Understanding Procrastination Today’s article offers a simple remedy for procrastination. First, though, it’s helpful to understand what’s behind procrastination. Master Coach Talane Miedaner contends that you can “procrastinate with purpose” if you let it show you the way forward. Here are six reasons you might be procrastinating, as identified by Talane (and paraphrased by me) […]
An Elusive Impossibility? Most people say they’d like to live a balanced life, yet the idea becomes misconstrued when balance appears as an elusive, utopian state to be realized. Toward the end of the movie Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (played by Julia Roberts) becomes distressed when she fears that falling in love again will unravel […]
Even When You’re 95 Last Monday I placed a birthday call to my Aunt Louise who turned 95. We reminisced about a variety of things including the first time her husband asked her out on a date and the full wardrobe of handmade clothes she made for my Barbie dolls when I was a child […]
We Interrupt This Program It was late afternoon and Norah, a client and Human Resources Manager, stated that she only had about ten minutes to talk, as an urgent issue needed to be addressed before leaving the office. Rather than rescheduling, Norah had gone ahead with our call, so I was confident that something important […]
Need a Permission Slip? Remember raising your hand in class and asking to go to the “lavatory”? (There’s a word you don’t hear much anymore.) Perhaps now you are the one signing permission slips for class trips and missed days at school, yet throughout life and even as adults, the need for permission remains, sometimes under […]
Most of you are accustomed to my river metaphor description of what I call “living in the current”. Here’s a quick refresher, just in case. Living in the current means boldly moving in the direction you want to go with the willingness to adjust course when needed and the faith that you will be supported. It is […]
Put Some Zip Into Your Gifts You’re getting a new car! You’re getting a new car! And you’re getting a new car! While most of us aren’t in the position to give as lavishly as Oprah, fortunately for us, the spirit of giving isn’t limited to our bank accounts. There are numerous opportunities to give from the heart every day. […]
This Week’s Profile As I’ve shared with you recently, new things are in the works at In the Current®, including a brand new website which will launch in the near future. This week, I thought I’d give you a sneak peek at one of the profiles that will be highlighted on the new site. I […]
If You Knew Then… Yesterday a friend told me about an event she attended where Michael J. Fox was a keynote speaker. He shared a story about how when he was in high school his “nanna” told him he’d be successful in the field of acting. Michael’s nanna was known to be right about such predictions so […]
More Than A Tag Line Moving through life with greater joy and abandon. That’s the tag line for In the Current®. Over the past few years, I’ve been raising my awareness about what the “abandon” piece of that tag line means and how I want to live that more fully. A few weeks ago, after a […]