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Two steps will get things done – as long as you follow through

A book I am currently reading has a number of inspirational and relevant quotes in the margins. One that I just read, and had never heard before, is an Irish proverb that says, “Pray for potatoes with a hoe in your hand.” A few days after I read this quote, I was at Sunday Mass, where one of the readings – from the Book of James – was about the relationship between faith and works. Specifically, the message is that if you say you have [...]

By |September 18th, 2015|Achieving Dreams and Goals, Coaching, Columns, Faith, Quotes and Sayings, Success, Values|Comments Off on Two steps will get things done – as long as you follow through

Insights from enemies and friends

“The best way to defeat my enemy is to make him my friend.” Abraham Lincoln said that, and it’s become relevant in my life in a subtle but powerful way. Not that I have any enemies that I’m aware of. But there are people with whom I’ve had arguments, disagreements, and differences of opinion that occasionally got – or threatened to get – rather heated. Not to the point of violence, but to the point of anger, hurt feelings, grudges, or even the end of [...]

By |March 13th, 2015|Accountability, Columns, Faith, Quotes and Sayings|Comments Off on Insights from enemies and friends

What weighs us down can build us up

“I know God will never give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.” I don’t remember the first time I read or heard that saying, but I do know it made me smile and nod my head. I can relate. I’m sure most people can. And I smile and nod whenever I come across it, or when it pops into my mind for some reason. When I feel weighed down with responsibilities and obligations, for instance, or [...]

By |November 28th, 2014|Columns, Faith, Holidays, Quotes and Sayings|Comments Off on What weighs us down can build us up

Retiring women? I don’t think so!

I got a lot of feedback on the column I wrote last week – much of it from women who are roughly my age and who are living a life that is anything but “retiring.” In case you missed it, the column was inspired by the George Eliot quote, “It’s never too late to be who you might have been,” and was about women – myself included – who discovered a new talent or calling, and who pursued new dreams and adventures in what might [...]

By |April 11th, 2014|Columns, Quotes and Sayings|6 Comments

If life’s a journey – where are you going?

“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.” I have a bookmark that has this George Eliot quote on it, and I smile every time I look at it. It makes me think of people like Grandma Moses, who was in her late 70s when she first started painting, after arthritis forced her to give up the embroidery she had enjoyed for most of her life. She, of course, could be the poster child for it never being “too late.” But Grandma [...]

By |April 4th, 2014|Columns, Quotes and Sayings|6 Comments

You can’t fail if you learn the lessons and keep trying

Note: For ten weeks, Betty is using the Dream Coaching® program to work on finishing and publishing a book about her trip to Uganda, and is reporting on her progress in her weekly column. To read the series from the beginning, visit www.findyourburiedtreasure.com/blog. The introductory post is dated May 3, 2013. Failure can lead to success. Not only is this something I know to be absolutely true, it’s also the message of Session 7 in the Dream Coaching program. In order for failure to lead [...]

You’d better believe it!

Note: For ten weeks, I am using the Dream Coaching® program to work on my dream of finishing and publishing a book about my trip to Uganda, and I am reporting on my progress in my weekly column. As always, my column is posted on my blog every Friday. To read the series from the beginning, start with the introductory post, dated May 3, 2013. The tipping point. The straw that broke the camel’s back. These and other similar phrases and sayings have to do [...]

By |June 14th, 2013|Accountability, Coaching, Columns, Quotes and Sayings, Uganda, Writing|Comments Off on You’d better believe it!

Integrity honors your values, your word, and your dreams

Note: For ten weeks, I am using the Dream Coaching® program to work on my dream of finishing and publishing a book about my trip to Uganda, and I am reporting on my progress in my weekly column. As always, my column is posted on my blog every Friday. To read the series from the beginning, start with the introductory post, dated May 3, 2013. “Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.” I don’t know the source of that quote, but [...]

By |May 17th, 2013|Accountability, Coaching, Columns, Quotes and Sayings, Uganda, Values, Writing|Comments Off on Integrity honors your values, your word, and your dreams

Ancient wisdom, modern guides

The more time I spend coaching others – or being coached myself in different areas of my life and work – the more power and perception I see in age-old sources of wisdom. Though written eons ago, sayings that date back to Shakespeare, the Bible, Aesop, and whoever came up with the advice we now refer to as “old wives’ tales,” these deceptively simple sayings from ancient times can provide invaluable insights and guidelines for our lives today. “Say what you mean, and mean what [...]

By |April 25th, 2013|Accountability, Coaching, Quotes and Sayings|Comments Off on Ancient wisdom, modern guides

“Do what you love, love what you do.”

That mantra may seem like the Holy Grail – something that many people search and strive for, but never find. It remains elusive and out of reach, and we start to wonder whether it even really exists. It does. It’s very possible to do what you love, and love what you do. And not starve in the process. Melissa Olson, the woman who owns the Curves facility where I work out, is an excellent example of this. She loves what she does, and the people [...]

By |April 17th, 2013|Coaching, Quotes and Sayings|Comments Off on “Do what you love, love what you do.”