by Patricia C. Brooks | Jan 24, 2021 | Shift perspective
When people tell me I’m lucky it annoys me a little. They see my success or what I’m doing and think it came easily and without effort. But it didn’t. I created my luck through hard work, through inner work, through facing my fears and going beyond, through making...
by Patricia C. Brooks | Jan 17, 2021 | Shift perspective
Are you closed off from seeing opportunities or hearing valuable information because you are judging the messenger as unintelligent, too young, or in some other way not qualified to be taken seriously despite their obvious and documented qualifications? I used to...
by Patricia C. Brooks | Jan 10, 2021 | Time
Tomorrow I’ll reform the fool doth say, today already too late, the wise did yesterday. I’ve got a couple of questions for you: First, what change do you want to see in your life that you believe will bring you greater satisfaction? Is it a house project? Is it...
by Patricia C. Brooks | Jan 3, 2021 | Effective Decision Making, forward action
Being stuck in indecision or in needing to execute something perfectly creates anxiety about the future and trashes our energy. We can find ourselves falling into a state of inertia, paralyzed by fear and self-doubt . What if I make the wrong choice? What if it...
by Patricia C. Brooks | Dec 29, 2020 | Embracing Change
Have you ever heard the story about how if you put a live frog in a pot of room temperature on a stove and then turn up the heat gradually under the pot that the frog becomes accustomed to the higher water temperature and doesn’t jump out. Eventually he is cooked...
