Maria Connolly, LPC
Does it seem like your life goals are a moving target you never seem to hit? There’s always a lot of talk about setting life goals and achieving life goals. But the more important conversation centers around this question – are you setting the right goals?
Rather than settling for what’s comfortable and easily within your range, it’s also important to ask, How do I know that I’m aiming high enough, without making it unrealistically impossible to achieve?
One of the most profound transitions many women face is when children leave home for college or their own adventures. The house feels quieter. The routines you once lived by suddenly shift. Often, this stage of life is called the “empty nest syndrome” and moms are the “empty nesters”. But what if we reframed it? What if instead of emptiness, you began to see spaciousness, giving you room to grow, dream, and thrive and giving the kids room to do the same?
Sometimes, trying to make progress feels like you’re pushing a boulder uphill. When that happens, what do you do… push harder, give up, or pause to see what your body is trying to tell you? For example,
Maya had made the decision. She was finally launching her new business after years of dreaming about it. She invested in a branding coach, mapped out her offer, and scheduled her first announcement email.
But as launch day approached, she felt herself slowing down in ways she couldn’t explain.
Her neck seized up. She couldn’t sleep. Tasks she normally breezed through now felt impossible. The email draft sat untouched. The excitement she once felt dulled under a fog of procrastination and tightness in her chest.
“What’s wrong with me?” she wondered. “Why am I resisting the very thing I said I wanted?”
The truth is — her body wasn’t sabotaging her. It was trying to tell her something.
Intelligent people? What does that mean? From my point of view, intelligent people are fully aware of their entire spectrum of intelligence and continually work to make the mind-body-spirit connections stronger. So far we’ve explored different facets of my EMERGE method based on Embody: Somatic and Energetic Intelligence, Mindset: Cognitive and Experiential Intelligence, and Engage: Emotional and Relationship Intelligence. Today we’re exploring R for Resilience: Spiritual and Intuitive Intelligence.
Do you feel like you’re always battling against the clock and there’s not enough time to do what you need to get done, let alone what you want to do? And since your long to-do list is never finished, maybe you’re always nagged by a feeling of failure. Here’s a secret that can help: the best time management tips are built not on being task oriented but upon creating a mindful state of mind.