By Marianne Clyde Create the habit of checking how you feel, often. At first glance this might sound selfish. Yes, it is focusing on yourself, but you absolutely must learn to love yourself first; you need to care for yourself first and you need to trust yourself first. If you don’t learn to maintain a healthy and positive outlook, and respect how you feel, and adjust it when necessary. It’s...
By Marianne Clyde Many of us know we need to change something about ourselves, but it's just so darn hard to get motivated. Want to lose weight? Stop drinking? Get a new kind of client? Break into a higher level network? Start exercising? Make more money? What's stopping you? Maybe it's easier to think of it in terms of parenting. Which type of approach was more effective in helping your kids...
By Marianne Clyde Has anyone ever told you that you can't do something? Have YOU ever told yourself that? And then you actually did it? I had not been at our expat assignment long, when I began to slip into a bit of a depression. Feeling out of sorts. Feeling like I didn't fit in. Unsure of all that I thought I knew. Missing my kids. Missing my very busy counseling practice. Getting used to...
By Marianne Clyde When women come together and discuss how to be empowered in any area, there is an energy that feels vibrant and stimulating and strong! We felt this energy at our recent Supernova Summit. A room full of empowered women creates contagious energy that has ripples around the world. There are a lot of reasons to do what we can to empower each other. These are a few that we think...
By Marianne Clyde Sometimes it feels like my emotions grab the controls of my life and things seem to come to a screeching halt. Has that ever happened to you? Taking time to examine and pay attention is the simple answer. Just like a child having a tantrum, our feelings just need to be acknowledged, recognized and comforted. The child inside just needs to be heard; and you, as the adult, are...
by Marianne Clyde Are people around you discouraging your dream? Do they tell you that your idea is too big? That no one cares about your dream? That is no reason to get discouraged. However it is a reason to recognize that those opinions are "just information." Those comments are important for you to hear to help guide you where you need to go. If the people you surround yourself are people who...
By Marianne Clyde Determining the way you feel in any given situation is a vital element of your internal GPS system. YOU are the one that must determine how you want to feel, how your day is going to go, how you plan to navigate your life. Just like when you use the GPS system on your car. YOU set the direction before you even leave your house. YOU determine where and how you want to go and...
By Marianne Clyde Do you ever wonder what is the most important thing you can do to have a happy life? It’s actually pretty simple. Easy? Maybe not so much. It’s this. Learn to accept total responsibility for everything in your life. Of course things happen that you don’t expect. Of course people can act in a way that’s not optimal. Of course there are circumstances beyond your immediate...
By Marianne Clyde What was your first reaction to that title? Yeah, right! Baloney. "Really, where is it, then?" Or was there a glimmer of hope that it might be true? Well it IS true. There is a benevolent force in the universe that loves you, wants you to be happy, and created you to be a co-creator with it. You are one with this force of love and joy and wisdom. At your core, you are...
by Marianne Clyde Oh my God! I will be 70 in 2 days! How does that happen? Suddenly, it seems like time is short. There's more urgency to my life. I'm actually done with a few types of behaviors that always seemed proper or necessary. Now I recognize how important it is to ask the question: Who decided these behaviors were proper or necessary? Other people. What other people? Well I probably...
