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Vision boards are powerful tools that can help us live a life we love! I have good news: vision boards aren’t just a January thing! It’s never too late to set a vision for yourself! Our goals and action plans often fizzle or fall short because they aren’t grounded in a vision of what we […]

Career, Coaching, Joy, vision

January 25, 2021

Video: How to Make a Vision Board

Ditch the resolutions and join me for the #joyfulvision2021 Challenge! Leave 2020 behind and dare to dream a bold, joyful vision for 2021! I am SO excited to share 2 events happening in January to help you set a bold, joyful vision for 2021! #joyfulvision2021 Challenge: Vision Board Making Contest (1/2/21 @10am) Brave + Kind […]

Career, Coaching, Joy, vision

December 14, 2020

Creating a Vision for 2021

I like to push myself to practice what I preach so I pushed aside my introverted fears and limiting beliefs about doing social media live engagements and did 3 in one day yesterday promoting the IG Live I did with Ashley Freeman of Flourishing Work LLC. We had a wonderful conversation about how to choose […]

Career, Coaching, Joy, Self-Care, vision

September 28, 2020

Video: Choosing Joy (not Fear)

Thanks to Ashley S. Freeman, MBA and Flourishing Work LLC for having me as a guest blogger to write about how to thrive in challenging times! Ashley is a thoughtful and caring collaborator and an example of how to choose joy in your career. #careers #careerpivot #choosejoy #jobsearch

Career, Coaching, Job Search, Self-Care, vision

September 17, 2020

How Strong Are Your Choice Muscles? Tips to help you thrive during challenging times (Guest Blog at Flourishing Work LLC)

Does the thought of your schedule overwhelm you or make you want to ignore it all together? I have worked with clients that have a hard time managing all the moving parts of their work and life. And I’ve been there myself! It’s easy to see how things quickly get to be too much with […]

Career, Coaching, Joy, Self-Care, vision

September 15, 2020

Got the Schedule Blues? 2 Tips to Get It Under Control

How could you start to choose joy today? It’s a new way of being for many of us but you can grow your choice muscles. Start today. Choose one moment, one feeling, one person, or one thing that brings you joy. Then rinse and repeat tomorrow. Before you know it, you’ll be a pro at […]

Career, Coaching, Joy, Self-Care, vision

September 12, 2020

Can You Choose Joy Today?

Out of curiosity to learn more about a current popular coach, I attended a “training” last week that promised job search tips, insider secrets and lots of other too good to be true promises. You know the kind. All fluff and no substance that are really just a marketing ploy to get you to buy […]

Career, Coaching, Joy, Self-Care, vision

September 11, 2020

Could You Use Some Support this Month?

Last week in one of my local mom groups, a mom reached out to ask if she could help match those in need of help with expenses with those who have extra funds to share. In that simple (and thoughtfully kind) message, she was able to coordinate helping 24 community members with over $3,000 in […]

Career, Coaching, Job Search, Joy, Self-Care, vision

August 10, 2020

How Can We Pay It Forward Today?

“And while we’re here, let’s get to our work!” Wes Moore closes his powerful Super Soul Sunday talk with these words having explained the importance in knowing the difference between our job and our work. Do these words excite you? Terrify you? Do they make you “nervicited” as my daughter likes to say? (nervous and […]

Career, Coaching, Job Search, Joy, Resume, Self-Care, vision

July 5, 2020

What’s Your Work? Can You Name It?

At the end of a difficult week for our country, I’ve seen many social media posts asking how they can help with creating the change needed to address our country’s racial injustice and systems of oppression. There are no clear or easy or one size fits all answers. But it is clear we all have […]

Civic Engagement, Coaching, vision

June 6, 2020

What Do I Do? Keep Choosing

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