Faith or Fear -- the Choice is Yours!

Choose faith! Give hope!


Many of my clients are experiencing  dramatic changes. Your role as a leader is to embrace the change -- it is going to happen regardless. Embrace -- find the good -- speak about the possibilities for innovation and building the capacity of the individuals.


Fear keeps you stuck. Faith keeps you moving!


Move to a bright future. There are NO wasted experiences -- ever.


Gain the learnings and SOAR to new heights of awareness and potential.


We are pure potential. It is our fears that keep us small.


I've played small long enough -- how about you?

Be You!!!!!!!!

Hello again -- finally.


Life has a way of getting weird. I am blessed to teach what I most have to learn. Trust is the key.


Trust the process of life.


Trust that you will be given what you need, not necessarily what want.


The last several months have been topsy-turvy. Be resilient regardless of external forces is the focus of my third edition of my first book. Holy cow! Don't write something until you are ready for the tests. There have been many.


The end result, what counts is being me. While achievements, position and status are wonderful -- they can be fleeting as I see in my life and the lives of my clients. Being me -- now that's eternal -- seeing love beyond the fear.


Not the lesson I wanted, the lesson needed. Be love. The other stuff can just hold you hostage if you do not keep it in the right perspective.


wishing you joy to joy!

The 5 Levels of Human Dsyfunction

Apologies about not being consistent lately. Have you ever had those times in life when you can barely get out of bed? Recently I was hit by a 2X4 from a family member that had me spinning into the darkness I have fought since childhood.The betrayal inspired me to develop the 5 Levels of Human Dysfunction. I was inspired by Maslow's hierarchy of needs.


Level 1: Issues. We all have them in our lives.


Level 2: Wounded. Some of us have experiences that really smart, but eventually heal.


Level 3: Damaged: Because of some event, usually childhood or something like a messy divorce, a person feels like damaged goods.


Level 4: Tortured. Bless their hearts. They are in a constant state of turmoil, self-doubt and self-condemnation usually due to childhood programming.


Level 5: Sociopaths. Bless our hearts. They have no conscience. Blow them a kiss and run.


I use to be tortured many moons ago. By faith and better choices, I moved to having issues, with an occasional wounded. Having to model what I speak and write helped the transition -- God has a sense of humor.


This recent event had me tortured once again. Family hurts/betrayals are probably the worse.


I decided as an motivational speaker and empowering coach, tortured not good. So by grace and better choices, just wounded now.


My point, we always have a choice. Your choices define you, not others.


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Do you agree with the 5 levels? Any observations?