Lately I’ve been reading over some previous blog entries and through my journal. I’ve had wonderful awareness over the past several months. Some of my entries, however, seem like they were written by another person. It’s like I experience a part of myself and allow it to fly away from my consciousness.
There can be a [...]

I’ve just ended a call with a Master of Coaching, Steve Mitten. Along with at least 20 members of the NW Coach Association, I coordinated this call that brought one of the leaders of the coaching industry directly to our organization. I was nervous, anxious, worried, and fearful that it wouldn’t go well. Maybe someone [...]

Quiz: You can create the energy needed to accomplish a task. True or False.
If you answered true, I love you, you optimist. And what you experience may appear to be a creation of energy. What you see, feel, and sense is actually a transformation of energy. The law of conservation of energy actually states that energy [...]

I’m on my last day of a 12 day vacation. I’m in a motel in Medford, Oregon - a place that has held many fears for me. A past of college, dating, partying, and making stupid college mistakes. Now it’s time to make up.
I used to swim competitively for about three years. I don’t think [...]

Tonight I really stepped out of my comfort zone and met with a bunch of people I don’t know. I practiced something new because in order to move forward, I had to choose to take a step forward. No more waiting, processing, thinking, feeling, weighing, guessing, second guessing, listening, soul searching, investigating, considering, contemplating, meditating, [...]

Picture it. Portland, Oregon. February 2, 2008. It’s cold and snowing. Why, oh why, am I putting on tennis shoes and heading out the door? I’m starting Foot Traffic’s University, a training program for running or walking a half marathon. And I am willing.
Exactly 33 days ago, at the beginning of the year, I ran [...]

Recently I asked a trusted advisor for the truth about me. Really give me the low down. Bring it -Â I can stomach it. And the big thing is, I want to know all about myself.
What I got was one simple word that crumbled my psyche. I won’t tell you what the word is, because [...]

Good Morning and Happy New Year!
I decided 100 days ago that I would open up the new year running (!) the First Run, an annual 5K race that begins at the first moment of each new year in Portland.
I just checked online and I saw my ranking in the finish line - 797 out of [...]

According to Wikipedia, fear of public speaking affects 75% of the population. Getting up in front of a group of people can bring up multiple fears of rejection, being seen as stupid, insigificance, etc.
Yesterday I spoke on a few Fearless Living principles at the Northwest Coach Association monthly meeting. Somehow I got up in front [...]

IÂ am a lifelong volunteer. From the first time I wanted so badly to get out of my fourth grade class, I volunteered to help train 1st graders to learn how to write computer programs in the elementary school library. I loved computers, and I loved the library - this was a natural fit for [...]