Success is rarely a straight line; it's a winding journey filled with ups and downs. Embrace failure and rejection as part of your path and let them guide you. The detours and bumps in the road can provide valuable lessons, and in the end, they may be what you need most to lead you to your greatest fulfillment. 

Check out our latest blog! Our philosophy is to prioritize personal development tools FIRST so our clients do not approach their life’s challenges and issues the same they always have. We want more for them! The tools we teach are not just supplementary – they are essential to creating long-lasting and quality change.

You have the power to change your perspective. When you replace the words "should," "must," and "have to" with "choose to," "want to," or "get to," you regain control over your life.

Small victories compound over time, reinforcing the belief that you can achieve what you set out to do. 

Here's something we want you to keep in mind - you're much more than your achievements or setbacks. You're a person with inherent worth, irrespective of what you've done or not done.

As life coaches, we've often observed a universal yet overlooked truth: the way we allow others to treat us plays a significant role in shaping our relationships, self-esteem, and overall well-being.

As life coaches, we're thrilled to present our special podcast series this month, diving into the transformative wisdom of W. Timothy Gallwey's "The Inner Game of Tennis.”

A new practice that we have been encouraging our clients to implement in their lives is Daily Self-Compassion.

It has been a whirlwind for us the past few months, and we are excited to announce that our coaching podcast, Morning Intentions, will already be on its 100th episode this Friday, May 19th! What a journey it has been.

It has been nearly ten years since we first started coaching together, and what an incredible ten years it has been! Every day, we keep learning how to be the coaches we truly want to be and best serve our clients. From our first day coaching together, we’ve believed that coaching is a team approach to gaining understanding and solving problems. We are a team with our clients, and the two of us are a team together!

We have also been introduced more personally to the term “caregiver burnout.” We discussed burnout in a previous blog, but when we wrote that blog, the number of caregivers we had met was pretty limited. Caregiving can be stressful even if it only lasts a short while, and long-term caregiving stress and exhaustion need more attention and recognition.

Some of you have asked for more information about our new Morning Intentions podcast, which will begin on January 1, 2023. The most important part of our new podcast is that it will be a resource for everyone who joins us. Our podcast will be a coaching podcast, and you will learn tools as though you are coming in personally for coaching.

To show up as our best selves, we must be able to EXPRESS OUR EXPERIENCE of life with someone else. Being truly seen, heard, and known is essential to happiness. This means that we must be able to honestly express our past hurt, our current pain, our joy, our concern, our frustration, our confusion, our love, and every other experience we encounter in our lives. We must have someone to see, hear, and know us – our true authentic us.

Thanksgiving is here already. How can this be? It feels like just a few days ago we were enjoying the warm sun of spring and summer!

Are the people closest to you safe? Is your home safe? Is your workplace safe? Your answers to these questions are important. Very important. And we encourage you to take some time today to really think them through because in order to thrive and show up in life as the best version of yourself, your relationships, home, and work must be safe.

Annette and I are certified life coaches and have extensive training in personal growth and development, communication, Nonviolent Communication, the Enneagram, boundaries, self-love, and addiction. In addition, I am a certified health coach, meditation instructor, and now I am certified in goal success.

In a few short days, August will be coming to a close. Normally, the thought of the end of summer would have us feeling a little down. We LOVE summer! Yet this time around, we are actually excited for September to begin because that means there are only two weeks before the start of our BRAND-NEW Enneagram course, the Enneagram of Love!

Today, I want to share with you what happened to me last week that has me thinking a lot about joy and how important it is for all of us to spend time each day doing something we love – even if we only have a few spare minutes.

One issue that has been coming up in our practice quite frequently this summer is exhaustion from experiencing a lack of consideration and kindness. Life can be stressful enough – and being confronted with unkindness is difficult!

Through the years, I’ve learned how important empathy is to nurturing our relationships and processing our life experiences – and my current struggle confirms everything I’ve learned. I’ve really been needing some empathy lately!