Thriving at sixty

One of the happiest moments is when you find the courage to let go of what you cannot change, and accept the way it is and isn't. That's when you will find freedom.  One story behind one of my happiest moments   I've been a member of Al-Anon since 1989. ...

Today I want to talk about fear again. I don't think we can hear enough about interrupting our fears. The opportunity is to discover how do you take action regardless of your fear? It isn't like fear is ever really going to disappear but we can walk alongside the fear...

I did a humorous post recently but I believe it is based on reality. I'll let you decide, the post went like this IT TAKES 6-8 PALLBEARERS TO LIFT YOU UP WHEN YOU ARE DECEASED. IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH IF YOU HAD 6-8 PEOPLE LIFTING YOU UP WHILE YOU...

The story started in 2016 when I went to Mexico and bought a timeshare. When I was discussing this transaction with a Mexican businessman, he asked me to look at the legal papers. After checking the name of the company I bought the share from, he told me to halt...

How do I discover my limits around finances? I have been in a recent inquiry discovering my blind spots and what is limiting me around finances. I always find being in an inquiry very useful. I've been in this inquiry for about five months. First I started the inquiry by...

I had a seventeen-year-old teen come to me for some coaching. He was to meet his grandmom and sibling for a birthday lunch in the next town over. The grandma and he had a disagreement about three months ago and she hadn't talked to him since then. The sibling and...

I belong to a group of coaches we are called the Ultimate Coaches run by Shawn Berman. She just started a Facebook live that runs Monday to Friday at 9:00 a.m. pacific and each day you can hop on and get some tips and coaching on your life. Each day...

Have you ever noticed that the more you complain, the less happy you are? I'm starting to coach people on a scale of 1-10 how high is your whineometer? When we can get present to the amount of complaining we do, we have a chance to shift it and our...

What does practice get to do with anything? YOU CAN'T HAVE MASTERY until you put in the time. In fact, it is common knowledge that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to be called a master of anything. In my book “Getting Unstuck” Chapter 9 is about practice, practice, practice....

I am continuing to share my 21-day challenge “Being Unstoppable and Getting Unstuck “. I highly recommend you do the challenge if you want to build muscle to be unstoppable. I will be running it on the 1st day of every month for 21 days. On the third and fourth...

I am continuing to share my 21-day challenge “Being Unstoppable and Getting Unstuck “. I highly recommend you do the challenge if you want to build muscle to be unstoppable. I will be running it on the 1st day of every month for 21 days. On the last podcast, we...

I just created a 21 day Being Unstoppable, Getting Unstuck challenge. It took me four months to create this challenge. I launched a Beta starting March 1st. I created this challenge so people could gain confidence in their ability to move forward regardless of any circumstances they are dealing with....

I am writing this because my 93-year-old mother has been very healthy and just died. We have been so blessed. She is upbeat and in most conversations, she brings out her harmonica and plays a tune and asks us to sing. The other day when she was going for lunch...

I am writing this because my 93-year-old mother has been very healthy. We have been so blessed. She is upbeat and in most conversations, she brings out her harmonica and plays a tune and asks us to sing. The other day when she was going for lunch at the independent...

Have you ever realized that maybe you could use some more tools in communicating with loved ones? I constantly am looking for methods to better my communication. Especially with my two daughters. Sometimes I think they come from Mars and I come from Jupiter. Ha! I read this awesome book...

Generosity can come in many forms from smiling, giving food, giving of your time. It doesn't have to be spending money and it can be. I'm inviting you to brainstorm with people all sorts of different ways to be generous. Once I saw an old man and woman sitting on...

The Christmas Holidays are over now. It would have been great if I could have downloaded the next 2 podcasts before Christmas. Some Circumstances arose and that did not happen. I believe the next two podcasts are well worthwhile to listen to for any holiday or any time of year,...

The Christmas Holidays are over now. It would have been great if I could have downloaded the next 3 podcasts before Christmas. Some Circumstances arose and that did not happen. I believe the next three podcasts are well worthwhile to listen to for any holiday so I will be downloading...

I've been committed to getting a few podcasts out before Christmas and I said I would do one for every day before Christmas which would have been 11 but that is not going to happen and I will have a few out at least 4 before Christmas. Yeah. I going...

Without Failure we can have no success. In my Experence Failure just means you failed to achieve the outcome you were striving for. In failing ask yourself several questions. What did you do that didn't work? What could you do next time to either succeed or push yourself forward closer...

Sometimes in life, we have times where we are going through challenges; It seems that at those times we must be willing to let go and Let God. In the last 6 months, I have gone through three deaths of young people. Two suicides one in my family the other...

This week will talk about Giving up the need to be always right. and the need for others approval The need to be Right: I think we all can own the need to be right from time to time. We love being right. If we are right someone is wrong....

Switch to draftPreviewUpdateAdd title There are numerous things to give up to be happy. Here is a list of only nine things to give up to be happy. Complaining Limiting Beliefs Blaming Others Negative Self-talk Dwelling on the Past Resistance to Change The need to impress others The need to...

There are numerous things to give up to be happy. Here is a list of only nine things to give up to be happy. Complaining Limiting Beliefs Blaming Others Negative Self-talk Dwelling on the Past Resistance to Change The need to impress others The need to be always right The...

There are numerous things to give up to be happy. Here is a list of only nine things to give up to be happy. Complaining Limiting Beliefs Blaming Others Negative Self-talk Dwelling on the Past Resistance to Change The need to impress others The need to be always right The...

