Month: January 2022
Are You Afraid To Fail?
Do you know what most human beings FEAR the most? I’m not talking about phobias like snakes, spiders, and heights. I am talking about what people are most AFRAID of in their everyday lives. The #1 Fear is Failure. I know this first hand because a few years ago, I left a 30-plus year career in the television business…
Ep #21: Embracing Failure
Something that comes up continually in my sessions with clients is the relationship between failure and success. So many of us understand our fear of failure. However, a fear of success is much more difficult to identify, and I have come to realize that failure and success are inextricably intertwined, with fear being the glue…
Are You OverScheduled?
“I am SOOO busy!!” This was my mantra for years. I used to be so busy managing my television career, my family, my home, and my friends, that I felt like I was just a hamster on a wheel. If multitasking and scheduling were an Olympic sport, I would have received a gold medal. But it wasn’t……
Ep #20: Are You Too Busy?
In the last 50 years, the word busy has become synonymous with a sense of importance. Something about being busy makes people feel needed or wanted, and it’s something we overthinkers strive for. I’m noticing more and more clients complaining about feeling busy, but the truth is that busyness is something we’re doing to ourselves…
Sometimes Less Is More
As someone who loves walking through forests, admiring beautifully landscaped gardens, and eating fresh vegetables, I do NOT have a green thumb. I have what is known as a black thumb or a “numb thumb.” I have never successfully grown an edible vegetable nor maintained an herb garden. I live on a beautiful property with hundreds of mature trees and plants,…
Ep #19: Lessons I Learned from a Houseplant
I know, this episode title sounds irrelevant, but stay with me here. I come from a long line of garden hobbyists, all of whom had the passion, appreciation, and patience required for nurturing plants. And then there’s me. While I love looking at my gardens, I don’t have what you’d call a green thumb. But…
New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work
Here we are into Day 5 of the New Year, and due to the new Covid variant running amok, it’s starting to feel like Groundhog Day: The 2022 Edition. We are all tired of this pandemic, but the pandemic does not seem to be tired of us. Silly me, I thought if we washed our…
Ep #18: Why I Don’t Believe in New Year’s Resolutions
Most resolutions fail by the middle of February, and they often don’t even make it that far. The overall success rate for New Year’s resolutions is around 8%. So, if you’re listening in real-time, you’ll be a few days into 2022 and you may even have fallen off whatever wagon you started the new year…