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Category: ten in three

  • How to Create a Life Changing Bucket List (and One That You’ll Actually Follow)

    How to Create a Life Changing Bucket List (and One That You’ll Actually Follow)

    With the rise of the Bucket List, many people are looking for ways to create a life changing Bucket List that they will actually follow. Somewhere in the Bucket List becoming trendy, it took on a life of its own that makes it hard for it to live up to…

  • I Want to Help Others Fly

    I Want to Help Others Fly

    A year and a half ago, I was working with a life coach, and was looking to leave advertising, and wanted to find a job that would give me better balance, that would shorten my 4 hour daily round trip commute. At the time, I was also trying to decide what…

  • Our Wedding Dance, or Dancing in the Kitchen

    Our Wedding Dance, or Dancing in the Kitchen

    Sean and I got married in October in an intimate setting. The wedding ceremony we had might not be termed as lavish particularly. But yes, we had plans to host a lavish one amidst a pecan orchard. We even considered booking a Wedding Venue in Fort Worth, TX that had…

  • Getting Out of My Head and Into My Heart

    I know that over the last year or so, I’ve been really mindful and aware of the fact that I’d felt stuck. So many of the dreams I’d had seemed out of reach, and I could not figure out why. It struck me that I’m SUCH a planner, such a…

  • A Letter From My Future Self as I Begin Life Coach Training

    Last weekend, I traveled about an hour north to the town of Petaluma to begin my journey of life coach training. Just two days after getting home, there is still so much that I am wading through … emotions, learnings, feelings, excitement. Being a life coach is something I really…

  • The Double Edged Sword of Marketing

    I’m in the midst of changing my life, and working hard to become a life coach after fifteen years of working in advertising agencies. One morning this week, I had an aha moment when I woke up, drafting this on my phone before I even got out of bed. Double…

  • 2015 is The Year of ‘No Toggle’

    “No Toggle” is a phrase I first heard in a Jess Lively’s podcast, during her interview with Kris Carter. In a nutshell, Kris is striving to live his life as authentically and intentionally true to his purpose as possible. It means that he strives to be the same person at…

  • Introducing a New Group for Bloggers: Tiny Biz Hustle

     Last week I started up a new Facebook group called “Tiny Biz Hustle.” It’s geared towards bloggers, tiny business owners, solo-preneurs and entrepreneurs who are interested in collaborating around digital marketing. Or honestly, any one that is new to marketing online. I worked in marketing and advertising for 15 years,…

  • Speaking the Words of Your Dreams: On Being Honest With Myself About Changing Careers

    This blog has been such a journey of learning to speak the words of my dreams. It strikes me that even the choice of the name, Welcoming Spirit, was the open invitation for change and love and spirit to enter my life after my divorce eight years ago. And since…