It’s not your thoughts that make you suffer. It’s the thoughts you attach to them that make you suffer. Thoughts about thoughts? Previously, my thought about all that thinking was that it was a bunch of nonsensical mental gymnastics for desperate people who wanted to escape reality. Talk about a thought! That was life …
Last fall I joined a friend for a fire walk. For the record, risk avoidance has been my operating system for most of my life. Sure. I love an adventure and by that, I mean a carefully curated adventure. I have learned to shift my relationship with the unknown over the past year, but I …
Goal obstacles Imagine that slowly unfolding desire or that stagnant goal that you focus on 24/7. It feels frustrating, right? After all, you know why it matters. You’ve created the vision board and outlined the plan. You bookend your day visualizing the goal as a reality. And, yet, you still feel scared and frustrated that …
This week I welcome Jessica Dawson to The Trailblazer conversation. Jessica is an accomplished, dynamic entrepreneur, coach, and author who is no stranger to courage. She shares her journey to cultivate a life of impact for herself and her clients in the Chicagoland area. MM: Thank you for joining me to co-author this blog conversation with …
Raise your hand if you are a waiting-for-the-next-shoe-to-drop kind of person. I see you. You want to prepare for the worst so that you are ready to face it. You assume catastrophe and then feel relief when it doesn’t happen. I get you because I am you and so are many of my clients. The …
MM: Thank you for joining me to co-author this blog conversation with and for trailblazers. When I thought about who I wanted to interview for this week’s blog, you were the first person who came to mind because you embody so many qualities of a trailblazer. You go first to pave the way for others. …
Trailblazers are role models, leaders, rule breakers, and humans who experience a full range of emotions. They feel motivated, passionate, and curious. They also feel exhausted, lonely, and afraid. Trailblazers persist through obstacles to make the world a better place for others. It’s one of the traits that draw us to them. After all, who …
Think of a goal that you set for yourself in the past. Was it your goal or did it belong to someone else? Here’s what I mean. The patriarchy is an organizing system that not only structures our society (government, education, religion, family), but it also organizes US. It influences what we think is (im)possible …
Scholars studying Imposter Syndrome in the United States for decades identified that people from marginalized communities experience self-doubt, perfectionism, and feelings of fraudulence when they break through a structural barrier. The feelings that a person does not belong or that they will be outed as an imposter increase when that person identifies with multiple marginalized …
When we learn that we cultivate our best lives from our messy humanity, we give ourselves permission to drop the self-judgment. I’ve been on an intense journey over the last few months that felt like I was shedding a part of my identity that had been with me for decades. At times, the process was …