When I was a little girl, just a toddler I was taken from my home, parents, and family and put in different foster homes until I was nine. I would frequently say as an Adult I was torn from my family and raised in foster homes. Words create our world....

I noticed that what shapes my actions is how I hold something, or perceive something. How something occurs for you can shape your actions. I discovered that I have been blind to an old conversation that shapes most of my actions. When I was a little girl, I was removed...

Expectations & holidays can lead to resentments. Try it out whenever you have an expectation, something should be a particular way. When it doesn't go the way you want it to you get resentful. Mothers day is a holiday Try to remember whatever you focus on manifests. So don't be...

ARE YOU STUCK in a story that leave you DISEMPOWERED? Picture this: I'm forty-six years old and get a phone call at 3:00 am. from my half-sister; our mother has just died unexpectedly in her sixties. My sister informs me that my mom's burial will be in three days. At...

I'm inviting you to look at Achnowlegemet in a way you may have never looked at before. Consider that when we acknowledge people they feel heard or understood and connected to you in a way that helps your communication flow better. You need to authentically acknowledge them and it is...

I have been dealing with pain in my feet and knee pain since July 2020. I finally went to my doctor in November and she sent me for X-rays. I had to wait until March to talk to a specialist about my knee and he told me I had Osteoporosis...

I know this might seem late to look at completing your 2020 and I promise if you do the work you will THRIVE! One way to get complete about 2020 is break your life up into a least 4 categories, I broke mine into 5. The first 4 are vital...

HOPE The feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best: H Help O One P Peron E Every Day Focus on one person you can help today. Ask yourself who could I help today? Where can I help today? What services...

MUCK filth, dirt or slime defamatory or sullying remarks mire, mud A state of chaos or confusion: (to make a muck of things) MAGIC Any extraordinary or mystical influence, charm, power, etc:: The magic in a great name; the magic of music; the magic of spring To create, transform, move...

Words Are you paying attention to what words you are saying. Because your words create your actions. If you don’t like your actions you need to shift how you word things. Sometimes we are not aware of what we are saying. To get conscious get a note book and write...

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! Well this evening I will be sharing a thanksgiving dinner with my family. I just finished baking a pumpkin pie and I made cranberry sauce from Scratch. They love roast turkey with gravy, mashed white potatoes with baked sweet potatoes, steamed broccoli and buttered brussels sprouts. I...

Anticipatory of, showing, or expressing anticipation Grief Keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss: sharp sorrow; painful regret Anticipatory Grief Anticipatory Grief Definition refers to a grief reaction that occurs before an impending loss. Typically the impending loss is a death of someone due to an illness, but...

KINDNESS The state or quality of being kind. A kind act; or favor; kind behavior IN this day and age with COVID 19 I believe we need to bring more kindness, empathy, compassion to ourselves and others. We are not gentle and kind to ourselves its going to be challenging...

Freedom The state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint: He won his freedom after a retrial Steps a number of moves or act or proceedings as toward some end or in the general course of some action: stage,measure, or period. The five...

Completion The act of completeing The sate of being completed Conclusion; Fulfillment: in football: a forward pass that has been completed Freedom When we complete something we have an opportunity to move forward or create something new. Declaration To make know or state clearly . When we declare something is...

Conflict To come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: View A particular manner of looking at something The biggest thing that keeps conflict alive is when we have a point of view and we don’t give room for other people’s points of view. If...

Resources A source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon when needed. Today more than ever it is useful to know who, what and where are your resources. so that you can be more effective cost-wise and times wise. I am so grateful that...

Positive Confident in opinion or assertion; fully assured: emphasizing what is laudable, hopeful, or to the goo; constructive: Things Anything that is or may become an object of thought; A fact circumstances,or state of affairs. Here are some positive things I have noticed that has happened since covid19. I invite...

UNSTOPPABLE That cannot be stopped or surpassed, unbeatable BECOMING The act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct or clear: KEYS Something that affords a means of access the key to happiness Key #1 Reality Check. Is the conversation that stops you real? Key #2 Reliability. Is the source...

Develop To bring out the capabilities or possibilities of, to cause to grow to expand, to develop ones muscles to brig into being or activity, generate, evolve Persistence continued existence or occurrence, the persistence of (small pox) the continuance of an effect after its cause is removed Four Steps Have...

Curiosity The desire to learn or know about anything. Inquisitive. Inquisitive Given to research, or asking questions, eager for knowledge Personal Making personal remarks or attacks about someone or yourself. Or to take what some one says to heart and make it mean something about yourself. Have you had someone...

Success Being happy and fulfilled in your life. Being able to produce the results you say you want. Being generous and giving and supportive of others in achieving what they want. Gap A measurement that defines how far you have come and how far you need to go to meet...

FULFILLED , To carry out or bring to realization . life The animate existence or period of animate existence of an individual living Having life being alive Step 1 Believe Step 2 Dream Step 3 Write a list of things you want t do that you have never allowed yourself...

Cost A price paid for an item or our actions frequently the cost of anger can be our aliveness, vitality, peach of mind, our lack of satisfaction and fulfillment , Action Costs for actions when we are angry could included and are not limited to loss of respect, loss of...

Reactive Anger, Frustrated, Defensive, guarded, accusatory, controller,yelling, righteous Responsive Solution orientated, calm, work-ability, curious, empathetic, Decisive Solution if you are Reactive Stop walk away. Say I have to think on this and I’ll get back to you . I have this three day rule. Jesus was buried on Friday and...

Influencing The capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc. of others He used family influence to get the contract. Who do you hang out with or talk with? Are they a pull for your greatness,...