Tips for Achieving Success without Burnout (My Interview with Jenn Racioppi)
When I first found out about this woman’s work, I knew I had found a kindred spirit: Jennifer Racioppi is a women’s health and success coach, and her motto is “Success isn’t a Race – it’s a RHYTHM.” I couldn’t have said it better myself 🙂 A few weeks ago we sat down to talk about flow states, self-care, change “taking time,” and how to avoid burn out. You can…
There will be moments when you’re tested
Times when it’ll feel like the challenges before you are insurmountable. Moments when your faith will falter – and your passion for your goal will be tried. There will be times when it’ll feel like it’s all more than you can handle. But when that happens, remember this: The rewards are given to those who persevere. To the ones who get tough when the tough gets going, to those who…
Meditations on Compassion
I just wanted to kill her. Metaphorically-speaking, of course, but I gotta tell you – this woman was driving me CRAZY. So crazy, in fact, that I needed to give myself an attitude adjustment. That course-correction, and how you can do the same for yourself, is the subject of this article. First, though, let me back up for a minute and set the scene. A few weeks ago I had…
A Few Thoughts on Isla Vista
On Saturday, May 24 (2014), a 22 year-old man drove to the Alpha Phi sorority house at UC Santa Barbara and opened fire, killing two young women and wounding another. By the time he was done that day, he had murdered seven people including himself. In the week or so that’s passed since, there’s been a number of questions in the media about this complex case – whether the event…
The Season of F***It (video interview – NSFW)
OK, so maybe “Not Safe For Work” is a bit of a stretch, but Jamie Greenwood – the subject of my newest interview – is a brassy broad and she curses a lot in this video 😉 It’s pretty funny, so earmuff any minors that might be in your immediate vicinity and give it a watch: We cover a lot of great material in this video (if I do say…
Transitioning into Action: Life-hacking Tips for Accomplishing Goals
I recently took a poll in the private group that accompanies my newsletter. I wanted to know where people were struggling and how I could help, and the results were overwhelmingly consistent: People wanted to know how to overcome procrastination, transform “bad” habits, and move into action. 10-4. This post goes out to all of you who are struggling in this department. I have some “life-hacking” tips that I’ll share…
The increasing need for therapy online
Psychotherapy, while surrounded by many myths and misconceptions, is an incredible tool for personal growth. Not only is this a statement that’s born out by the research, there’s also plenty of anecdotal support for the life changing benefits that therapy can offer – and I personally have gone on record as being not just an enthusiastic practitioner, but a personal advocate as well. Unfortunately, however, many people across the globe…
Knowing when to turn off the news
Whether we like it or not we live in a time where watching the news appears to be an exercise in anxiety and depression. Regardless of whether it’s local, international, cable, or evening – its producers rarely have something uplifting to report. Missing planes. Mud slides. Climate change. Colony collapse. I can’t remember the last time I watched or read the news and was left feeling optimistic about the future…
Transforming Impasses: What’s really happening when your clients get stuck
One of the primary benefits of being a coach, from my vantage point, is having a particular area of expertise – an issue or a challenge that you become really adept at working with. Tools are amassed, strategies develop, and any good coach ultimately cultivates a set of skills that’s effective for helping his or her clients to achieve certain types of goals. Unfortunately, however, we all know that some…
A novel approach for helping the homeless: My video interview with Doniece Sandoval of Lava Mae
Every once in a while something captures our attention, and we want to tell the world about it. Today is one of those days for me. As a longtime resident of San Francisco, I know too well that Silicon Valley can be simultaneously admired for its ingenuity, and reviled for its inability to use its creative and economic resources to help those who need it most. An organization has come…
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