Fuel Your Inner Drive
Carrie is a Personal Life Coach focusing on "unsticking." Unsticking is a phrase that she likes to use to describe how coaching can assist with momentum and movement in life! We all get stuck from time to time and having a coach to listen and assist us in stretching beyond our stuck has great benefit.
Convenience store = Crack house? As I was buying a candy bar at the “convenience store”/gas station, I was struck by the similarities between a crack house and a convenience store. I was surrounded by all the legal vises. There was tobacco of all sorts, soda, donuts, candy, chips, coffee, energy drinks, etc. etc. Wow [...]
It is the beginning of April and I haven’t finished my taxes. Agh. What excuse should I use? The dog ate my taxes I don’t think the IRS would buy that one. But, I did have a co-worker tell me to file an extension because then I could put it off for even longer. No [...]
Yes this is me! Let me start by saying I am not sport minded or an athlete or a risk taker or even coordinated for that matter! But for the last five years I have been going mountain snowmobiling. It is not trail riding. Mountain snowmobiling is off trail, balancing yourself and using your body [...]
“It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.” ~Oprah Winfrey The tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut again brings to the forefront the tragedies that we are faced with in this world. I would like to tell you two different stories of how this [...]
Journaling can be the most effective tool that we have to listen to ourselves. Believe it or not, we know best about what we need and want from our own life. Too often we use things to distract us (such as I do not have time, I am too tired, I don’t know what to [...]
The biggest obstacle in our path to well-being is ourselves. We more often than not get in our own way of what we really want and then complain about not getting what we want out of life. Bummer? Take a look with me about what obstacles I have put in my path and maybe you [...]
No is definitive. It means “NO!” Right? When our intuition or gut tells us to go for it, or nudges us we need to listen. You are the best person to advise yourself on matters concerning yourself. If the “no” answer that you received doesn’t feel right, maybe it isn’t. Trust yourself. I have learned that not all [...]
Note: This blog originally published in February 2012. How long is your commute? I have at minimum a 45 minute commute in the morning and the same in the evening. That is over 90 minutes in the car, five days a week and over 7 hours a week! When I decided to take on this [...]
Confidence is a belief in oneself and one’s own powers or abilities. In my observations, confidence is something we are born with, it is innate in our being. As I watch my 2 year old, I see that he has confidence in his powers and abilities – he can “do it himself.” He is assured [...]
Fizzle is an interesting word. One definition of fizzle is “to fail or end weakly, especially after a hopeful beginning.” Typically, when we begin a relationship we have a hopeful beginning. Romance is the clearest example of the type of relationship that most of us have had an experience with the “fizzle.” How do we [...]
