Who Do You Really Wanna Be?
I was new to pro-am dancing and was in a group class, learning the basics of Night Club Two-Step. I always dreaded stepping in with a partner to learn the basics. I was sure to step on some toes! But this particular time, I stepped on the floor with a very kind man, who ended […]
DOES DESIGNING AN EXTRAORDINARY YEAR REALLY WORK?
“Well, if everyone is having such extraordinary years, let me hear some stories so that I can drag my ‘backside’ to the starting line!” And no, my client did not use the word “backside!” But he had read about my new workshop, the first of 2021, and truly wanted to be among the people planning […]
Three Gems to Insure an Extraordinary Year
I was literally doing some kind of funky dance. It was the first year that I had planned an “extraordinary year.” I had achieved my major goal and marked it off my list. It was only month five. I have no idea what kind of dance I was doing, but I was doing it with […]
How World Changers Create Extraordinary Years
“Well, you have just ruined the way I do my life!“ was my tearful response to what my mentor had just said to me. “You can certainly choose not to plan your life, but if you don’t, we call that ‘drifting’! And always remember that ‘drifting’ will take you to a destination that you would […]
The 5 Secrets World Changers Know about Giving
“Please! Me! Please, please, please!” The village children, with an eagerness bordering on desperation, pleaded for the gifts I had for them. You see, I had just come down from summiting Mount Kilimanjaro. But these children were not new to me. I had met them the day that we had signed in at the gate […]
The Healing Power of “Presence”
“I don’t know how to reach you,“ I whispered in tears. The person on the screen in front of me said, “I have no idea what you mean!“ It was an excruciatingly painful moment. I was in the midst of wrestling with something deep within. And I knew at that moment I was alone. Very […]
World Changers and their Faith
“I don’t even really want to be alive! I’ve lost everything that really matters to me, and I cannot imagine things getting worse!“ When I said that to my mentor and coach, wasn’t she supposed to say, “Oh my goodness, I am so sorry this is happening to you?“ Instead, she looked at me with […]
World Changers on Fire!
“Why don’t you stay here and enjoy the fire and let someone else do this?“ Little did he know that the fire that was driving me was not the fire in the fireplace. It was the fire in my belly and the fire on my back side. It was Christmas morning, very early, still dark […]
World Changers Refuse for their Lights to Be Dimmed!
“Please pull the car over immediately,” I said with some urgency. I was frantically searching my purse. The driver pulled into a parking lot. I hopped out and ran 2 1/2 blocks back to the woman standing on the sidewalk. She had a sign that said, “Please help with formula and diapers!” A baby in […]
Ripping Up 5 Myths about World Changers
“I’ve always had that deep longing and yearning you’ve been writing about. I love reading it, and I wish I could be that. But it’s too late for me! Too much sewage under my proverbial bridge!” That is just one of the hundreds of cries for help that have landed in my email box over […]