For as long as I can remember, I asked for things and didn’t get them. Asking was not the key in those situations. Sometimes it was because my parents weren’t budgeting as much as I wanted them to. Sometimes it was because they didn’t understand how important that thing was to me. But it was just the experience over decades of asking for something and not getting it. Asking for something in romantic relationships and […]
Category Archives: Best Practices
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Nov
Nov
You know the amount of information that needs to be shared. And it’s so different from the amount of information that everyone else is sharing. It’s sort of like a different language, and you are so solid there. It is the right thing to say. You’ve shared the right information. We relax into you, into your rhythm, into your knowing. There’s no hiding. There’s nothing closed or shrouded. This isn’t some lack of clarity or […]
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Oct
Oct
When I decided to get pregnant, I had these visions of nursing while on a coaching call. I was super clear that he would be part of my service. Sometimes I remember that. Sometimes I feel sheepish about how much he’s in my calls. It changes. Then yesterday, I got one of these somebody-puts-their-hand-on-your-forehead-and-doses-you-with-the-god-healing: The parenting decisions I’ve made are so primal I don’t even think about them. I’m still breastfeeding – that’s a parenting […]
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Sep
Sep
From a human design perspective, I am not mechanically built to talk to strangers. So it’s not surprising that for me, cold calls have mostly meant unexpected sales calls to people I know, whether a little or a lot. In the first months of my business, I made many of these kinds of calls: I dialed all the numbers on my phone and told the people that answered what I was up to, asked them […]
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Aug
Aug
When I started transforming my tolerations, I was focused entirely on results. Big stuff like how much money I was making, the scale of my business, the way I felt about myself, the level of satisfaction I felt in my relationships. I used my tolerations to create a task list for myself, and transforming the things on that list was how I measured my progress. Over time, as I’ve transformed a lot of those big […]