Author Archives: michelle

Relentless (I Am) :-)

A focused optimism and relentlessness.

I’m relentless about my focused optimism. That’s what my husband says (helps us live longer is what I say). Some of what we’ve had to stay optimistic about since arriving in Paris:

Visas – they’ll come through!
Great apartment – it’s just a matter of time and talking to more people (vs going through relo services)
Missing fam & friends – they’re coming to visit, we’ll make new memories via new experiences!
Making new friends – it’s just a matter of time and talking to more people
Life – the best (if there’s hard stuff, keep steady…we only know how good it is IF we also experience challenge, let’s simply not over focus on it)
Love your people in all ways — through words, physical affection and in quality time (we don’t get more time but we do have enough of it right here & now)

Hi again from France! What dreams do you want to make true even through some challenge? Let’s do it together. 😉

Let’s make happiness your business by creating your authentic brand…

To the best of the rest of your life!

Life is good.

Lent Me Her Wings

Maybe you have one of these mamas? And maybe she’s still here or maybe, like mine, she’s not?

She (My Mama) was the one who pushed for me to live in France when I was 17, the one who was elated to see me go to Madrid for part of Junior year, the festive mama (always) who happily threw us a party holding back her tears when I moved to Holland after I got married and then again before our move to Mexico when her only and favorite Nolie (grandson) was three years old.

Fancy Nancy was always a “yes, go do that!”

I might be tearing up as I share this with you…

It’s honestly how I love and honor her (and myself; the saying yes to desires, to the exploration of that which lives in and outside me).

I know it’s something she can absolutely feel where she is.

This photo was me on the plane recently moving to France.

You lent me your wings and I use them…

Who lent you their wings? 😉

Let’s make happiness your business by creating your authentic brand…

To the best of the rest of your life!

Life is good.

No Regrets (Summer Bday)

Day and night, no regrets.

“If I died tomorrow”, I’ve said to Josh over the last five or six years, “I would go without regrets” — and THAT is my grandest Summer birthday gift (realization) EVERY year.

As someone who loves to bring things to life, I think about death often and it helps direct my living [loving] better.

In addition to business and life coaching, I’m also, not shockingly to most who know me well, a certified death doula, so there’s also that.

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and say “I feel complete”, instead, I want to get to the end of each DAY feeling it and so… I DO!

Currently backing up all of life’s blessings, luck, experiences and love to the cloud(s)…

How about you?

Let’s make happiness your business by creating your authentic brand…

To the best of the rest of your life!

Life is good.

Front Burner

What’s on the back burner of your life right now that needs to be moved to the front burner?

Do it…

Do it now.

TODAY is a ladder to your joy, fulfillment, healing and full creative power. How will you seize THE DAY both professionally and personally?

When you do things now, both today *and* tomorrow greatly benefit…

Let’s make happiness your business by creating your authentic brand…

To the best of the rest of your life!

Life is good.