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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”

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”

The Power of the Micro: How Small Choices Shape Big Outcomes

🎯 Big Goals Start with Small Moments We all have big dreams.Retire early.Travel the world.Earn that next promotion.Build something meaningful. And then we wake up, check our email, hit snooze, scroll, get stuck in back-to-back meetings—and wonder why we feel so far from the life we want. Here’s the truth we don’t talk about enough:YourContinue reading “The Power of the Micro: How Small Choices Shape Big Outcomes”