Author Archives: Mary Ellen Sailer
Being at choice
You’ve arrived at the capstone post for better living! Congratulations! If you review the penultimate post, “understanding attraction,” you’ll notice that the attraction activities I have encouraged are much more than things to do, they are ways to be. Being, … Continue reading
Understanding Attraction
Here is where better living gets really enjoyable! Remember the shift that occurred when you named what you most treasured? In the post entitled “the treasures of your life,” I wrote: This new value orientation will also cause a … Continue reading
The Treasures of your Brilliant Life
What do you find to be exquisite in your life? What is really valuable to you? Do you know what matters most to you? The things you value guide the way you act. They shape the decisions you make. It … Continue reading
Integrity
In the small matters trust your mind; in the large ones, the heart. Sigmund Freud What is integrity? Integrity isn’t something you pull off the shelf, or out of a safe, when times are difficult. Integrity is a unifying way … Continue reading
Claim the necessary boundaries
(If you have skipped the post on Standards for Better Living, please go back and read it before reading this one.) One of the most liberating realizations I had in understand the mechanics of better living was learning about the … Continue reading
Standards for Better Living
Remember how I stated that the most important relationship to address in the quest for better living is the one that you have with yourself? Therefore, it goes to follow that the standards for better living must be YOUR personal … Continue reading
Don’t Tolerate Anything, part two
Please recall the activities I requested that you do to clean up your past, unresolved issues (the “clean it up” post from August 21.) By completely addressing those issues, your immediate benefit was that you got rid of lugging around … Continue reading
Don’t Tolerate Anything, part one
Thomas Leonard, the founder of the coach training program “Coach U,” coined the word “tolerations” to describe the little things that occur in life that drain our energy. In putting up with tolerations, we are distracted from more important things. … Continue reading
Clean it up, completely
Everyone has incomplete projects. Perhaps it is sorting the recycling from last year. Cleaning the storage area. Fixing the bicycle. Submitting the expense report. The question is: is there a reason it is incomplete, (you have a plan with an … Continue reading
