The end of summer is here and fall is just around the corner. I’ve always liked this time; probably because it feels like the start of a new year. In September, kids have gone back to school, the leaves begin to turn and the weather gets cooler. There is a real change in the air. […]

 Here’s a blog you may want to bookmark and come back to from time to time. I’ve been coaching for more than 15 years and I have given a lot of pep talks in my day, to myself and others. I also give them frequently during Wake Up Your Week. I’d say it’s a main […]

In my last blog, you read how my negative personality traits were impacting my life when I first started coaching. When my coach told me to look at my parents’ traits, I realized I had my own version of all of them, the good and the bad. One of my Dad’s traits struck me in […]

I hereby grant you permission to dream about your job. This is your official permission slip. Want to know how to use it to its fullest extent? Read on. The average American lifetime includes 90,000+ hours of work time. If you are not using those hours to live out a dream, you might be feeling […]

  I was jogging around 8:30am on a very cloudy Saturday morning and I observed a girl of about three years old entering an empty playground with her father. She had kind of a funny look on her face and it got me wondering. What was she thinking? I came up with several theories:– Where […]

  I have a great life, but I am always at work on something, because if you aren’t growing, you’re atrophying. And if you aren’t admitting you can be a nut sometimes, you aren’t telling the truth! A few months back, I decided I was ready to stop being such a nut on Mondays. The […]

There is something that I have really NOT wanted to talk about lately. You see, about three years ago a dream was born. Let me explain. I’ve ALWAYS dreamed of teaching people how to tell the truth and deal with hard stuff. I am passionate about peace in their lives, and I see this as […]

I believe we were meant to be happy. I am also pretty certain it was meant to be a challenge to get and stay happy or else we’d take it for granted and get bored. So then, life is about the pursuit of happiness. I used to be generally unhappy and now I am generally […]

When I first started coaching, I was 75 pounds overweight and desperate to lose it. I assumed that my work with my life coach, Lauren Zander would be about my body. Not so. Lauren told me I had to change my personality first, because that was what was impacting my body. What did my personality […]

Guess what the most powerful coaching is about careers? Strengths and weaknesses? Your resume? Reaching out to everyone you know? Nope, it’s this: Plan TIME to work on your career. Doesn’t that seem so simple? In the Handel Method®, we teach people to see that thoughts lead to feelings and feelings lead to actions, which […]

  Guess why I chose teaching elementary school as my career when I was in college? Because ALL I knew was this:1) I wanted to help people.2) I wanted to be able to get a job.3) I like a demanding atmosphere with lots to do. It seemed like a sound list of criteria at the […]

I’ll never forget the day I walked away from my life in Los Angeles. It was a beautiful southern California day in the spring of 2005. I sat on the sidewalk outside a busy post office with a backpack and my laptop, waiting for a friend to pick me up. I weighed 265 pounds and […]