Common wisdom is often times not common practice.
The information I share in this blog is for you to experiment with and see if it makes your life better.
Give my suggestions a try! Come on, what have you got to lose?
Want A Good Habit? Get A Trigger
There she was in a pickle of a position trying to figure out how she did it to herself -- again. I mean, she did everything right, right? She made her plan, put it on her calendar, and even set an alarm to get it done -- so when the alarm rang,...
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If You Do This, The Glass Can Always Be Full
We were driving back from lunch and my husband was asking me about scheduling. It sounded a lot like he was asking me for some great hack, because he noticed how much I was able to get done in a day. I told him that when you consistently do what you love, you have a...
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Do You Want To Be The Smartest Person in The Room? Then Do This
There's this scene from the movie "Now You See Me," in which one of the characters, J. Daniel Atlas, (on the left) thinks he is the smartest person in the room and has outwitted the bumbling FBI agent, Dylan Rhodes (on the right). He gloats, "First rule of magic:...
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Do This and You Can Find The Right Balance That Works
Today's story is about Vicky and Serena. It's a simple story, but one to make you think. Vicky loved to play pranks on everyone. She couldn't wait to get out of bed and see who she could play a prank on next. One day, her mom could step out of bed and into a pan of...
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HOW TO BEAT THE DMV OR WIN AT ANY GAME
When you're a life coach, it seems like every experience can turn into a teaching moment. Lately, it seems that each day, I learn something new to apply and this story is no different and happens to be totally true! The moments I like best are the ones where I can...
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FAITH OR FEAR? IT WAS IN HER HANDS
**Hello Everyone! I thought I would try something different for the next few weeks. I'm going to write a short story and then go over some take aways from the story to help you and myself apply these lessons that make our lives better. I believe that if we change our...
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Do This To Save Time and Gain Peace of Mind
It's been a month since my last post and a lot has happened since then. We sold our house, as some of you know, and not surprisingly, the move was a lot more challenging than I had previously thought. We are finally settled in the S.F. Bay Area and I wanted to share ...
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What Happens When You Make The Time To Listen?
13 hours and 37 minutes. Those numbers made sense and my guess is that the real reason we are headed to Amarillo, Texas is to meet some more amazing people. Everywhere we've been has been like that: kind-hearted, generous people making a difference in people's lives...
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3 Steps That Changed It All For Me
Counting down 5, 4, 3, no, it's not Mel Robbins' 5 Second rule, nor a countdown for a rocket launch. For the past 24 years I have lived in St. Augustine, Florida. I've seen my share of triumphs and heart break, of having beautiful experiences and asking myself...
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Self Control and How To Get It Back
It has been a whirlwind these past couple of weeks. Between heading back home from California to selling our home with a close date that is less than three weeks away, I kind of feel like there is not enough time to do it all. It's sort of like preparing for a...
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Do This and Watch Your Relationships Get Better
"What the heck are you talking about?" I started laughing, again, and I looked at him with a twinkle in my eye. One of my favorite, favorite things to do is to connnect with someone's excitement, and here was one of my besties coming out of his chair, barely able to...
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Why I Believe In You
It never ceases to surprise me that you don't know what you don't know until you learn you didn't know what you didn't know. I hope all that word play wasn't lost on you. Keeping an open mind -- a beginner's mind -- is essential to rapid learning and to rapid growth,...
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Use These Steps To Take An Idea and Make It REAL
Each morning, I would get up at 5am and write the pages of a workbook that I knew would help people live better lives - lives filled with more light and love. After many mornings had passed, I finally hit the submit button to have my workbook up on my website for...
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Do This and Get Them To Cooperate
Is that a Carly Simon song? No, I didn't think so. But it is interesting what you find on the internet when you can't sleep. There's this FBI agent, LaRae Quy -- who is also a coach and is so cool - and she shared her tips for getting people to cooperate. You can read...
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Light Bringers Bring It
What makes you not quit when you're tired? What causes you to keep going despite the nay-sayers, the ridiculers, and when every fiber of your being says, "It's enough?!" That is the question, isn't it? If you look at every success formula out there, you will...
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Blessings in Disguise
There I was at the top of an aerobatic manuever enjoying the sights, the silence and the symmetry of being at one with the aircraft. It had been awhile. Six weeks earlier, I had given birth to my daughter. Since then, every waking moment had been filled with feedings,...
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On Being Seen…
Friggin Fear! I was scared again! How many times do I have to do a Facebook Live before I don't feel fear? You'd think I would be over it by now. Some weeks, I just know what I need to say and how to say it. Then, at other times, I force myself to do it. Do you know...
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Irma, Irma on My Mind…
For the last week or so, Irma has been on my mind. Like that Ray Charles song, Georgia, Irma has been not only on my mind, but on everyone's mind. I can hear Ray singin it true in the back of my mind as we have been treated to all day, every day about Irma: Where it...
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Am I A Yet, Yet? Revisited
[Author's note: I wrote this post about two years ago. It is a playful look at a very important issue for us and for our children] Hmmm.... I have spent the better part of two days trying to upload a picture and write this post. How appropriate it is that I am writing...
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What the #?! is An Appreciation Feast and Why It Matters
******Happy Thanksgiving 2017!This post first appeared on August 31, 2017 and I felt it was a good day to share it again. When you tell the people you are with what you admire, appreciate and love about them, they get to see themselves from a very different...
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The Surprising Power of Morning Rituals
Behind the greatness of men and women throughout history, is this secret: The Daily Ritual. Not only did Beethoven meticulously count out 60 coffee beans for his morning brew. Mason Currey in his book, Daily Rituals, quoted this unusual daily ritual that helped...
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Obstacle Planning 101
There I was sitting at the edge of the runway, watching my student pilot make her first attempt at a solo landing. It took a lot of mindset and skill set training to get her to that day, and I was a little nervous watching her come in on final approach for the first...
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You Gotta Give It – Part Deux
I got an email this week that invited me to try some new software to take my blog posts and create short videos of the content. I was pretty excited by the results and wanted to share with you one of my recent posts in a video format. So cool. Check it out and see...
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You Don’t Need a ‘How to…’
In the Age of Now,”how” has never been so easily available. In my latest blog post, I write about the ultimate resource and how to use it
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You Gotta Give It
Sex and chocolate. Yum. Did I get your attention? A study conducted by William Harbaugh and his colleagues at the University of Oregon found that when we give, the pleasure centers of our brain - the area that sends lovely warm and fuzzy feelings through our body -...
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Hi I'm Coach Christine, High Performance Coach, Lifelong Adventurer, Tae Kwon Do Instructor & Writer 🙂 
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