I wrote this on my birthday.

Note to self: Self: don't look for pictures of birthday cake when you're hungry. 

It was nine years ago that I decided to become a life coach.

I wrote a letter to myself before I went on a trip to Death Valley -the lowest point on the continent. And once there, I ceremoniously read this letter aloud and put my flag in the ground, symbolically speaking, right there in the salt flats of Badwater Basin And then I toasted with a glass of champaign with my...

That all the pieces are already there?

Are they? you may be asking.

You think "If I could just...

• Learn this technique.
• Understand that strategy.
• Do what so-and-so is doing.
• Get some experience doing X.
• Do [this].
• Figure out [that].

...I'd be able to get to the next level which would allow me to get to the NEXT level and the NEXT...and then MAYBE all that would add up to the life I really want...which is X."

My dear...when will you see that you can skip to X a lot quicker than you think?

...

Are you at the edge? Have you had enough?

It's a good place to be, you know - the edge of enough, that is. Because when you've truly had enough - you're ripe for change. 

If you still want to hang on...

If you feel like you can take it a little longer...

If the cost is still too great to make a change...

If the old is still better than the unknown or the new...

Well then... you're just not ready.

You can SAY you want something. You can think it would be NICE to have something...but the...

I love that sweet spot people hit when they are sitting on the fence about a decision to #GoForIt or not.

Though that idea of sitting on the fence is an optical illusion.

How so? So glad you asked.

The fence isn't sitting on some imaginary line of yes or no, of this or that. No. The fence sits squarely on the side of right where you are now.

Not deciding - is deciding. It means you haven't gone for it - yet.

To procrastinate the decision is to decide to change nothing. At least for now.

Why,...