Living in our strengths and passions to make the world a better place is ultimately satisfying. Under this category, we talk about how to align our lives with our strengths, passions, values and life experience. In short, we talk about how to live our calling.
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, what’s fake and what’s real? Click here to listen. What’s real and what’s fake these days? There’s fake news and fake food. We can even have fake–or at least shallow–impact and connections with other people. We’ll explore how to evaluate quality and what deserves to have the highest […]
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, how do you measure your life? Click here to listen. We will explore different criteria you can use to define what it means to have a life that’s well-lived. It’s better to ask this question now while you still have time to make some changes. You can […]
The image for today’s blog is my own hand drawn image. You can see my budding artistic ability showing through here. Okay, so I’m probably not going to win any prizes for this one. However, this image shows one reason why we feel alone. In case you can’t see it, the image depicts two icebergs. […]
The title says it all. What is your life about? Other ways of asking this question might be, “Where are you going?”, and “How do you measure your life?” To start, we might need to ask if you’re life is about anything at all. Some of you might suggest that there isn’t a grand design, […]
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, learn how to set great goals. Click here to listen. ‘Tis the season for goal setting. But not all goals are created equal. Learn how to set — and achieve — really great goals that support you in moving forward in life. You can listen to the […]
Self care is a great thing. On the surface, it may seem selfish–like you shouldn’t take the time and effort for yourself. However, it turns out that you can be more present for other people and more loving when you have been taking good care of yourself. Moms are notorious for not spending much time […]
Welcome to 2017! Everyone seems to love a new year. There’s a sense of leaving old things that aren’t so great behind. And there’s hope and positive expectation for new and better things. It feels like we get a fresh start. But I’ve also noticed that people tend to classify a whole year as bad […]
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, we share great mindsets to move you forward in making a positive impact. Click here to listen. You will learn new ways of thinking that will help you create more positive change in your own life and in the lives of other people. You can think like–and […]
At Simply Great Lives we help people experience and learn about many mindsets during our events. One of the important ones is the growth mindset vs the fixed mindset. Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. has researched this. She has found that successful people predominantly work with a growth mindset. You can explore more on this topic […]
As we are about to begin 2017, there are two directions we should look to make 2017 great. We should look both backwards and forwards. Looking Back Some folks only look forward. These folks try their hardest to forget or at least ignore the past. They may even claim to have no regrets. I believe these […]
