In From Strength to Strength, my latest pick for the Life Coaching Book Club, I found this quote: “You Westerners see art as being created from nothing. In the East, we believe that the art already exists, and our job is simply to reveal it. It is not visible because we add something but because we […]
This time last year, I made this commitment as part of my Journey to 50: I would exercise every day for the next three months. And I did. When that quarter was over, my body wanted to keep going. Since then, I’ve been exercising at least five days a week for the past year. I […]
It was high tide. And we were on a bangka (boat) heading towards Apo Island to swim with the giant turtles. As Atomic Kitten sang, “the tide is high but I’m holding on,” I was holding on for dear life, my fists clenched white-knuckled around one of the bangka’s posts as the boat bounced on […]
In You Could Make this Place Beautiful, her memoir about divorce and healing, the poet and author Maggie Smith wrote: “My children’s father has taught me many lessons, painfully, and the pain has changed me. “I want to become a different kind of student. “To be a different kind of student, I need a new teacher.” […]
Ten years ago, I left the job I’ve had for 16 years. The freedom! The excitement! All that time to do what I wanted to do that I never had time for because of work: reading, napping, knitting, watching hours of TV! After a decade, the question that’s been coming up in my head is: […]
At the end of the month, I’m turning a milestone age. Yup, it’s exactly the number in the photo above. Because it feels like such a momentous birthday, I wanted to do something meaningful to prepare. (I was inspired by what one client did when she was about to turn 40). I set up a […]
