After 10 years of working with my fantastic partners, Chris Chopyak and Lois Todd in our company Alchemy: The Art of Transforming Business, I have decided to do something different. Read More...
Freedom – the Heart of Change
Recently when I was facilitating a world cafe conversation on spirituality I felt something in my world start to shift. I couldn’t quite call out what or why this major change needed to occur, I just knew intuitively it had to. Read More...
Try Something New With Your Mind
Okay I confess, I’m a junkie for new ideas. I love trying new things especially when they make me feel slightly uncomfortable. I get pure joy out of stretching myself beyond what I think is possible and what I believe I know to be the “truth”. Read More...
Trusting Your True North in Uncertain Times
When things slow down or we feel uncertain, as is typical with uncertain times like those we are currently experiencing, the first thing people often do is start to question themselves or what they are doing. Read More...
ReWiring Your Brain
This year more than ever, my clients have been complaining about feeling distracted by a multitude of issues. The news, the political shifts, organizational cut backs, restructuring, lay-offs have taken up a lot of their time and energy in our “new economy”. Did you know that you can change your response to these shifts in […] Read More...
Deja Vu? Have You Considered Hooking Up With Your Past?
Okay I was skeptical. One day I got an email from someone I “sort of” knew in high school wanting to connect for coffee. “We live in the same town, why not connect?” she suggested. I was the same age as her brother, but I still had a picture of her perched on the backseat […] Read More...
Dreaming Your New Reality From the Inside Out
Last week I introduced you to how to use the Snapshot of the Big Picture map to set goals. In the snapshot process, you embed drawings and words of what you want in your new desired reality into the right side of the snapshot template. Then you determine some bold steps you need to take […] Read More...
The Alchemy of Planning
You’ve heard the myth that extensive planning breeds the best results? At Alchemy we are involved in all types of planning, but extensive, tedious – that strategic plan that becomes a book and remains on the shelf – isn’t one of them. Read More...
When It Comes to Getting Advice, To Thine Own Self Be True
People love to give advice. No matter what I am doing or interested in doing in the future, if I share my idea or “what’s up with me” with someone else, they always have something to say about it. Read More...
I Just Called To Say…
What is valuable to you? Is it your stuff? Your job? To me it is other people. I like to connect with other people. I also like to acknowledge great work, even if I don’t know the person who did it. Read More...