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New Year, New You?

January 3, 2020 | Blog, Videos

I love new beginnings. They can be scary, but they’re also full of possibility. Normally we make so many excuses for why we don’t embrace possibility - for why we can’t change. But a new beginning is a chance to shift this perspective. For some reason, it’s easier for us to embrace change at the beginning of something, especially a brand...

‘Tis the Season: How Generosity Breeds Peace

December 26, 2019 | Blog

Christmas is a time of giving. It's the season of merriness, warmth and good eats, but most of all, it’s about generosity. Depending on how you were raised, the generosity presents itself in the form of God sending his son to us on earth, Santa traveling around the world in a night to give gifts to all the little boys and girls, or your...

Creating Your Ideal Environment: Setting Yourself Up for Success

December 19, 2019 | Blog, Videos

Plant Lady—yup, that's me! My home is filled with plants. There's no corner that has escaped a bit of foliage. No windows in the room? No worries, I'll just place some dried flowers in a cool vintage vase. No space? No worries, I'll just hang it from the ceiling. But what do plants have to do with setting oneself up for success? SO MUCH. Before...

Why “Tips and Tricks” Don’t Work: Coping with Performance Anxiety Part Two

December 6, 2019 | Blog, Videos

I get it. Sometime you're in a pinch and you just want a quick fix! I feel the same, believe me. However, here's the annoying part: if we want lasting effects, we need to make significant change. Ugh, how demanding. But this is how life works. The simple and easy path rarely leads to deep, enduring results. I guess it's life's way of making sure...

My Performance Anxiety: Where it all started, unhelpful coping mechanisms, and flashbacks

November 28, 2019 | Videos

This week's video was a therapy session in and of itself! There's just something about actually verbalizing past events that really brings the lesson home. I share a bit about my first experience with performance anxiety and how I've had to deal with it throughout my career as a professional basketball—from the Olympics to overseas life, it has...

The Struggle Surprise: Why we should be just a little more pessimistic (Read: Realistic)

November 20, 2019 | Blog

A lot of life stirs up uncomfortable emotions. It’s an unfortunate truism. We like to think that life is meant to be solely pleasant. It’s not. There are wonderful moments of beauty and awe and joy and love, but there are moments of pain and sadness and anger and ugliness. Life is full of both kinds of experiences and the existence of one...

The Feeling of Failure

November 13, 2019 | Videos

We all struggle with the feeling of failure from time to time, but we don't often talk about it. It can be especially smothering when it starts to become part of your identity—your past mistakes start affecting your present decisions and reactions. The first step in creating a more peaceful, intentional life is acknowledging that emotional state!...

Asking Why: How one, simple word can help you fail better

November 6, 2019 | Blog

If you’re a parent, you’re familiar with this ubiquitous word in children’s lexicons. It seems to make an appearance every other sentence: Adult: “We need to put this bottle in the recycling bin.” Child: “Why?” Adult: “Because we want to help the environment.” Child: “Why?” Adult: “Because we need the environment in order to live.” Child: “Why?”...

My Failure Scripts…Setting Myself Up to Fail

October 31, 2019 | Videos

We all do this: behaving or reacting in a way that we KNOW set us up to fail. And since learning to fail better is essential to growth and success, in this video I share two of my personal failure scripts.

Capital “F” Failure: Why the small stuff matters

October 23, 2019 | Blog

How we deal with the small stuff matters. It may seem trivial, but our body and mind often reacts to our missteps like they’re capital “F” failures while we ascribe a lowercase “s” to our success. More importantly, we brush aside failures like they're not meant to be there, like we're aiming for a 100% failure-free life. What does that even look...