Entries by Virginia Kravitz

The Presence of Joy

Put Your Soul Into It Earlier this year a new caregiver couple moved into my mother’s group home. Prior to their retiring, the former caregivers tended to my mother for three years with great love and kindness. This changeover could have been a time of apprehension but I was reassured by an interaction that first […]

Purpose is Practical

To the Mountaintop and Back Who am I? Why am I here? Whether it’s for you personally or in an organizational context, identifying your core purpose can have a profound and lasting impact. When I guide someone through the process of discovering his/her purpose, I describe it this way: We’re going to the mountaintop and back.

Letting Go is Moment to Moment

Bungee Bruises The Girls Weekend was my friend Diana’s pick to celebrate her 50th birthday. On the menu: a variety of exercise and outdoor activities, spa treatments, and all-around pampering. One of the activities I signed up for involved swinging from a bungee cord. Billed as a fun event, it was by no means extreme […]

Success and You

Things Change Last month in Your Best Work, I brought up the topic of experiencing success later in life. Some of you wrote to me with examples you’ve observed. While in a hypnotherapy training program this week, my friend Monica met a woman who, like her, is pursuing this accreditation so that she can incorporate it […]

Your Best Work

Overnight Success Two years ago, while scanning the local entertainment scene for something different to do on my husband’s birthday, I found just the kind of event I had in mind at the MIM Music Theater in Phoenix. While unfamiliar with the artist, I was intrigued by the concert description. I liked her attitude. I liked her […]

Staging: It’s Not Just for Your House

Make it Appealing In the last issue entitled: How to Get Yourself Off the Dime, I described a motivational technique that I call: Declare It a Project. I advised against making the project too complicated, big or scary because there’s nothing like overwhelm to quash your motivation. Scoping the project that way will only feed the procrastinator in you […]

How to Get Yourself Off the Dime

Done Talking About It? Talking about a problem or describing a frustration is easy. What’s harder is getting ourselves to do something about it. Often, we just get really good at describing the problem. We convince ourselves that we can’t do anything until we figure it all out… which is pretty tough to do without taking any action. And […]