That’s the intention here. To raise the bar.
Raise it on our own truths.
Our own lives.
Ourselves.
When the scales have been tipped, we dive in, leap forward and move towards what’s true, beckoning and asking to be seen.
Raising the bar in our life is a journey.
Sharing it fuels and lights the way.
Welcome to the Blog.
A disruption is a radical change in a process that causes something to not work in the normal way. It can be a business model, technology, a country or a person. No one or thing is immune from it. It sucks to be disrupted. When was the last time it happened to you?...
It all started a week before Thanksgiving of 2015. Jan’s mom, who’d been battling Parkinson's for over 30 years was hospitalized. She was there for a week. Before being discharged she said to Jan, “You have to let me go.” She made the decision to not use a feeding...
I'm interested in affecting deeper changes within myself. Which is what life is about. Here are two commandments I’ve learned to create a more meaningful life: 1. Thou Shalt Make It Physical. Five years ago I participated in my first White Stone Ceremony at the church...
When someone is talking angrily to me, I don’t really hear what’s being said as I’m focused on how they’re saying it. Any of us can get caught up in “an emotion spin cycle.” What could’ve been a frustration or a simple misunderstanding takes on a disproportionate...
And all shall abide by these three fiduciary duties: full and frank disclosure, duty of care and loyalty; but the greatest of these is loyalty. While it doesn’t have the ring of one of the most often quoted lines in the bible: "And now abides faith, hope, love, these...
Have you ever been lied to? I have. It makes me angry and sad. Lies destabilize what they touch and can wreak havoc in a relationship. I discovered that I was being lied to earlier this year. In fact, it had been going on for so long it was hard to believe I hadn’t...
When I decided to go to law school it wasn’t because I had a burning desire to be a lawyer, right wrongs, or fight for the little guy. I’d graduated from college with a history degree, then moved to San Diego to try and figure life out at the ripe old age of 24. After...
Have you ever hesitated telling someone what you do for a living? I have. And for longer than I care to admit. In fact, for a number of years I wouldn’t ask the simple question “What do you do for a living?”, because it meant the other person would reciprocate with a...
The term “hermetically sealed” finds its origins in the Greek God Hermes. He was known for sealing boxes that were impossible to open and hiding them so they could not be seen. While hermitically sealed is the ideal state of a vacuum seal. it's not an ideal state...
Have you ever looked closely at a world map with time zones? It's not laid out as uniformly as one might expect. Many lines more closely resemble gerrymandering than easy to follow boundaries. So what does time zones have to do with time travel? Wherever you are in...
Are you ready to integrate your work life and your personal life to make the best overall life possible for you?
Wendy Votroubek,
LegalNursePDX.com
It was early afternoon on a Wednesday in 2004. I was at the office talking with my wife on the phone about how her day was going, when seemingly for no reason, she said “Are you on your computer?” “No, I’m not on my computer,” I replied. “I can tell that you’re not...
Law school was the most intense two years of my life. (I was in an accelerated two-year program.) The anxiety it caused was overwhelming on a near-daily basis. The idea of going it alone day after day was more than I wanted to endure. While I spent more hours than I...
Four months ago I was at a fundraising event and I’d just met a gentleman when he asked me a question that I generally steer clear of discussing: “What do you do for a living?” I answered (with hesitation) “I’m a lawyer.” “What type of law do you do?” he asked. “I’m...