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No one is Paying Attention to You

December 17, 2010

People don’t notice your mistakes as much as you think they do. It’s a law of the universe. Okay, maybe not of the universe, but it is a law of human psychology. It’s called the Spotlight Effect in social psychology. There’s a study where college students are asked to do something super embarrasing…wear a Barry Manilow t-shirt [...]

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Achieve your Goals Despite Doubt and Fear

December 2, 2010

One of my clients just sent me this quote:  “Your goals… minus your doubts… equal your reality” – Ralph Marston Exactly.  Have you ever said, “I wish I didn’t want X?”  That’s because you think you can’t have it. And because it hurts to think about it. It hurts to think about it because when [...]

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When Fear Is Good

November 30, 2010

If you want to be happier and more enlightened, consider scaring the crap out of yourself once and a while.  We’ve all heard Eleanor’s famous advice, ‘Do one thing everyday that scares you’. But why? I’m always droning on and on about the importance of doing what feels good; of throwing out the shoulds and [...]

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Much More to Presence

October 13, 2010

Mindfulness is what we practice to cultivate presence. Presence is the state of being totally immersed in what’s right in front of us. The perk of presence that I usually focus on is that fear, worry, negative thoughts fall away. This is because those things do not exist in the Now. They are completely and [...]

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Ask and you shall Recieve

August 22, 2010

I went for a walk the other day, not feeling so great. I was filled with worry and self-judgment. Did some self-coaching that morning and it just wasn’t giving me the relief I was looking for. The worry was around getting pregnant again. Or more accurately, the fear of not getting pregnant again. The self-judgment [...]

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Complaining and YOU

July 4, 2010

  In the last post about being complaint-free, I mentioned that it was pretty easy for me with one small exception. Here it is.     I’m pretty good at not complaining about other people or circumstances. Yes, I feel frustration at circumstances and notice unflattering things about others, but when I notice those thoughts [...]

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