Dinner for Two and a Balanced Life
There are a few phrases that get tossed around, especially in the coaching world, that sound meaningful, that really don’t mean that much. I think one of those phrases is “life balance”. When I first started coaching I thought I would build a whole practice on “life balance”. I look back at that and laugh. Life in balance is a very tall order. Sometimes I think I’ve got a handle on it. Most of the time, though, not so much. My days are usually an insane blend of motherhood and working. I work from home and have a four year old, Kingston. I get about 12 hours a week of childcare back up. However, the rest of the time, I’m clawing to manage the needs of my family and my work. Don’t get me wrong. I wouldn’t have it any other...
I had a feeling – Intuition and Survival
When I was a Junior in high school, a group of my friends was planning to go bowling on a Saturday night. I got permission from my parents to go and loaded into a car. There must have been eight of us packed in there, and I was sitting on my best friends lap as the car drove away. As we were leaving campus, the driver of the car looked in the rear view mirror and said, “Lisa, your mom is following us.” “Drive faster.” I said, defiantly. “No, she’s on foot, and she’s catching up. I better stop.” My mother pulled me out of that car, even after she’d given me permission to go. I was embarrassed and indignant. She looked at me and said, “Lisa, I have a bad feeling.” Ten minutes later the car hit a tree and flipped over. My best...
Law of Attraction La La Land
Every once in while I have an article in me that I don’t write because I know at least ten of my friends or clients will think I’m writing about them. So, I guess I’ll just start this by saying, if the shoe fits, and you like it, certainly feel free to wear it. However, I swear I’m not talking about you, or anyone else in particular. I remember once talking to a coach who told me she could maintain an optimum vibration while her marriage was in the active stages of failing. I will fully admit I laughed, out loud. Not too surprisingly, I haven’t heard from her since. This is not unlike the many well intentioned well trained, law of attraction geniuses who are in a marriage that is abusive on some level or a job that is draining their life blood,...
Your Most Valuable Commodity Isn’t Time or Money, It’s Attention
A couple of years ago I gave up most of my TV viewing. Now I will admit, I am a bit of a political junkie, so I will still occasionally watch the news. But generally speaking the TV in our home is either on PBS kids for the wee one, or it’s off. Let me tell you, I have been very sanctimonious and holier than thou about TV since I mostly gave it up. That said, it’s not uncommon for my family to be sitting around in the evening, David and I both with a laptop in front of us and our four year old on the IPad. When my oldest is home, we will often text message full conversations sitting next to each other on the sofa. I was laying in bed few nights ago with my laptop, fixated on Facebook, when my husband laying next to me used his cellphone to log into...
The Case for Being High Maintenance
I live 27 miles from where Kurt Cobain grew up. For some people grunge fashion is a distant past bad memory. For us in Washington State, flannel is still the uniform and wearing your pajama pants to the grocery store is perfectly acceptable. I kid you not. So, today I had lunch with a male colleague of mine. We were chatting away when she walked in. I swear she looked like she’d stepped off of a 1950’s movie set. Her hair was perfectly coiffed. Her makeup was flawless. Not to mention, she was wearing a dress, gasp, a dress in January, in Washington. I’ll be honest, from the moment she walked in I couldn’t take my eyes off her. As she floated to her table and waited graciously for her dining partner to pull out her chair so she could...
Is 2012 the Year You Will Meet Your Husband?
I just received my fifth email in so many days from a client or potential client saying in some form or fashion that they wanted 2012 to be the year they meet the man they are going to marry. Sweet! That said, each and every one of them had completely stalled out in their dating game. Probably a great reason to reach out to a coach! It always annoys me when one of my single friends talks about my husband like he fell out of the sky or I won some sort of random husband lottery. David didn’t just happen to me. The reason it annoys me is that my close friends know there was a long and winding road to happily-ever-after for me. My friends also know I made a lot of mistakes when I was dating. Some of those mistakes were big ones. Some ...
The Gift of Love and Yoga
This is the last time I will write about my broken leg. I promise. I am happy to report crutches are soon to be a permanent part of my past. Life is slowly getting back to normal. However, it seems to be the “gift that keeps on giving” in many ways in my life. I just keep getting showered with lessons through this experience whether I want them or not. So, here is the final chapter… My husband is the director of a therapy department in a skilled nursing facility. He came home last week thrilled to announce that they got a new piece of equipment called the BioDex. This wonderful machine measures all kinds of things for people who have difficulty standing. Now bare in mind that when he suggested I come in therapy to use this ...
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