One of the questions I receive regularly is “How do I get what I want in life?” I respond with several questions, a suggestion to do a very important activity, and some tips, all of which are outlined below. The biggest question — the million-dollar question — is “What do you want?” The answers are usually quite vague,… Continue reading How to Achieve What You Want in Life
Category: Personal Reinvention
As the world continues to transform at breakneck speed, you, too, need to reinvent. Personal reinvention helps you to prepare for the future.
Goal Setting
You want to reinvent your life — either your personal life, your professional life, or both. To get there, you need a plan and to keep yourself on track and accountable, you need effective goal setting. A goal without a plan is simply a dream — a dream that may or may not come to fruition. … Continue reading Goal Setting
How To Powerfully Achieve Your Goals
How Do I Get From Where I Am Today (HERE) to Where I Want to Go (THERE)? You are here… it’s exactly where you are meant to be right now. Sure, sometimes “HERE” sucks but it is what it is and as long as you are committed getting over “THERE” that’s what matters.What steps do you… Continue reading How To Powerfully Achieve Your Goals
What Are Your Values?
What Are My Values?This question sometimes causes people unnecessary stress because they aren’t sure how to answer it. However, there are some easy ways to figure out what you value and what your core values (these are values that will likely never change — or change only slightly — because they are so important to… Continue reading What Are Your Values?
What Do I Want? 10 Powerful Questions to Ask Yourself as You Prepare to Live Your Best Life
Have you ever asked yourself “What do I want?” And then you realize there was no answer. Or maybe you’ve asked yourself “What am I supposed to want?” And you get stuck because you don’t know where to start. The pandemic has caused many people to question the lives they are living, the work they are… Continue reading What Do I Want? 10 Powerful Questions to Ask Yourself as You Prepare to Live Your Best Life
Living Your Dreams
Well, we’ve done it — we’ve sold our rental property and our house. For the first time since 1992, I haven’t owned any real estate (and at one point we had 3 homes). We decided to go all-in with our location independent lifestyle. As I type this, I’m sitting on the patio of a condo… Continue reading Living Your Dreams
If Time and Money Were No Consideration
A friend posted a question on Facebook “If money or time were no consideration I would…” I didn’t have to think about it at all because I learned long ago that time and money are two of the most common excuses for not doing or committing to something. “I don’t have the money” is the most common… Continue reading If Time and Money Were No Consideration
Career Reinvention
Is a Career Reinvention in Your Future? As a consultant who helps businesses become more profitable by leveraging the relationships they have with their employees — and as a previously miserable employee — I know how challenging it is to have employees in the wrong role, at the wrong company and managed by the wrong… Continue reading Career Reinvention
The Quadruplets of Discontent – Mind-game Specialists
The Quadruplets of Discontent are 4 little “darlings” which will mess with your reinvention so it’s important that you are aware of them. I’ve had intimate conversations with each of them, which is why the cartoons are meant to resemble me (albeit with less wrinkles and a fitter body!) Sometimes we’re best friends, which seems… Continue reading The Quadruplets of Discontent – Mind-game Specialists
1% of Wanna-Be Authors Ever Write and Publish Their Book
When I wrote my Guerrilla Tourism Marketing book and published it on 12-12-12 it was an amazing day for me!!! I had no idea that >80% of Americans would love to write a book and yet only 1% ever do. (Many thanks to Michelle Holmes for sharing that with me.) Even though I’m both Canadian… Continue reading 1% of Wanna-Be Authors Ever Write and Publish Their Book