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We Are Not Our History

January 31, 2017 by nextstep 2,904 Comments

 Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories. Zadie Smith  “I’m not very coordinated, so I’m not very good at things like this.” So stated a rather capable person at the beginning of an ice-breaker exercise known as a “ball toss.” It’s composed of two parallel lines of people who toss balls, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: Moving forward, personal development, Personal growth, potential

Winter Teacher

January 16, 2017 by nextstep 6,114 Comments

The winter season is providing us with a lesson we must heed. The area of Northern Illinois in which I reside, stands in winter’s hard and icy grip. Most of the vegetation appears lifeless. The trees are bare, the grass is brown, the ground is frozen, no apparent growth is occurring. To most plant-life, winter is … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: dormancy, over work, personal development, Personal growth, rest, rhythm

Move Forward with Resolution

January 8, 2017 by nextstep 15,379 Comments

Because we human beings live consciously inside a medium called time, we experience everything in life as having a beginning and an ending. We count our age with annual birthdays, and our marriages with annual anniversaries. We evaluate history in units of time: years, decades and centuries. Because that is so, it is inevitable that … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: excuses, gratitude, life coaching, Personal growth, resolutions, starting over

Give Yourself a Gift

December 13, 2016 by nextstep 2,826 Comments

In the book, “The Power of Positive Thinking,” by Norman Vincent Peale, he shares a story of a pole vaulter. On this particular day, he was up for a scholarship. That meant that if he made the vault, like he had made it before, he was going to get an athletic scholarship to college. We … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: gifts, life coaching, personal power, self-empowerment

Harvesting the Seeds We’ve Planted

November 26, 2016 by nextstep 6,062 Comments

What are you planting today to harvest tomorrow? Lailah Gifty Akita Let’s ask ourselves, “What am I harvesting in my life? What do I regularly experience? Am I harvesting satisfaction, accomplishment, success, peace of mind, happiness, prosperity? Or, am I harvesting (experiencing) difficulty,  challenge, stress, busyness, ill-health?” It’s quite likely that we’re experiencing a desirable harvest in some areas of our … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: happiness, harvest, life coaching, personal development, Personal growth

Spiritual Identity Theft

August 23, 2016 by nextstep 13,946 Comments

If I am more frightened of the appearance, than I am confident about my ability to do anything about it, I have allowed that appearance to steal my identity.  Rev. Jesse Jennings We hear about identity theft all the time. I’ve witnessed some clever, and some scary commercials about it. You can purchase both identity … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: Compromising, personal development, Personal growth, Spiritual identity theft

Transitions – When One Door Closes

July 19, 2016 by nextstep 24,970 Comments

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” Alexander Graham Bell” Our lives are rife with doors closing and opening. Some doors slowly and softly close as we exit them, validation that the time has come … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: doors closing, personal development, Personal growth, self help, transitions

Find Quiet Time

July 5, 2016 by nextstep 5,241 Comments

“Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers.” Ester Buchholz “There’s no more idle time.” This was a statement said to me while talking with a social media consultant. His point being, that we’re typically filling … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: meditation, personal development, Personal growth, Quiet time, self-care, silence

A Matter of Perspective

June 21, 2016 by nextstep 1,597 Comments

“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. … In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the coloring, sportsmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: personal development, Personal growth, Perspective, viewpoint

Happiness, Not So Elusive Afterall

June 7, 2016 by nextstep 9,851 Comments

If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap. If you want happiness for a day – go fishing. If you want happiness for a month – get married. If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime – help others. Chinese Proverb. We cannot … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: happiness, helping others, personal development, Personal growth
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