For decades, many of the great teachers in the personal development world have reminded us that lasting success is about far more than simply knowing what to do. Bob Proctor often suggested that the vast majority of our results are determined not by mechanics, but by mindset. Tony Robbins has expressed a similar truth in […]
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When we think about procrastination, we tend to focus on the obvious costs. The missed deadline. The unfinished report. The opportunity that slips away. We assume the greatest price we pay is lost time and work unfinished. I’m no longer convinced that’s true. I believe the real cost of procrastination is far greater – and
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One of the invitations I regularly find myself offering to clients is this: What if you were to simply entertain the idea? I don’t say it because I want them to make a decision. In fact, quite the opposite. I say it because I’ve noticed how often we dismiss possibilities long before we’ve given ourselves
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How is you summer lining up? I hope you are creating some intentional time for fun and rest and time doing things you love with people you like to hang out with. And I hope also that you are feeling you can still be connected to the goals and intentions you set for yourself this
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In my last blog, I wrote about The Version of You That Does Not Exist Yet and the uncertainty that often accompanies periods of growth and transformation. Typically, we like certainty. We like to have plans, goals, and clarity. Yet some of the most important seasons of growth ask something different of us. They ask
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Have you ever been in that space where you’ve achieved some goals and are even living the life you previously only dreamed of… Maybe you got the promotion or the raise, you lost the weight, moved into your dream home, or had the holiday of a lifetime. Fill in your own goals realised… For a
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I have been thinking a lot recently about the difference between pain and suffering. Not in an abstract philosophical sense, but in the deeply ordinary moments of life where something feels hard, disappointing, slow, uncertain, or painful, and then something else happens almost immediately afterwards inside of us, which makes it all worse. A difficult
“Learn to let ‘what is’ simply be. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” Attributed to Rumi A dear friend recently shared these words with me at exactly the right time. Perhaps you have experienced moments like that too. A conversation arrives when you need perspective. A book seems to find its
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There is a particular kind of discomfort that doesn’t come from pressure or overload. It comes from stillness. Not the chosen kind of stillness, the restorative pause at the end of a full day, but the kind that arrives uninvited. The kind that interrupts your pace, that quietly removes your ability to do what you
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There are moments in life that arrive without invitation. One minute you are moving freely through your days, making plans, building momentum, thinking ahead. And the next, everything changes. For me, it was a fall. A break to my right humerus and my left wrist. Two arms suddenly out of commission. A level of dependency
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