One Next Action

Happy Easter!

One of my favorites every time, and such a great multi-layered reminder.

Besides making sure I don’t get hit by a train or vehicle, I’m looking up and noticing the beauty around me, paying attention to the wins (and not all that’s left to do), and celebrating success.

How are you looking up today?

Whatever you call it, I love spending thoughtful time each year thinking about the year to come. Like many, I’ve alternated over the years between mix of set SMART goals, directional intentions, a general vision for the year, a word of the year, and more. As I’ve gone deeper into the world of professional coaching, I’m loving leaning into letting ideas unfold and not feeling so forced into set specifics.

I’ve had too many years where the goals were “lose X lbs, save X $$, accomplish X habit-based goals.” None of those are bad in and of themselves, but I’m realizing that addressing the ‘to-do’s’ only go so far without addressing the underlying why’s. Focusing on outcome-based goals misses the journey along the way. And frankly, I’m tired of not being fully honest with myself about what’s actually important to me in a given moment.

As I reflected on 2022 and looked ahead to 2023, I explored a bunch of ideas that kept coming back around to the idea of re-discovery, coming back to the core of things, etc. But it’s not about rediscovering who I WAS, it’s about perspective on what was with the focus on where I’m GOING.

It’s about critical thinking and how I see the world; it’s how I look at you; My world view (the 90’s Christian teen in me can’t help adding the next lines from Audio Adrenaline’s “My World View” while singing along in my head).

The last few months have opened the door to a whole lot of discovery around neurodiversity and its impacts on our family. That journey is rapidly changing our perspective on so many aspects of life.

Last night we were working on a 1000-piece puzzle with some friends. I placed exactly zero pieces while Levi repeatedly picked up a piece, turned it around, and dropped it into place. In his very matter of fact way he stated, “You just need to turn it a different way and it fits.”

Here’s to a year of turning puzzle pieces around, looking at things just a little differently, and gaining a new perspective.

Turns out unplanned sabbaticals lead to the birth of long-held passion projects. Yes, has been my Instagram handle for a lifetime, but you may not know it’s also been a long-neglected website.

This spring, it’s turning into a leadership + project management consulting business. 🎉 We’ll see if this becomes the long-term full time thing or a fun side gig.

The last few months have been SO MUCH FUN working with my first clients and seeing them get incredible results (along with lots of cuddles with my boys, burnout recovery, and dreaming for the future).

👩🏻‍💻I’ve currently got limited openings for 1:1 coaching, quarterly group coaching and organizational project-portfolio management / operations consulting engagements.

Check out the website link in my bio, and hit me up in the comments or DMs to let me know your burning leadership and management questions and comments!