Know anyone who tells you “life got in the way” of what they wanted?
Have you ever been going along just fine in your business and your life, and then all of a sudden an event occurs- seemingly out of nowhere? Maybe a loved one had an accident, maybe your spouse lost their job, maybe a snowstorm came in and you lost your electricity, or another natural disaster. I call this “life getting in the way.” On April 28th, life got in the way for me. On this date, I was informed that my father got into a big accident – a fall. It
How to break up with the ‘nice to do’ on your to do list
Today’s topic: breaking up with your nice to-do tasks. Sounds great, but why would you want to do that, anyhow? Well, often when we are trying to get ahead of our to-dos, we put our head down and to go through the list, and doing that results in a feeling of being depleted. Or, perhaps there are feelings of working a lot and not getting anywhere. It’s very demotivational. These things are un-fun – and as a result, we procrastinate and we get distracted. All of the things that we
How to cut your decision time from 20 days to 15 minutes and feel peaceful
Hello and welcome to ‘Nature Today’ with Carol. I recorded the video outdoors, and it is a beautiful May day here in New Hampshire.Today is about overwhelm and how it impacts decision making. When overwhelmed, decisions can be really hard. I just got off a call with a client and she was feeling rather overwhelmed with a big decision she had to make. She is in several courses right now to do several certifications. She needed to decide, do I go for my big certification in November, or do I
Meet Husain, the PhD, who could not find order
Hey everybody. Carol, back here with the second video lesson, I’m very excited to see you all. In this lesson I wanted to give you a real live example, and the example I want to really highlight today is somebody that- I’ll be honest with you – I never thought would would come into my world and be so blessed by me, and whilst he’s no longer a client, he was really a special person. Let me tell you what happened. Read on or watch the video. His name is
Opportunity in a recession
Today I’m addressing some big stuff. We are on the absolute brink -and some people may say we already are- in an economic crisis and doom and gloom and recession. And I’m here to state it and not to get caught up in it. And…with every problem there’s an opportunity and there’s a key point to learn. The key is to be prepared. Read on or watch the video I’m going to tell you a little story, and this story has to do with me, back in 2009 when we
Spring out of stuck
This strategy will surprise you How have you been feeling lately? Maybe you’ve been trying to get someplace and you just can’t get there. Maybe you’ve been trying to reach a new health goal, you’ve been trying to reach a new business goal, you’ve been trying to just get on, stuck in your life, and it’s spring and you’re feeling like you are ready to pop and want to do these things….but you’re not sure how. Read on or watch the video The Surprising Strategy I’m going to illustrate a
3 ways to get unstuck quickly
Why bother, when you just keep failing, anyhow? You set a goal. You watch “stuff” get in the way. You don’t hit the goal. You feel defeated. Rinse, repeat. Why bother, right? The “why bother” response certainly makes logical sense. Have you considered what else might be at play with this response, and what you might do to turn this “failure loop” around? Today I will review 3 three ways that you can get unstuck more quickly. A lot of these sound really easy, and doing them is NOT “really
3 steps to break free of “shoulds”
You should read this! What’s a “SHOULD”? That’s the ‘I should do this, I should do that’ and it’s interesting that there can sometimes be a feeling of guilt. If we are not congruent with what we really want, it’s almost like someone saying ‘calm down’ when you are really angry – it doesn’t really ever work! Well, it’s the same thing that’s happening to you and to me when I say ‘I should …’. Sometimes it’s ‘I should be more like ….’ (you fill in the blank). This could
How do NEW opportunities affect your time management?
Hint: it’s much more than time Before we dive into today’s topic, I have a big announcement: Monday (tomorrow) from 11am to 5pm EST, there is a Neurodivergent Superpowers Summit that I’ve been invited to speak at. It’s free to join, here’s the link – be sure to sign up to get the recordings even if you can’t make it! Now, let’s discuss time management in a different way than perhaps you may have been thinking: time management for things that are new. If we have our own business, that
3 ways to make sure your organizational efforts are not wasted
Secret struggles and their surprising solutions It’s a good time to talk about physical clutter because most of us (at least in the Northern Hemisphere), are still by and large in our homes. We’re not spending quite as much time outdoors. So it’s a beautiful time to really take a look around our homes as it gets a little bit brighter and nicer out because we want to make sure that we’re ready to go outdoors; we’re ready to feel free (not guilty) about doing that. It also helps us