Category: Career: Crafting Your Story

The Why and What of your Life

Why I’ve stopped saying, “Everything happens for a reason.”

  Because it makes me frustrated.  Frustrated that we get shoved out of the driver’s seat and into this Driving-Miss-Daisy sort of escorting-the-incapacitated situation.  Frustrated that we would dismiss the fact that whether or not our choices led to this moment, inherently our choices can get us past it.  Whatever the ‘reason’ is, if it is divinely inspired, I don’t… Read more →

The Gift of Letting Go

  January 1st.  The day of new beginnings.  The day of resolutions. What if you’re stepping into your beginning with regret, doubt, and disappointment with how you left off your year? I didn’t tell many, but I had been accepted into a Masters Program of Counselling Psychology.  I was going to achieve a dream.  I was going to be a professional… Read more →

The Power of Editing your Life

I hope you all had a Merry Xmas! As we turn our thoughts towards 2017, remember that our experience is profoundly influenced by our perspective.  If our internal editor cuts and splices our experiences together to tell a good story then we may be in for a good life.  Our perspective can also shape our story into a negative one. For… Read more →