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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Stress can sometimes seem to come out of nowhere.
Work is flowing wonderfully, you are accomplishing your creative goals, you are finding time for family and keeping your apartment clean - nothing could be sweeter. Then, you receive a fateful phone call that turns everything on its head in mere moments - you lose your highest paying client, a close family member falls extremely ill, your landlord wants to sell your apartment by the end of the month - and suddenly you are plunged into a period marked by worry, fear and a whole lot of stress.
Even if you are the most calm and balanced woman, you can pretty much count on the fact that stress WILL happen in your life. However, ...keep reading
Tags: difficult times, heart-centered, honoring your body, how to stay calm during stress, self-therapy, stress, Stress management
Posted in Empowerment, Personal Development, Stress management | 1 Comment »
Monday, July 19th, 2010
How we spend our time is essentially how we spend our lives. It’s a very big deal.
For those of us that have busy lives, time is incredibly precious. Sometimes time can feel like the biggest thing you are fighting against. It’s that feeling of rushing to get things done, or confusion and inactivity from having too many things to do and not enough time to do them, or feeling dissatisfied because your life isn’t in alignment with your heart.
Know what I mean?
One of the most common mistakes that I see people make when trying to create balance, time, and energy in their life stems from not being clear on their priorities.
Each and every day, we are presented with endless possibilities of things to do, see, and hear. Often, we aren’t clear on what is more important to do and what is less important to do - both in terms of our Overarching Priorities and Day-to-Day Priorities. This lack of clarity leads to ...keep reading
Tags: better decisions, business, efficiency, lack clarity, priorities, Success, time management
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Monday, July 5th, 2010
Let’s say Geena is your friend of many years. She is a smart, creative, go-getter and beautiful to top it off - a source of admiration for many. Yet still, she confides in you, whenever she lands a major success like getting published in a popular publication or being accepted into a competitive position, she has this creeping sense of being a fraud, as if she does not deserve it, brushing it all off with “oh, it’s really nothing.”
You can hardly believe it when she expresses feelings of insecurity to you despite her many positive qualities. When it comes to her own personal life goals and dreams, you are surprised that she expresses a deep lack of confidence in pursuing them.
Do you know anyone like this?
Even though Geena may seem like an extreme example, the truth is ...keep reading
Tags: better decisions, confidence, Empowerment, pursuing your dreams, self assessment
Posted in Empowerment, Goals, Personal Development, Success | 2 Comments »
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
“When people don’t get what they want from life, usually it’s because they don’t know what they want.” - Keith Ellis
Do you know what you want out of life?
Do you really know what you want out of life?
I’m not talking about a having the perfect figure, designer handbags, or the title of CEO. Of course, all of these things can be really great. However, I’ve known many women who have the perfect homes, luxurious cars, and thriving businesses, or other women who have great bodies, wonderful children, and all of the recognition for their work in the world, and yet - these women are unhappy. They still wake up day in and day out and have a sense that something is missing, that their lives are incomplete, that they aren’t fully living as they want to.
Why do they feel so empty, as if they haven’t quite stepped into their path in life? Why do they feel their lives and the big projects they are working on lack meaning, focus, and inspiration? It’s because they aren’t clear on what they really want. It’s because they don’t have a soul-centered vision for themselves or their projects.
So, when I ask you what you want out of life, what I am really asking is: ...keep reading
Tags: better decisions, career, empower, heart-centered, joanna lindenbaum, meaningful life, soul-centered, soulful coaching, vision
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Each December, many of us begin making our New Year’s resolutions – lists of juicy and not-so-juicy goals we’d like to achieve over the year. We promise ourselves things like “lose 10 pounds,” “create a loving relationship,” “take a trip to Costa Rica,” or “eat less sweets.” Often we accomplish these resolutions, yet many times they remain nice thoughts that were quickly forgotten by the end of the first week of the year.
Does this sound familiar?
How many New Year’s resolutions have you made and broken - or worse yet - made and forgotten?
For the last few years I’ve found a fun, intuitive way to help create meaningful resolutions and stick to them. I do this by first creating a personal theme for my year and then by allowing resolutions to naturally flow from that theme or way of living and experiencing the world. This article focuses on creating your personal theme for the new year.
By creating a theme for the year, you will be able to feel more fulfilled and stay aligned with your deepest desires. Once you uncover your theme, ...keep reading
Tags: abundance, create your personal theme, creating a personal theme, creating meaningful resolutions, desires, heart-centered, new years resolutions, personal theme, soulful coaching, yearly goals, yearly theme
Posted in Goals, Personal Development, Productivity, Success | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
In my coaching practice, I hear it time and time again:
“Ugh, it’s wintertime. It’s cold and dark…and I feel stuck!”
Entering into the winter season can bring up a lot of fear, anxiety, and struggle for you if you “fight” against it. Most of us are naturally drawn to the energy and feel of spring or summer - these are times when the weather is nice, there is plenty of light out, people are feeling sociable and energetic, and they’re very excited about the renewal and growth happening in the natural world (and then mirrored in their own lives).
