The other day I set up Google Plus on my mom's laptop. I was glad she asked me and glad I could help. After all, I am more exposed to modern technology as a younger person; I should help. I don't expect my mom to be able to teach me...

Your relationship to time is one of your most important relationships. Consider that time is the currency of your life. All the choices you make about how to spend your time add up to the kind of life you have. The kind of life you have gives you the kind...

You've heard the joke that babies don't come with manuals, right?

People are usually shocked at what it's actually like to become a parent. As a coach, I get a huge kick out of it, because it engenders great humility, since full grown adults are reduced to...

I enjoy a good tarot card or personality test reading every now and again. I am not offended by the notion that I could learn more about myself through a new lens. But years ago, when my life coach suggested my body was also a "reading," I was taken aback.

There are so many ups and downs to the holiday season and so many opportunities for you to tune out what's really important to you. Whether it is to maintain or lose weight and/or avoid credit card debt, or something else, these goals don't need to be cast...

How's your mental diet?

I am not talking about what you eat today, but what you allow into your mind! Isn't it just as important? It is, because, like food, you have to live with every last consequence of your choices, and often that's unpleasant if you aren't choosing consciously....

I hereby grant you permission to dream about your job. This is your official permission slip. Want to know how to use it to its fullest extent? Read on.

The average American lifetime includes 90,000+ hours of work time.* If you are not using those hours to live out...

I believe we were meant to be happy. I am also pretty certain it was meant to be a challenge to get and stay happy, or else we'd take it for granted and get bored. So then, life is about the pursuit of happiness. I used to be generally unhappy,...

Marriages* are not generally lasting these days. But why? We are not naturally monogamous, but it's not just other people we cheat with, we also cheat with food, attending to the kids, work and our addictions. These are the things over time that break up marriages.

In...

The other day, I was in a knee-jerk control mode, trying to get my way with my kids. All the phenomena I experienced were familiar: in the middle of my rant, I felt noble, all my logic made perfect sense to me. The voices in my head sounded intelligent: They...

This is not your typical parenting list. This is a deeper cut into understanding your responsibilities as a parent and it's a little radical, so be prepared. The basic theory is this: your kids are going to turn into you. In many ways, you've turned into your parents (or a...

When I was your age, we didn't have cell phones or laptops.

When I was your age, we had to work for our spending money.

When I was your age, kids respected their parents.

When I was your age, I walked barefoot to and from school, uphill both ways.

"When...

It feels so good. Is it really so bad?

I think it's too simple to say, "Judging is wrong," or "I am trying to be less judgmental." I hear it in yoga and spiritual circles all the time; we are quieting our minds to stop all the ceaseless judging. But...

Have you noticed that the New Agers are telling you to go toward your bliss? To notice what you love to do, what gives you pleasure and joy, and do more of that? Pshaw, I say. Gravitate to what you hate.

Here are some things I used to hate:

Thank God I'm a Life Coach, Not a Therapist

Recently, my husband and I spent two days coaching a couple once so in love, now on the brink of divorce. Though they had gone through plenty of therapy, there was little resolution. They were both in pain...

When surveyed, the most popular subject on which HG life coaching clients wanted coaching was time management. So I am dedicating today's blog to helping you stop squandering your time and feeling out of control about it. We live in an age where you can't possibly get everything...

Coaching implies a sideline and a field. As your coach, I am on the sideline while you are on the field in your life, with your people, playing the game. It's my job to get you really good at it, but your job isn't passing, shooting, running, defending the goal,...

Will Craig, my husband of 13 years (we've been together 18 so far and so far no cheating) and I have something really great going, but, as you know if you read my life coaching blog, it wasn't always so great. We both admire our parents' marriages and...

Once I had a client with a bad habit. I made her keep track and she found she was complaining to friends, several times a day. It seems like if we aren't busy putting others down to make ourselves feel better, then we are busy putting ourselves down to supposedly...

Yoga teaches us to live in the present moment. Yes. Certain schools of yoga posit that the present is the only reality, and all else is illusion -- yet our minds manufacture distracting "illusions" all the time. Our inner voices are constantly re-hashing situations, projecting, speculating, doubting. In yoga practice,...