I’m wrap­ping up our explo­ration of curios­ity in the month of January by shar­ing a juicy self coach­ing tool with you. Enjoy!

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The past two Januarys, I’ve started the new year by select­ing a word of the year and cre­at­ing a vision board. There are many dif­fer­ent takes on what a vision board actu­ally is, how to cre­ate one, and what the pur­pose is. I’ve always tried my best to keep my vision boards fairly abstract and based on desired feel­ing states rather than spe­cific objects and out­comes I think I need/want in my life. I’ve never been into the whole idea of post­ing a pic­ture of a shiny new car on my board, for exam­ple, and expect­ing to mag­i­cally have a new car enter my life in the com­ing year. Somehow, that approach doesn’t sing to my soul. (If this approach works for you, by all means, rock it out.)

The open approach I’ve taken has served me well over­all, but this year I felt the need to go even deeper into the energy of open­ness and dis­cov­ery. Read more

At any given time in life, we all have a small (or not so small) hand­ful of things we are pretty cer­tain about. Maybe we’re absolutely cer­tain that jog­ging is the best form of exer­cise and every­one should seri­ously start a run­ning reg­i­men. Maybe we’re sure that a par­tic­u­lar polit­i­cal can­di­date is the answer to our country’s prob­lems. Maybe we whole­heart­edly believe that high fruc­tose corn syrup is destroy­ing lives and needs to be banned. Admit it, you hold at least a few of these types of pas­sion­ate beliefs. I know I do. And I say, these are great places to invite some curios­ity.  Read more

I’m sure it will come as no sur­prise that ask­ing ques­tions is one of the best ways to bring more curios­ity to your life. However, not all ques­tions are equal when it comes to cre­at­ing open­ness for dis­cov­ery in your life. In fact, some ques­tions can totally shut down the pos­si­bil­ity for new insights. Check out this week’s video for the full scoop!

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Today I’m shar­ing the biggest gifts of curios­ity in my life. What has curios­ity done for you? What might it bring you this year? Read more

Happy New Year! Today, I’m excited to share a lit­tle change to the struc­ture of the weekly Sparks for this year. Read more

This time of year, I tend to get very reflec­tive. I like to do things like scan through my sent email folder for the past 12 months, flip back through my jour­nal pages for the year, look through the pic­tures I’ve taken. Read more

Today, I am cel­e­brat­ing life — my own life and the new life I’m grow­ing. I am 33 years old today… and four­teen weeks preg­nant. Will you cel­e­brate with me? Let’s dance! Read more

It’s totally nat­ural and nor­mal to desire a sense of con­trol in life. But when we chase after con­trol, we usu­ally end up feel­ing really out of con­trol. I think there’s a bet­ter way…

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I love mak­ing the weekly Spark videos. It’s not a chore. If it was, I wouldn’t do it. I enjoy let­ting the ideas float into my brain. I enjoy film­ing the videos. I enjoy edit­ing the videos. And I espe­cially enjoy shar­ing the videos with you. Sometimes I film the videos well in advance. And some­times I find myself on Sunday after­noon won­der­ing what the heck I’m going to say. However, when I relax and let go, an idea always comes in its own sweet time, even if I’m right down to the per­ceived wire. Read more