Reinvention–The Road You Have to Travel

On this road to reinvention, sometimes you find yourself just paddling along, not quite as energized as you first were with the idea of change.

It’s not because you’ve changed your mind, by any means! It’s just like you are taking a breather. Taking time to absorb the dynamics of the change that you have already experienced. You are in uncharted waters and are being confronted with new skill sets required to achieve your goals.

I find myself confronted with things I have no past experience with, yet the knowledge is required for accomplishing my goals. So I’m having to take time to learn them, which is making me feel like my efforts are being diluted.

I feel like I’m loosing momentum from having to divert my focus, but when I look at the overall picture, I realize that I’m still “focusing on my goals”, I’m just having to include a new learning component into my overall plan for success.

These are normal bumps on the road to [Read more...]

For the Thrill of It

I know I’ve talked about this before, and definitely in my book, The Most Selfish Woman in America, How to Make Your Divorce the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You!

You need to do something that takes your breath away!

I’m talking about one of those experiences where you find yourself squealing like a little girl . . . OK, work with me here!

This week I took “flight” on a Skycoaster. It is a cross between skydiving and hang-gliding on the end of a cable. You are harnessed onto the end of a very long cable and pulled up 183 feet to the top of a very tall pole. Then after you make peace with what you must do, you pull a “rip cord” and start diving/falling straight towards the ground until the cable swings you out and up to it’s pinnacle. Then you fall back from wince you came, just to do it all again. You swing like a pendulum, back and forth, until your momentum is completely spent, and you are left dangling and in awe.

The whole experience is thrilling and [Read more...]