So you have good ideas, start a project, and then in a matter of days or weeks it falls away?

You get all jazzed up, ready to rock and roll, go to the office store to buy new supplies, or get a year membership to the gym, and by week 3, life happens and you’re hitting a motivation dip?

I know that feeling. And so do most of my clients, until they make this shift.

They do one thing…keep going. That’s it. But how, right? They have full lives, families, and unexpected stuff happen to them, just like you.

Successful peeps, like my Grammy award winning clients, or single mom’s running a business clients, share a few things in common.

BUT they are not smarter than you. They do not have more resources than you when they first start. And no, they weren’t just born to be successful (that’s the...

Ever ask yourself, "Where do I start?".

This Q comes up with every client I have, and is often the reason people seek me out in the first place. It sounds like:

"My business is starting to take off, and now I have more clients and they call me at all hours of the day and my social life is dying off because I love my work.  How do I do it all?"

Or sometimes it sounds like:

"I have really low energy, and I have young kids, and work part time, and run the household, where do I start without something important falling through the cracks?"

And we always fix overwhelm the same way.

We start with you.

At the center of all these moving pieces, your work, family, social life, health is one thing. You.

And trying to fix any of the moving pieces first would be like putting a new tire on a br...

Do friends, coworkers, clients seem to gravitate to you and open up? Do they confide in you, seek you out to be a sounding board, want your ideas, or trust you to lend a hand?

And it's so easy for you to be in that role. You love giving ideas, encouragement and helping others.

For every client I have, this is their greatest asset and biggest problem.

In just the last two weeks, at least three clients shared that they feel like a fraud, because everyone sees them as the strong successful one, but secretly they don't really feel like that.

They feel human and messy and unsure. You know, like the rest of us!

One client, with an amazing career, secretly binges on junk food at night to distract from how lonely she feels.

Another client, the go-to person for seemingly everyone around her, is secretly...

Imagine, a splash, followed by thud.

Last week I was standing on the edge of a bridge with a client of mine, she flew in for a one day personal transformation retreat with me. We were throwing rocks into the river 25 feet below. On each heavy stone she had written a word that summed up one thing that used to weigh her down in her career, relationships and health that she no longer struggles with.

Another, splash, thud, and she felt the weight she has carried around for over 10 years sink away, washed clean.

But, none of this would have meant jack squat if we hadn't done something really important first: Help her get over what other people thought of her.
 

And that didn't just happen in the moment her burdensome graffiti clad rocks broke the surface.

It happened in small steps every day over t...