The Problem With Goals That Don’t Fit We’re heading into goal-setting season. Whether it’s corporate performance goals, New Year’s resolutions, or personal ambitions, this is the time of year when we’re asked to define what we want to achieve. But here’s the problem: most people set goals that don’t actually align with who they are.Continue reading “Aligning Your Goals With Your Mission, Passion, and Purpose”
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Beyond Values: Discovering Your Mission, Passion, and Purpose
Values Are the Foundation—But They’re Not the Whole Picture In my last post, we talked about identifying your core values—the invisible compass guiding your life. If you haven’t done that work yet, I encourage you to start there. Because values are the foundation of everything we’re about to build. But here’s the truth: knowing yourContinue reading “Beyond Values: Discovering Your Mission, Passion, and Purpose”
Understanding Your Values: The Invisible Compass Guiding Your Life
The Compass You Didn’t Know You Had Have you ever had a strong reaction to something someone said—and couldn’t quite explain why it bothered you so much? Or felt drawn to a person, opportunity, or cause in a way that just made sense, even if you couldn’t articulate it? That’s your values at work. YourContinue reading “Understanding Your Values: The Invisible Compass Guiding Your Life”
Discovering Your Core Values: The Foundation of Authentic Living
Foundations of Success: Intention – Choosing On Purpose
It’s Not Just That You Show Up—It’s How You can have awareness. You can be willing. You can know your values. But if you’re not intentional about how you act on all of that? You’re just going through the motions. Intention is the bridge between knowing and doing—done with purpose. It’s the difference between busy-nessContinue reading “Foundations of Success: Intention – Choosing On Purpose”
Foundations of Success: The Importance of Awareness
You Can’t Build on Ground You Haven’t Surveyed We’ve all heard the saying: “If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.” In the real world, that translates to something more honest: know yourself, know what you impact, and know why you’re doing it—or you’ll be miserable. I’ve faced retaliation.Continue reading “Foundations of Success: The Importance of Awareness”
Foundations of Success: Unglamorous Work That Changes Everything
You See the Outcome. You Don’t See the Work. When people come to me with frustrations about their career or life, it often sounds like a complaint about someone else. “Why did she get promoted and not me?” “How does he afford that house?” “They just got lucky.” But underneath that complaint is usually aContinue reading “Foundations of Success: Unglamorous Work That Changes Everything”
The Hidden Power of Reflection: Looking Back to Move Forward
🍂 Why Reflection Matters In life and career coaching, we often encourage clients to look forward—not backward. Therapy is where the past is unpacked, while coaching is focused on building the future. And yet, I believe there’s a place for reflection. Not the kind of reflection that traps us in regret, but the kind thatContinue reading “The Hidden Power of Reflection: Looking Back to Move Forward”
The Filing Cabinet of Life: Experience Fuels our Foundation
There’s a simple truth I keep coming back to: every moment is a choice. We don’t get to decide which moments will be perfect and which will be tragic. Life has a way of handing us both; sometimes in the same week, sometimes in the same breath. What we do get to decide though, isContinue reading “The Filing Cabinet of Life: Experience Fuels our Foundation”
One Foot in Front of the Other: A Moment for Grace and Realignment
🌿 Progress Over Perfection—In Work, in Grief, in Healing At the end of the last post, we talked about the idea of progress over perfection. And as I sit here now, writing this, I realize it’s time to share something more personal—because this lesson has been living inside of me for the past several months.Continue reading “One Foot in Front of the Other: A Moment for Grace and Realignment”