the deadline approached and kept thinking,  What am I going to say?  What if nothing comes to me?  What’s so remarkable about my journey?”

In my last blog, I wrote about a trip I took to Lodi, CA and the song that I was reminded of with the same name – Lodi.  There were a couple of lines that stood out to me as I listened from the perspective that the story is one of feeling stuck and not