“How’s your blog on procrastination?”, my husband chuckled. You see, I was going to have this finished last week, ahead of time, so I could relax and write with ease. But that wasn’t to be. This blog only came to be because of one thing, accountability. I procrastinated until I really, really couldn’t delay anymore. Today is the day my marketing partner and I decided this blog is going to be published. Today is the day that I finish the blog. Read More…

I was talking with another pig owner the other day (hang with me here, it turns to ADHD soon) and we were agreeing that you can’t really *make* a pig do anything. They are stubborn, independent-minded, strong and smart. You just have to kind of set them up so what they want to do aligns with what you want them to do. I normally do this with little piles of food and healthy doses of patience. A pig will follow food anywhere… at their own pace and maybe on their own circuitous route.

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How I transformed my life from living “the” dream to living my dream.

Who doesn’t want to live the dream? Certainly after a decade of my ambitious 20’s I was expecting to be living the dream when I hit my 30’s. I had lots of the pieces of “the dream” in place. I had gotten my Master’s degree, and was living on the outskirts of Boston working in the high-tech field during the great dot com bubble. I was earning good wages and by all accounts doing well as a career-oriented young professional. But I wasn’t happy.

I was starting the process of looking for a new career, but I had no idea what I wanted to do. I was incredibly fortunate that a job fair that I went to had a group of life coaches who were giving away 15 minute sessions. I didn’t know about life coaching at the time, but I had 15 minutes to spare and felt that I could really use some guidance. Looking back at it now, I realize that was a pivot point in my life. I hired a coach.
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There’s a lot of pressure today to “live the dream” but what does that mean really? You know if you’re absolutely *not* doing it… but how do you even know if you are doing it? Based on more than a decade of coaching and 40+ years of personal experience I think living the dream is clearer than it seems at first glance. It borders on formulaic. In fact, I can lay out the framework for you in the length of this blog.

The first step in living the dream is knowing what you value / what makes you happy. There’s no point in living someone else’s dream. I can tell you for certain that unless you’re one of those rare completely typical people whose values 100% line up with societal values that living a dream based on societal values will not be satisfying. Rather, you need to get in touch with what makes you tick.
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So, this morning I didn’t wake up in a great mood. I had a hard time getting up. I didn’t want to do anything. I was laying there thinking that I might lose this day to my ADHD. Then, that nag in my brain reminded me that I’m an ADHD coach and I should use my damn skills. So, out I went to the yard.

Folks, at 6:45 this morning, this ADHD coach was in her yard wearing her pajamas and some nice bed head loping invasive bushes and pulling roots. It felt great! I was getting stuff done. As the morning coffee kicked in and the exercise of root pulling and brush pile creating helped me get my head clear I started to compose this post. Read More!

One of the key phrases that was drilled into our heads at the ADD Coach Academy is

“What you pay attention to grows”.

I have had this phrase in my head for 15 years now and it has proven to be crazy powerful while being ridiculously simple at the same time.

The phrase encourages you to notice what you’re giving all of your time, energy and attention to and makes you question if that is where you want to focus your life. If you focus on worries and anxiety they will grow. If you focus on your strengths and the things you are grateful for those will grow.

I find for myself and many of my clients a shift in perspective is often all that is needed to see our way out of a situation where we feel stuck. Read More