It's important to face the fact that time is the currency of life and it's sacred. You cannot accomplish everything, but you can accomplish a lot of what is important to you with awareness, smart thinking and good promises.

You deserve a rich, joyful 2012, and it is available to you. Grab a journal or grab a friend, and share your answers to this series of prompts.

My invitation to you is to get brutally honest with yourself about what is truly motivating your desire to work on yourself.

Everyone has their list of conversations they are avoiding and people with whom they never want to get resolved. I want to train you in a new method and get you very facile at having those tough conversations.

Can you stop overeating? Can you control your drinking? Can you put the cigarette down? The real answer is "of course you can." The issue is will you?

Truth be told, I wanted to learn more about Martha Beck, so I contacted her with the intent of turning it into an interview. She agreed, but only if I would allow her to coach me on something.

We are at a critical time in human evolution, a time when we can generate true shifts in consciousness. The values we cultivate in coaching, noted below, resonate from yoga practitioners to teachers of all kinds and back.

We hide the truth for a lot of seemingly reasonable reasons. I've found that most people think they are protecting others by covering up, as if sheltering them from the truth is doing them a favor.

When a great new opportunity comes across your desk, is your first thought, "Yes!" or is it, "How could I make that happen?"

The wisest thing we can do in that kind of moment is... nothing. The wisest thing we can do is say: "Wow, hello," and welcome this sacred guest.

More than three weeks into 2009 you have ambitiously begun to tackle resolutions to bring forward in your life changes to enhance your quality of livi...

If you are ending the year with anything less than a "Wow, what a year," then the change you really need to make this year is to enlist help and support to achieve your goals. Shared goals are more likely to happen.