"Write down all the dreams you have for this year, the things you have thought of a million times and never taken a step of action towards." My small staff looks gobsmacked. We are at a quarterly team retreat and I am leading them through a new exercise I developed called "Dreaming and Scheming" where I ask them to write down a list of their heart's desires and then plot professional and personal next steps. When I lead this exercise in corporate settings, I find that for many, the vulnerability of mapping all goals, long-avoided tasks, secret dreams and hopes for the future can at first feel intimidating and uncomfortable. However, when we push past the initial resistance, teams and individ
When I start working with clients, there are often a few goals that I see come up again and again. Having a healthy financial situation - like having a healthy body, living environment, or self-image - is part of a solid foundation to access deeper levels of courageous growth and spark the change you want to see in your life. We all absorbed early messaging about money: What it means, how we can get it, what we can and cannot do with it. These messages and the subsequent choices we make about money, inform our current financial picture and our relationship to money today. Until you have taken dominion over the 'out of control' areas in your life - be it debt or unhealthy spending habits or a
