It’s not often a blog posting is 18 months in the making, but the time has finally come to tell a story I alluded to in an August 2016 posting. In that post I shared my husband and I had “been undergoing extensive unanticipated renovations at the new house” and I noted that would be “another story for another day.” When I wrote those words I’d been treading water for a couple of months, having recently surfaced … Read More
My husband and I aren’t big on exchanging gifts of tangible things, so Mother’s Day at our house has historically been about gifting time and attention. It’s a day where we typically do what I feel like doing. As such, I probably could have lounged in bed this morning reading, while my dear husband cleaned up and braced himself for a trip to the nursery to go flower shopping, which is something that he doesn’t enjoy, but … Read More
This isn’t a long post, because I know you’re getting ready to celebrate Thanksgiving and I don’t want to “gobble” up your time. (Sorry, that was horrible, but I couldn’t resist.) Thanksgiving as we all know is the day on which we express thanks or gratitude. Today I’d like to convince you to consider practicing gratitude more regularly. A little over three years ago I began expressing thanks more regularly, daily in fact, in the form of a … Read More
Yesterday was another snow day here along the North Coast. I say “another” because we’ve had so many in the past two months, I’ve lost count. I love snow, I really do, but when we’ve had as much snow & cold as we have this year, even I find myself saying, “Enough Already!” As frustrated as I get with snow though, I am grateful for snow days, because they often bestow upon me one of my most … Read More
A while back I wrote about the practice of keeping a gratitude journal. In it I mentioned that before actively practicing gratitude I would lie in bed after a bad day and ruminate on what went wrong and worry about everything else that might go wrong as a result. Before integrating the regular practice of gratitude into my life, last night could have looked like this: Me lying in bed reliving Cleveland Indian’s pitcher Perez’s atrocious performance, … Read More
I presented at a local CHADD meeting a number of months ago on the topic: “Stump the Organizer”, which translates as, “Participants, bring your best organizing questions and we’ll try to solve them together.” I’ve learned over the years that those of us with ADHD often share many of the same organizing challenges and we can help ourselves by learning about each other’s challenges and related successes. As a coach, I believe my clients are the experts of … Read More
There are a lot of pessimistic people in this world. I know, I used to be one of them. Ok, I wasn’t pessimistic all of the time, but when confronted with a challenge, I found my mind would typically focus on the negative. Or when I had a bad day, I would lie in bed that night and ruminate on what went wrong and worry about everything else that might go wrong as a result. I started … Read More
I keep a gratitude journal and at some point I plan on writing about what a powerful influence it has been in my life. Today though I want to discuss what I wrote in that journal yesterday: “I am grateful for the opportunity to serve as witness to the amazing changes my clients are making in their lives.” An individual comes to me when they are overwhelmed by one or more areas of their life. The source … Read More