Happy holiday to all. Whether you are celebrating today or enjoying a day with family and friends, I wish you the very best of of the season. Read more…
Archive of ‘Self & Wellness’ category
Forget Smelling The Roses…Stop and Look At Your Bricks
An architect I interviewed shared with me her appreciation of slowing down and recognizing your progress step by step. In today’s fast- paced world we are all so enamored of overnight success. It’s easy to get frustrated and feel like everyone is passing you by – especially in your 20s. When you stop and check […] Read more…
Disconnect to Reconnect — Taking Technology Vacations
Technology…we love it. We can’t live without it. We forget what it is like to not have it. 20-somethings have never known times unplugged. Oh how much harder it was to figure out where your friends were going out and to actually have to call someone to ask them out. 40-somethings do remember. I’ve […] Read more…
Working Through The Struggle – To Do or Not To Do
Today’s post is another answer to the 20-something who has spent a year working on her business idea, living at home and sacrificing any semblance of a social life. She is struggling to say motivated despite being close to getting her business idea going. This 40-somehting recent entrepreneur gives her more working wisdom. Sometimes […] Read more…
How Confidence Catches Up With You
A great story from a woman who went from a structured upbringing to an unstructured career and along the way found her confidence. ~ It’s a weird transition in your twenties. You enter the workforce. You’re so used to your life being dictated. You’re in school for this long. You’re in college for that long. […] Read more…
Interview with Tara Sophia Mohr: Signs You Are Being Led By Your Inner Voice Critic
1. This is going to be the day when they find that out I don’t know what I’m doing. 2. I’m not ready yet to take on that bigger role. 3. Oh, my God, look at my upper arms. 4. He will never go for me. 5. I will never get that job. Do any […] Read more…
Three Gifts for a 20-Something (92)
Herewith, three “gifts” one 40-something would give a 20-something as their “Forty-Godmother”. What are yours? 1. A strong center of gravity. To be able to separate good comparison (setting goals and aspiring to grow into a continually better self) to bad comparison (focusing on what you don’t have and fixating on the external). […] Read more…
A Single Woman Mantra
A few weeks ago I ran a post answering a 20-something woman who is going through the “year of the wedding”. You know that year when every time you answer your phone or logon to Facebook you hear “guess who’s engaged” or are faced with the awkward photo of “the ring” (see here for how […] Read more…