9 Traps to Avoid with Setting Goals change hope legacy & life coaching life transitions productivity vision Aug 06, 2025

It's great to set goals during the second half of each year for the upcoming year, but goal setting can be done anytime. The best time to start is NOW!

To reach your goals, it's important to know why many people miss the mark. Here are 9 common traps that snag people and make goals fall flat. Avoid...

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How to Make Good Decisions balance depression productivity self care stress management vision Jul 29, 2025

Decision making can be one of the biggest challenges in life. Getting stuck in indecision leads to lost opportunities, leadership failure, damaged relationships, and tremendous anxiety.

Few things bring as much relief as getting decisions made. With practice, you can improve your ability to make qu...

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3 Motivation Hacks Every Great Leader Swears By change hope intimacy teamwork & career vision Jun 30, 2025

Some leaders believe increasing pay increases employee motivation. While money is a factor, long-term team motivation comes from much more than pay.

For over 25 years, we've helped thousands of families and hundreds of companies improve their work culture. The healthiest companies and families shar...

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3 Poems That Light a Fire and Clear the Fog anxiety blog change emotional health stress management vision Apr 08, 2025

I love great poetry. It has a way of bringing clarity and revealing the next steps I need to take. Like many people, I often place myself in the poem--as if I'm a character in the story--and reflect on how its message aligns with where I'm headed.

The most powerful poems do more than stir emotion--...

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18 Ways to Build Self-Confidence anxiety emotional health fear self care vision Feb 18, 2025

As your self-confidence improves, other parts of your life improve as well. Often relationships strengthen, you see opportunities you missed before, and your focus & creativity improve. You CAN improve your self-confidence by taking action.

While you might believe that self-confidence is something ...

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Clarifying a Vision for Your Future hope legacy & life coaching life transitions stress management vision Nov 19, 2024

A vision is a mental picture of how good your life can be in the future. It focuses on potential, opportunity, and possibility. One essential to clarifying a vision is that you make if big and idealistic. A healthy and inspiring vision is always idealistic.

People are 100 times more motivated movin...

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How to Like Yourself (Building Confidence) change emotional health hope life transitions stress management vision Oct 15, 2024

Healthy people are drawn to those who like themselves. Being around people who have confidence in their worth and abilities will build your own self-esteem.

Many believe their value comes from their performance in different areas of life (career, health, finances, marriage, etc.). When they do well...

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Why I Started Decide Your Legacy change legacy & life coaching life transitions vision Apr 30, 2024

Decide Your Legacy was created to help people find transformational clarity and face their biggest fears so they can LIVE & LEAVE their desired legacy. At times, due to my own insecurities, I've played it safe and steered away from the purpose, yet I always end up back at where I started.

Decide Yo...

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How To Be a Better Friend to Yourself emotional health life transitions self care stress management vision May 17, 2023

I can be insane at times. My view of the world and my life can be extremely negative. My perspective is consumed by what can go wrong, the opportunities lost, the mistakes I've made, and how everything can, and in my mind will, fall apart. This is insanity because my thinking is just not accurate. M...

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How to Find Clarity in Life balance change hope legacy & life coaching life transitions vision Aug 15, 2022

My purpose in life is helping others find transformation clarity that propels them to face their biggest fears to LIVE & leave the legacy they desire. Read more to learn how my team fulfills this purpose.

I had a big problem in 7th grade. I was being bullied. Hair spray was sprayed in my face, I wa...

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A Secret to Creating a Healthy & Thriving Marriage balance fun intimacy relationships vision Jul 16, 2020

Have you ever wondered what makes a marriage thrive? Have you ever wanted to know how to take your marriage from "good" to "great"? The happiest married couples do some things differently.

According to marriage expert Dr. John Gottman, part of the answer is found in 5 hours each week. Through extens...

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How to Make Good Decisions (Part 2) balance change depression productivity self care stress management vision worry Feb 22, 2020

You will make some bad decisions in life and that's OK. You'll trust untrustworthy people. You'll take the wrong job. An investment of time and money will go south.

Will you follow up bad choices by learning and taking a better path?

In How to Make the Good Decisions (Part 1) I gave you 7 tools th...

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