Winter, on the other hand, can be seen as a really tough time of year when projects are suspended, enthusiasm is low, and things move very slowly. However, if you can honor that winter is supposed to have a different energy, feel and look from the spring, summer or even autumn, then the dark season can become a beautiful time of rest, renewal and creativity.
The trick is to be able to understand and honor that the wintertime, and the lessons and experiences it brings, are just as important as the summertime lessons and experiences.
Here are a few ways to make your winter experience work for you: ...keep reading
Tags: anxiety, barebones, be bold, fear, great creativity, honor winter, honoring your body, inner experience, joanna lindenbaum, mother nature, observe nature, pump higher energy, sometimes less is more, soulful coaching, winter experience work
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
It’s that time of the year again - holiday season! Next week, many of us will begin a dizzying six weeks of traveling, eating, partying, spending, and being with family. It can be a lot to handle, even for the most balanced and prepared individuals.
Often, by the time the New Year emerges, you can feel drained, exhausted, bloated, and ready to hide out from your friends and family for a while. That’s not the best way to start the new year!
I want to make sure this doesn’t happen to you this holiday season, and you start 2010 with clarity, vitality, and balance. Here are my top seven tips for thriving and enjoying yourself between now and the end of the year (and beyond!): ...keep reading
Tags: anxiety, balance, energy, family, holiday dinner, holiday season, holiday travel, holiday wellness guide, joanna lindenbaum, soulful coaching, time
Posted in Intuition, Personal Development, Productivity | 1 Comment »
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
I have been talking a lot lately with women who are telling me that they are working hard, quite often achieving their goals, and yet still not feeling successful, accomplished, or good about what they are doing. A typical story goes like this:
You decide that you want to accomplish a big project, for example, writing your book. You work on it for six months. You create your action plan, you meet all of your mini-goals or milestones, and you finally finish your book. You have a completed manuscript! And yet, you don’t feel all that accomplished for putting the final edits on it. Instead, you start brainstorming how you are going to get your book published. So, you work hard to find an agent, and then to get your manuscript published…and all that happens! And yet, you still don’t feel satisfied. You still feel like you’ve got more to do, and you start thinking about working on your next book.
Know what I’m talking about?
It’s as if no matter what you do, no matter how small or how big, no matter what you complete, you are constantly thinking and maybe even stressing over the next big accomplishment, the next milestone. You find it hard to simply take pleasure in your process and in your achievement. You feel hungry for the next success all the time.
When enough never feels like “enough” ...keep reading
Tags: drive vs. passion, energize your life, fear, joanna lindenbaum, motivation, soulful coaching, understand drive, understand passion
Posted in Personal Development, Productivity, Success | 2 Comments »
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
In our Modern World, life can get really busy and really fast. We spend a lot of time and energy running around, and also place a lot of importance on our left brains - our rational minds.
Despite all this, somewhere, deep in our souls, we know the importance of slowing down and connecting to our inner wisdom, connecting to our right brains - that place of deep intuition and creativity that holds so many answers and so much richness for us.
Here is a list of my absolute favorite top 5 ways to really settle in and listen to the treasury of wisdom that your heart and soul has for you. None of them need to take up a lot of time or effort! Connecting to your inner wisdom can be easy and flowing.
1) Journaling: To cut through the mind’s chitter chatter and get straight to your inner wisdom, journaling works best if you write fast, without stopping, without worrying about grammar or language, or even full sentences. The name of the game is here is to write quickly without judgement or even thought, and see what comes up for you. It helps to start with a provocative phrase like: “I am a woman who…..” or “I am here….” ...keep reading
Tags: connect, dancing, joanna lindenbaum, journaling, wisdom
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Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Autumn is the perfect time to clean out and let go of what no longer serves you in your life.
Look around and notice that the days are getting shorter and the leaves are falling from the trees. Soon, there will be less bounty and abundance being offered from the flowers and plants. Nature is letting go of excess and stripping down to the essentials - to what is really necessary to get through the long, dark winter. These cues from nature are beautiful invitations to help you in identifying, releasing, and letting go of the excess, of the things that are perhaps weighing you down in your life.
It’s important to “clean house” on an inner level every now and again, and take stock of what you’re holding onto.
So often, you hold on to old fears, resentments, habits, patterns, limiting beliefs and ways of being because they FEEL comfortable since you’ve been clenching on to them for so long. However, when you take a closer look, you can begin to see that these things no longer serve you, and in fact are standing in your way of moving forward.
The tree metaphor applies here: imagine what might happen if trees never shed their leafs? Yes, they might not ever look bare, and there is comfort in always looking full and abundant. However, if the trees never shed their leafs, they would never have space or opportunity to grow new leafs - new ideas, new projects, new beliefs, new opportunities. See where I’m going with this?
I’ve created for a you a simple and special Autumn ritual to be able to identify and let go of the things in your life that are ready to be released: ...keep reading
Tags: autumn, blocks, clean house, soulful coach
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