Share Yes, I did an annual review, I created goals for the new year, I have words (principles) to live by this year. But my theory is that great change, the big goals, the transformation of a life, does not happen in projects or goals or the grand objectives. Great change happens in the EveryDay.
About Elizabeth Potts Weinstein
Resisting Resistance
Share I am just not feeling it today. The blog post, the errands, the podcast, the emails, the dishes – everything on the to do list just looming over me. Today, I am plagued by resistance. None of the my usual strategies worked – couldn’t get myself to Panera Bread to write, cleaning out my [...]
Beginnings Require Ends.
Share It is that time of year. Whether it’s in the blog post I just read about a last week of December journal-a-thon, or my client yesterday afternoon who shared how she is working on her 2012 goals, it’s time to create the next plan, the next set of goals, to begin everything that will [...]
Meh.
Share “Good day so far?” To questions such as this, I like to answer “yes, it’s great!” or at least “sure, of course!” or something equally enthusiastic … as if pronouncing my day as going amazingly well will mean that it actually is fairies and chocolate and wet sand between my toes. But today is [...]
The Management of Expectations
Share I think that’s where broken hearts come from. False hopes. Misaligned expectations. Wishes uncommunicated. Assuming that something, someone, somethey was so aligned with you that your thing will automatically happen. That you will get in, that she will say yes, that he will want you, that they will buy, that the big heavy box [...]
I'm Elizabeth Potts Weinstein, a writer, teacher, and coach.