I have several ways to communicate my value proposition, depending upon the audience, the setting and how I’m feeling on any given day. Sometimes I just say, pithily: “I’m the woman you call when your progress is stalled.” Other times I say, “I help people discover new possibilities for achieving their desired results, and then [...]

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My Mom told me that dark colas have phosphoric acid in them, and phosphoric acid leeches calcium from your bones.  The older I get, the closer I get to osteoporosis, and so phosphoric acid is probably not something that I want to pour into my system on a daily basis. Unfortunately, I’m not a coffee [...]

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“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.” —Albert Einstein

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You probably have been counseled to “act as if” your dream or goal has already come true in order to improve its chances of becoming reality.  Does this work? Well, we know it worked for my friend Katie, whose story I told in my book.  She won the lottery. She’s a great teacher when it [...]

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When you’re trying to choose a direction in life, a place to pour all of your creative energy, it feels better to have a reason. (Not that one’s required, but we’d like to think we’re basing life direction decisions on something.)  (Yes.  You can actually just flip a coin and choose between two directions based on [...]

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Care of Bethany Gonyea and Healing Springs. The crowd that participated was lovely and warm and so curious about the science of Amping It Up!  There were some very interesting questions offered…one was, “I’m not passionate about anything.  How do I discover my passion?” Stay tuned for the answer!

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At a recent speaking engagement for the Commonwealth Institute in Miami, I was asked, “What do you do if you have too many possibilities available to you?” This question took me a bit by surprise, because mostly I help people who are not seeing the possibilities that exist for them.  They get stuck thinking that [...]

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Michael Merzenich, faculty member and researcher in University of California San Francisco’s department of otolaryngology (head and neck surgery), wrote with a colleague that through attention, “we choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work, we choose who we will be in the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are [...]

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