Making Personal Change
(Note: this beautiful image is from artist and blogger Rose Deniz. Her work is fabulous. Check it out.) It’s a funny thing about “goals” – the term has come to be associated with a pumped-up, superhero, muscle-man connotation. We’ve come to think of achieving goals like climbing to the top of some mountain, using all [...]
I don’t know why the thought occurred to me, but it did. It showed up suddenly, fully formed, like a telegram delivered. I was sitting in my office at home, feeling disappointed about something that hadn’t worked out the way I’d hoped. And suddenly popped up the thought: “Instead of thinking about your disappointment, Tara, [...]
Today I’m happy to welcome life coach and fellow bogger Melinda Elliott. I really enjoy her blog The Easy Place, where she writes about growing our self awareness, one step at a time, so that we can create our lives more consciously. Read on to soak up Melinda’s wisdom. Your blog is called “The Easy [...]
“I’ve been thinking of a plan of action to remove myself from the situation without feeling like I just wasted 2 years.” Katie shared this in a recent blog post comment. We’ve all been there – feeling regret or frustration about a work or relationship situation, and feeling like we’ve wasted years. Katie’s comment got [...]
I was thinking about people-pleasing the other day – why we do it and why it’s so hard to stop. (I think about people-pleasing often, since I struggle with it and am trying to people-please less.) The thought occurred to me that maybe people-pleasing is a kind of substitute, a kind of crutch that we [...]
Today is part four of Wise Living’s series on Slog vs. Leap Challenges. If you didn’t read the previous posts, click here to get oriented to slogs and leaps, and to what this series is all about. Today, you’ll hear from writer Ali Hale about her slog and leap challenges, and what’s she’s learned about [...]
Today is part three of Wise Living’s four-part series on Slog vs. Leap Challenges. If you haven’t been following the series, you might want to start with this post; it will tell you what the heck we mean by “slogs” and “leaps.” Today, we have the privilege of hearing from Judy Hamilton. Judy is the [...]
In April, I wrote an article for The Change Blog that struck a chord with many readers. The article was about a pattern I had started to see – in my own life, in my friends’ and clients’ lives, about challenges. We were valorizing and glamorizing challenge – assuming that tough challenges were good for [...]
True surrender is easily misunderstood as passivity, as doing nothing. It’s actually a change in stance, a change in state of being. It’s a softening, a coming home to. It’s what we receive when we’ve made peace with life, and become its partner, arm in arm. Before surrender, we act alone. We act because life [...]
Hi there, Today I’m over at The BridgeMaker, writing about the topic of two-inch shifts. If you feel (now or ever) stuck, striving, trying…but not finding flow or results or peace, this post is for you. Sending love to you all, Tara
