Entries by Virginia Kravitz

There’s Always Time to Refresh

Summer Greetings Hello! The last time I wrote to you it was spring and here we are rounding the corner of summer. So far I’ve spent the summer coaching several leaders from three different organizations and I had a great two weeks visiting family in Boston, Connecticut, and New York.

It’s in the Yes

Where is the Motivation? In the last issue entitled Design Your Time, the Call to Action was to take a fresh look at your daily and weekly routines to make sure your long-term goal is showing up on your schedule. Now let’s address the issue of motivation — getting yourself to show up to that newly allocated time slot.

Design Your Time

Determined to Reach Her Goal Sandra is a 23-year-old woman who lives in El Salvador. By working as a waitress and through a scholarship she has received from a non-profit organization called Unbound, it has become possible for Sandra to attend college and pursue a degree in literature.(1)

The Magic Sweatshirt

Can’t Help but Smile In July of this year my husband, Jess, and I took a road trip to California. We drove from Scottsdale to Los Angeles, made several stops up the Pacific Coast Highway, and got as far north as Monterey. One Sunday we stopped in Carmel for breakfast before making that winding drive along […]

Get Ready for Something Good (Part 1 of 2)

Today’s article had been sitting in draft form, for a few months. When I completed the final version, it was the week of the Las Vegas shooting. In light of that tragedy as well as the recent string of hurricanes and fires, I hesitated before broadcasting the subject line: “Get Ready for Something Good.” However, […]

Keep It Current

Mid-Year Retreat Last month I attended an event at Mercy by the Sea in Madison, CT with fourteen other master trainers of OASIS in the Overwhelm. A full day of discussing how brain science validates the beneficial effects of even short periods of downtime was an invitation to create this space for me. I did this in the […]