A passionate coach, teacher, and traveler trying to share some life lessons and good vibes.
Well not a real fire. Imagine the conversations around that fire though. Talking bout hey now (hey now). Iko Iko un-day. Jock-a-mo fee-no ai na-né. Jock-a-mo fee na-né. Isn't there so much to learn from our Grandparents and the music they listened to? I really think grandparents make the best mentors. Unfortunately, I never had …
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So a ripe tomato, a tennis racket, and a loose goose walk into a bar... I was hoping a punch line came to me, but I have nothing. I took my first tennis lesson recently. I've been playing recreationally with some friends, but wanted to learn a little more about how to play the game …
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I've already wrote an entire blog post based on a t-shirt I bought. That post was titled "Be All to All". I liked the way that post came out so I'm going to talk about what came up for me from another shirt I purchased in Thailand. The shirt has one of the characters from …
"Nobody can tell you. There's only one song worth singing." These are the opening words from a popular song titled "Make Your Own Kind of Music" performed by Mama Cass Elliot from The Mamas and Papas. You may recognize this song if you have ever seen the tv show Lost. It plays multiple times throughout …
“We do not create abundance. We create limitation.” - Arnold Patent Most of us don’t realize how easy life can be when we live with our eyes closed. We create this place in our minds that will keep us safe. Our ego’s main goal is to remind us of things that will cause us harm …
The word 'transformation' is often a common theme during the Christmas season. In many famous holiday classics, we see our favorite characters experience personal transformations. Oftentimes, the protagonist is faced with a challenge, but soon receives mystical assistance from, sometimes, a literal guardian angel. The characters I’m particularly thinking of are George Bailey and Ebenezer …
I’ve never considered myself to be a “good” writer. I was a numbers kid (as if there is even such a thing); math was my subject. It came easy to me, so I always loved working with numbers. During my freshman year of college, I received my lowest grade of all time, in a mandatory …
This post is long overdue, but I thought it was important to share. We are living in such a distinctive era of human history. One which none of us have experience and few could have predicted. In the United States, we are closing in on one month of mandatory lockdown, making this situation impossible to …
“Conceal don’t feel, don’t let them know.” I hope some of you can recognize this quote, but maybe you can’t recite random Disney lyrics as I can. This was in two separate songs in the popular movie ‘Frozen’. These words were the advice that Elsa’s parents gave her when trying to deal with her magic …
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So this is Christmas and what have you done? Another year over and a new one just begun. This is clearly a Christmas themed post with many questions to help you think about your year 2019 and what you can do to make 2020 even better. Some of the lines and questions are corny so …
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