You did it! Setting big goals, working on them patiently bit by bit, and reaching those goals is an awesome feat. Take a moment to appreciate your effort, persistence, and a job well done. But the work isn’t over quite yet. How satisfied are you with the outcome? How much fulfillment have you experienced from reaching this goal? What has…
Did you set your very-detailed goals? Awesome! And you broke the big goals down into do-able pieces? Outstanding! You also prioritized and scheduled your list of do-able tasks into a clear-cut daily, weekly, and monthly plan to get them done? Great job! So, what did you get done last week to work toward your big goal? *MORE CRICKETS* Again, it’s…
Happy New Year! Congratulations on creating some truly powerful goals for the year ahead. So, what are you doing in the coming days, weeks, and months to reach those goals? *CRICKETS* Oh. Hey, that’s okay! So your plan to reach those goals wasn’t as detailed as you thought it was. Now is your chance to be more clear, move forward,…
Is everyone around you working on their New Year’s Resolutions? Maybe someone you know has already started living out their new intentions? Maybe they’ve already reached their goals and have started new ones? Some might even have their goals all set for New Year’s Day, but plan to party as heavily as possible until then. Yet others won’t make any…
A brand new moment has begun! You’ll no doubt have many more moments to come in this life, but never will one be exactly like this one. So why not broaden your horizons? Find out how that lengue taco tastes. Take a new route to work or school. Drop in on a kung fu class. Trying new things can help…
For many people, their daily schedules are packed full with work, school, and other activities from morning until night. Some are so busy that they have to schedule in “free time” to eat or relax. It’s no wonder people forget “why” they do what they do: Life Purpose. Why do we go to school? Why are we at this job?…
Are your days and nights starting to run together like a long sentence that keeps droning on and on without stopping or ending or changing pace or showing any kind of meaning in any one way or another? *GASP!* Are you always on the run to your phone to the conference room to the gym to your phone to the…
All of your friends have been talking about that trendy, new restaurant downtown. Everybody just loves it. They say things like, “The food is delicious!…The atmosphere is buzzing with life!…The two-hour wait is totally worth it!” Excited from all the hoopla, you decide to check it out for yourself. The food is awful. The service is terrible. You decide never…
In Part 1 of Finding Peace and Quiet, we discussed the topic of “noise” and the challenges of living and working in environments that are full of sonic unease and distraction. However, after you minimize or come to terms with all of the external sounds in your environment, you’re still left with your many thoughts and internal dialogue, which many…
Are you having trouble finding peace and quiet? It’s literally a ‘noisy’ world out there. Depending on where you live or work, you may experience all kinds of sounds including traffic or pedestrians passing by, or a co-worker in the opposite cubicle nervously cracking their knuckles and sighing all day. You might even have a barky dog in the neighborhood…