Do you have some NONSENSE in your life? I know that I have struggled with this in the past! It seems that all of us really have to fight to keep what matters most in our lives and DESTROY the nonsense that will creep in if we let it. And what is nonsense? Anything that detracts from your progress, success and most importantly your happiness. And while that sounds really simple to see and root out of your life...it isn't. In my coaching career I have found that teens and stude

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In Utah, winters are beautiful with clear icicles that glisten in the morning sun, and crisp blue skies that shake white flakes from the clouds. The trees are black with white canopies and the mountains jut up like great white blades. It’s cold and the air is crisp. You love it until the end of the holidays and then you want the sun back (or at least I do). One of my favorite mentors of all time, Jim Rohn, wrote a book called “Seasons of Life.” In his book, Rohn explained tha

This week I shared a video on The Law of Attraction. If you know little about the Law of Attraction or have vaguely heard of it, it can sound a little strange. That’s why in this post I wanted to share with you what the Law of Attraction even is and more importantly how it will radically change your life. The Law of Attraction is actually a simply principle. It’s the idea that what you continually think about, do, and want will manifest itself into your life. This can be as

I don’t know if it’s just the time of year or if it’s just the way life goes, but we all are so busy! The world keeps on turning and we are expected to do the same. With life being so busy it’s easy to get off track with our goals. Sometimes the last thing on our mind is our goal for that week, month, or even that year. To help keep you on track and moving towards your goals, here are 5 questions that you should be asking yourself regularly. If you can keep these questions in

With Thanksgiving right around the corner, gratitude is on the mind. Every Thanksgiving we are surrounded by those we love most as we sit around large tables full of good food. It is easy to see why we have so much to be grateful for. It is also easy to be grateful on Thanksgiving because the whole world is participating. It is a social media uproar with #grateful. However, I believe that gratitude is not the easy choice. Gratitude is a difficult decision and it is never seco

When it comes to handling stress we all are so different. Not all stress is bad, but more often than not it is a nuisance in our lives. Dealing with stress, managing our worries, and working our concerns is fundamental to achieving your goals. Here are some tried and true tips to dealing with stress in your life: Identify the Stressor Stress can come in many forms in our lives. It can be good stress like wanting to do really well on assignments, or push ourselves to the next

I was sitting next to one of my best friends in the whole world (who happens to be 3X my age and oh so wise) when she asked how my life was going. I was honest with her when I explained that while I was good, things weren’t exactly how I wanted them right then. I wasn’t sure about some future decisions, and my birthday was coming up which marked another year that I felt I wasn’t where I thought I would be at my age. I told her that while life really was good, the perfect plan

My to-do list can touch the floor if I wanted it to. I can think of 10 things off of the top of my head that I really should get done today. I bet you can too. Being busy isn’t hard. We are all usually busier than we would like to be. But is being busy the way we are supposed to live our lives? Most of the time we associate being busy with being ambitious, driven, and goal-oriented. It can also be associated with being rude, rushed, short, or overwhelmed. What makes the diffe

Truth be told, I haven’t lived life on my own terms for a long time. Did I know this about myself? No way. I thought that every decision I made was because I was living life on my own terms. Only until the last year, when I really have thrown my reservations to the wind and have started on a journey to chase dreams, have I come to learn that life truly is better when you live true to who you are. What do I mean by this? Here is a perfect example that happened to me last weeke

However you chose to dress, style your hair, or do your makeup (or not)—it all says something about you. While we all know that we should never judge a person by the way they look, the reality is that we do. The late Jim Rohn, a renowned motivational speaker and my personal hero once said, “God looks on the inside and people look on the outside.” With this in mind understand that when people ask me if it really matters if they look nice, dress well, or do their hair the answe

Is it a universal law that someone always has to be better than you at something? It sure can seem like that. We all get intimidated. We want to be more like (and secretly hate) the girl that is more talented, is smarter, cooks better, has a boyfriend, got straight A’s, has a high up job, makes more money, or even is just better looking. But if we let intimidation stop us from doing our best and reaching for our goals then we don’t have much to go for. Intimidation can stop u

Control—we all want it. We want control over our lives, our bank account, other people, circumstances, and our hardships. We feel that if we have enough control that our lives can be free of all worries, trials, change, and unpleasant surprises. But it’s this very quest for control that can make us lose all sense of our control. So what do we do? We focus on the only control we can ever fully claim—control over ourselves. My whole life I have felt like I was in a power strugg

There is the best place that all of us dream of visiting. It is nice year-round, yet hardly anyone seems to visit. That place is called “someday” and though we plan to arrive there one day, if we aren’t careful we will drive right on pass or miss it all together. We think, I’ll be an adult someday. Someday I will graduate college. I will someday have what I really want in life. “Someday” can elude you despite your best intentions and you turn a year older. It’s not a bad thin