In my recent blog post, The Secret to Happiness: Being Vulnerable, I mentioned being inspired by Brene Brown’s work on vulnerability. Since then, I ordered and read her book, The Gifts of Imperfection. One word: Wow! A few years ago I had done a lot of inner child work. I came across the picture above, which became my visual mantra of the part of me that I wanted to recapture. And so again I return to this picture. She looks like she...

If you missed me yesterday at www.lauraroeder.com, you can check out my guest post here. Do you have a co-worker or colleague who may have the best intentions, but can’t find their way out of the stacks of papers on their desk?  Or perhaps you find that you just don’t enjoy being in your office for some reason.  Your office is an outward manifestation of what’s really going on with you and your business.  And with a few simple steps...

I went Fall shopping this weekend. Everything looked like clothes from Flashdance, but I managed to make out with some new threads that I really like. And now, of course, everything in my closet feels out of style! So this led to a massive closet clearing on Sunday afternoon. I came home with five new items and ended up with ten empty hangers – not to mention stuff from my drawers. Wow! My wardrobe shrank but I love everything in my closet...

I happened across Brene Brown recently. And as a result I have shifted the way I view the world. I’ve always known that being yourself, speaking your truth, being authentic were important ingredients to why I am here on Earth. I knew those things were essential to simply existing, but I’ve never thought about it in regards to being vulnerable. In Brene Brown’s TED speech – The Power of Vulnerability – she gives poignant...

In the documentary film, The Story of Stuff, Annie Leonard examines our national obsession with stuff and how it all began. She attributes our consumption addiction to the post-World War III economic policies that propagandized the notion of buying stuff. Our insatiable appetites haven’t been able to stop since. That is, until now. With the decline of the economy – whether directly affected or not – we have all started to take...