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Planning Your Valentines Day if You Are Not Part of a Couple

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The cards and gifts have been in stores since right after Christmas and advertising is hitting the airwaves. The pressure is building for those in relationships to make Valentines Day a meaningful expression of how much you care for your significant other. Some look forward to this as a highlight of the year; others know it’s important for at least one of the couple and go along. But what about the rest of us? The… Continue reading

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Hygge as Self Care in Tough Times

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Whether it is a time of stay-at-home during a pandemic, or just extreme weather conditions, Hygge attitudes and practices can help us get through all of it.  Stress, anxiety, personal or societal tensions and conflicts abound. There are things we can all do to regain and maintain our equilibrium and inner peace.  I invite you to embrace the Hygge principles of self-care like togetherness, relaxation, indulgence, presence, and comfort. Small effort and not much money are… Continue reading

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Hygge – the Art of Coziness in Winter and Beyond

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Baby, it’s COLD outside!  It’s time to hygge! You have probably heard the word “hygge” or seen Pinterest photos related to it. The Cambridge Dictionary defines it as “a Danish word for a quality of coziness (= feeling warm, comfortable, and safe) that comes from doing simple things such as lighting candles, baking, or spending time at home with your family.” The practice originated and thrives in Denmark, and other Scandinavian countries as well. The… Continue reading

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Journaling as a Tool to Create the Life You Want

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You may love your life overall; you may love parts of it, but one or more parts may be frustrating or unfulfilling or disastrous. Regardless of your situation, journaling can be a powerful tool. If you love your life overall, journaling about it will allow you to appreciate it even more and have that record for yourself. As you increase your appreciation and gratitude, it radiates out to others to inspire and uplift them. Your… Continue reading

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Are You Feeling Stuck?

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Are you feeling stuck? Do you have intentions and just can’t seem to do what you know you need to do? I suspect most of us have, if we aren’t right now. Somehow the motivation and focus on those tasks isn’t there. At this time of the year, you may be running into this in relation to your new year’s resolutions or plans. I am facing exactly that. It is easy to get into a… Continue reading

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Mindmapping as a Multi-faceted Tool

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Are you a mindmapper? That is, one who uses the technique of mindmapping to help create and organize ideas and information? I sporadically use this tool, coming back around to it after sliding away for a while. I have used it to take notes at conferences, prepare agendas for meetings and then taking meeting notes right on that mindmap, and create visuals of my business. I recently found an article that explained the technique, demonstrated… Continue reading

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Have You Discovered Timeboxing?

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I have used a variety of time management techniques over the years but somehow had never discovered Timeboxing. The idea behind it – of establishing blocks of time for certain tasks, sections of projects, etc. – certainly isn’t a brand new idea. But I’ve learned that it is ‘a thing’ in a way I had not known. Perhaps you are like me: the likelihood of me trying a new technique or practice is increased if… Continue reading

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The Best Gift?

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During this part of the year, regardless of what holiday(s) you are celebrating, the chances are good that you will be gathering with people in some context. Perhaps it is with family, friends, or even work colleagues in a different context than normal. You may be traveling and meeting people in airplanes, trains or buses and conversations begin. Some of us dread or look forward to the conclusion of such encounters – at least with… Continue reading

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Looking Back and Moving Forward

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As one year ends and another begins, we have an opportunity to pause and decide how we want the next twelve months to be different than the past twelve.  Or perhaps this year has been incredible in every way for you and you want to increase the likelihood that this year will be equally good. We don’t always have to make things different; we want to enjoy what we experienced again. Constantly pushing for better,… Continue reading

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Taking a Much Needed Break

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Most of us have times when we want to take a much needed break –  get away from our routines, our involvements, even some of the people in our lives. Is this true for you? This fall I had the incredible opportunity to do just that for 10 weeks. It was truly a miracle, a synchronistic happening, or whatever term you might use for something that was outside normal expectations. I was a house-sitter for… Continue reading