How to Motivate Yourself– Five Tips for Helping You Achieve Your Goals

One of the big challenges we all have is how to motivate ourselves to do the things we KNOW we need to do, the things we know will give us more energy if we just did them. How do you stoke the fire, light a flame under your ass, make yourself invest the energy to get something going and follow through?

Here are five ways to get a handle on this:

1. Motivation Starts With Intention

Motivation starts with intention. It’s hard to motivate yourself if you don’t know what you want, and even harder if you don’t remember what …

Dealing with Misfortune; How to Survive and Thrive

Most of the time when people come in for coaching or for a tarot reading they’re looking for help. Things aren’t going the way that they want them to, or maybe they are, but whatever transition or transformation that they’re going through is causing them suffering and sleepless nights. Sometimes even low-level dissatisfaction, if it’s constant, can really eat away at us.

How do you deal when something bad happens or if you’re caught in some form of misery that you can’t seem to shake? Here’s some suggestions:

There’s a difference between pain and suffering.

Pain is a natural response …

How to Find Your Own Voice

One of life’s big challenges is going within and managing to find your own voice, but sometimes that’s easier said than done. When we’ve spent so much time trying to live up to our own and other people’s expectations it’s often hard to figure out at heart, what we really want and think. Here’s some advice for separating out other people’s voices you’ve internalized from your own.

Reread your journal

It’s easy to write journal entry after journal entry and then never look at them again. But your journal is a treasure trove of the real you. Sometimes we may …