Have you been dutifully figuring out how you can change yourself to be more happy, comfortable, or successful in your current situation?

Maybe you've been:

Working on your mindset. Sharpening your skills. Changing your perspective. Adding more joy & play. Increasing your presence. Delegating. Taking a day off. Adding more self-care.

In other words...you've been doing anything in your power to feel better.

When I first heard this story, I felt a surge of alertness, interest.

I needed to be reminded that - already within me - is the capacity to meet the world with kind curiosity.

Our brains do have a strong tendency to find fault & problems - it's true.

But we also have the wiring to bring a gentle and appreciative attention to life.

When you think about stress - do you have a generally negative or positive reaction?

Many of us have the general attitude: stress = bad.

Headlines (mine included!) about burnout, overwhelm, etc... tend to emphasize the troublesome sides of stress.

Would you be willing to loosen the grip of your inner critic to make room for more creativity, aliveness and flow?

I'm living a lifelong love affair with freedom. In practice, freedom isn't really declared. Freedom is something we must commit and recommit to - again and again.

I thought I'd let you in on what I do after I select a goal...because it comes in very handy - almost magic. 💫

For a year and a half I have been using a tool called the Weekly Reset. It's a 20 minute routine I do on Sundays to reflect, plan, and recommit to my deepest goals.

Most of us live in a zone of competence or excellence – doing things we are average or above average at and someone else needs or wants (or will pay us) to do.

What if you lived in your zone of genius instead?

How do you set goals?

And what magical tricks do you have for achieving them?

I’m fascinated by the way complex problems are sometimes solved easily – like when something just clicks into place and the path forward is obvious.

How do we make ourselves more prone to these moments of clarity?

One of the reasons change is so hard is that we become disoriented.

Changes big and small strand us in the wilderness without a trail or a map.

What if we each had an ideal pace for our lives?

A tempo or a beat that reflected the best possible speed for our life to unfold at any moment.

Would your essence pace be faster or slower than the way your life typically unfolds now?