the power of the word

the power of the word

Life has a funny way of bringing us to where we need to be, sometimes, indeed most of the time, without our even being aware that it is happening. When I trained as a coach, we were given an extraordinary quote by a man whom I had not previously heard of. The words,...
are we there yet….?

are we there yet….?

I am terribly impatient! The closer things get the more I want to rush them along.  I just get so excited!  When I was a child my parents learned very quickly not to tell me in advance of anything special that was coming up, because I would wind myself up like a...
who are you, “above all”?

who are you, “above all”?

He saw that Fatima’s eyes were filled with tears. “You’re crying?”  “I’m a woman of the desert”, she said averting her face.  “But above all, I’m a woman.”  ~ from The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho None of us is only one thing at a time, yet we strive to define ourselves...