KIMBERLY PAIGE

My first experience with intention setting kind of rocked my world. It was maybe 2004 (?) and I was reading Martha Beck’s “Finding Your North Star”. One of the exercises in the book asks that you set 3 *WILDLY IMPROBABLE GOALS* (a.k.a. WIGs). So, I played along... I set 3 goals that seemed like a pretty big stretch to me. I don’t remember what the first 2 were (but I would not be the least bit surprised if I’ve achieved them because intention setting is *that* powerful), b

I am a recovering sorry-sayer… For much of my life I have over-used the phrase “I’m sorry”. I’ve been sorry for the traffic, the weather, the meal you ordered at a restaurant, the haircut you got that went awry, whatever; if you weren’t happy with the world I was very, very sorry. When I was a kid, my mom used to threaten to charge me a nickel (what, a whole nickel?) every time I said “I’m sorry” for something that was not my fault or not within my control. Obviously, there

Today is my 48 ½ birthday…woo hoo. Why don’t more people celebrate half-birthdays? 48 ½ is considered by a lot of people to be, well, *over the hill*, *past prime*, *no spring chicken*, etc. I remember sitting in class when I was 15 and thinking about the year 2000. I knew that I would be turning 32 that year which sounded incredibly old. I envisioned myself “settled” with a job, a husband, and 3 or 4 kids having achieved what I wanted in life. Nothing left to do, I guess

Early on in my coaching career, I had a client who—like many of us—felt that she knew what to do to get herself fit and healthy, but could not seem to get herself to commit to actually doing these things. Cara* and I talked a lot about her WHY. Why did she want to get herself fit and healthy? Tapping into our why is what gives us the motivation to take action. Cara had some sort of generic responses like “I want to be healthier” and “I want to be able to keep up with my kids