There are some misconceptions that are common when it comes to your purpose and mission. These create confusion and cause so many to waste precious time and resources when they could actually be making lots of progress. A few of the most common misconceptions are: If you have a purpose …
Read More »QUIZ: Are You a Spiritual Capitalist or Are You Living Unfulfilled
Take this simple quiz to determine whether you are living up to your full spiritual potential. Answer each questions on a scale of 1-5 with 1 being never and 5 being always. Do you feel like you have more to offer the world, like you aren’t quite fulfilling your potential? …
Read More »With School Starting, Increase Your Connection Time With Your Kids
Your kids are your eyes and ears to the world; they see and experience things each moment. Some of these things bounce off of them and they keep moving. Some things they see or experience affect them – positively or negatively. They need your help to interpret, understand and process …
Read More »Let Your Kids Define What A Great Life Means To Them
When you ask most kids what success is, they share the views their parents have given them – money, nice house, vacations, good job. Without the prompting, what would your kids have said success or a great life means, and how do they see it in their lives? Parents think …
Read More »14 Parenting Styles That Won’t Get Your Kids Ready For Life
How did you learn to be a parent? And how do you know when your parenting is helping to create a wise and capable future adult and when it is getting in the way? Having spent years working with parents, I see some repeating parenting styles – some productive, many …
Read More »Message To Our Kids: Who You Are Is Just Right
Our world speaks at us. It tells us what is valuable, what success looks like, what to believe, what to drive, how to live and on and on… With so many “directives” coming at us, how do we help our kids discover, develop and live who they really are? We …
Read More »With Kids, Focus On Progress Over Perfection
We want our kids to succeed in life. That seems reasonable and loving. But the way we encourage them to get to that success may be unreasonable and unrealistic and do more harm than good. We want our kids to have straight As in school, get accepted to best colleges, …
Read More »5 Great Questions To Ask Your Kids
Parents tell – it’s what they do. That is until they stop doing it. For so many of us, we think our job as parents is to tell our kids how to be in life – what to believe, what to do, how to live and on and on. For …
Read More »Sometimes The Best Thing A Parent Can Say Is Nothing
Parents tell. It’s what we do. We have been on the planet longer than our kids so we think we know what they need and how they need it. Over-parenting – our parents did this. Their parents did this. It’s easy to see why it still happens. And I’ll agree …
Read More »Letting Go of Expectations
If you’ve been following me for any amount of time, you know how I love a good spiritual kick in the pants. Today I got it over and over, and I finally surrender to the message. The first thing I read this morning was a beautiful blog post by my …
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