Balancing a Job and a Business

Sometimes taking the route of working while building your business on the side, is best of both worlds.  By keeping one foot in the familiar, steady paycheck of being an employee, while dipping your toes into the refreshing waters of entrepreneurship, you may lessen the stresses of self-employment.  This gives you time to test those [...]

Did You Really Think Your Path Would Be Straight?

Remember that girl who sat next to you in fourth grade and said she wanted to be a marine biologist?  Yes, the same girl you knew all through high school that took all the science courses. Now you’ve connected on Facebook only to discover that she actually is a marine biologist.  Do you wonder how [...]

Finding Life Direction, Emma’s Story

Emma sat and looked defeated.  A pretty, forty-something mother of two college students, Emma’s life appeared on the outside to be typical.  Marriednearly 24 years, successfully raised two beautiful boys, she worked as an office manager for a small manufacturing company and she and her husband Dan went out for dinner together almost every Friday [...]

Shift Your Confusion to Clarity!

“We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own [...]

Ahhh, Love

Love.  It’s the magical thing that touches us all.  Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s not.  Love is such a diverse thing.  I believe it is the strongest emotion, the most powerful force, and the most difficult to understand.  Love is not just romantic, it relates to how we feel about our children and family.  Love [...]

How Do You Define Success?

What is your definition of ‘Success?’  It’s different for everyone.  For some, it may mean a large income and big house.  For others, it’s the achieving a big goal, like completing a marathon, and for others still, it may mean simply feeling happy.  Have you ever defined what your successful life would be like? Sometimes, [...]

Gratitude for the Journey

The Path that Leads to Me I gave a presentation yesterday on the power and energy in our words.  This is an important subject to me because I believe that words are very precious things and should be used with care. One of the reasons why I discovered the power in words was because of [...]

Spring into Action With a Plan

Spring is here! The shortened daylight, colder weather, festivities, concerns and added burdens of the winter months have come to an end. The brighter weather has lit a bit of a fire under me and given me new energies to put into my goals.  This is perhaps because spring is the season of change and [...]