Deborah Hayes

Life Change – 8 Ways To Discover If You’re Ready For One

There comes a point in life when we begin to feel different; not good different and not necessarily bad different - just different. The hard ‘stuff’ is over and now we are freer and wiser than ever before. It’s that precious time we waited for, worked tow... Read >

A Woman in Transition…From What to What?

Gail Sheehy wrote the book Passages several years ago about how the body goes through ‘passages’ every 7 seven years or so. As it matures it evolves from infant to child, teenager and young adult to adult, crone and so on. With each of these life transit... Read >

Positive Attitude and Taking Responsibility for Your Success and Happiness

When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously."--Shakti Gawain Isn't this so true? Think back and recall one of those days when the energy and good vibes w... Read >

Women, Change and Starting Over

Could you do it? Have you ever thought or fantasized about it? Tell the truth have you ever sat and imagined what your life would be like if you sold all your belongings and moved to a brand new life? Where would you go; to live near a beach, to the deser... Read >

Get Unstuck with the By + With + For Formula

I don't know if it's the summer doldrums or just more of the path to the midlife joy thing but lately I have been feeling like there is something more, something missing. It's like an itch that I can't seem to relieve and I'm not sure where exactly it is ... Read >

Motivation and Lessons in Inspiration from the Best Coach I Know

Every once in a while you run into someone who has mastered the art of living, someone who doesn't just move through life waiting for a certain time or place or person to make his or her time here a life of consequence, someone who doesn't just live on t... Read >

Want a Positive Attitude? You’ll Need to Change Your Habits

It's not enough to want change, you have to take risks. You have to be prepared and motivated enough to leave the comfort of what you know and move willingly into that very scary place… the unknown. Yikes! That sounds ominous doesn't it? It really is... Read >

Positive Attitude and Staying Fired Up

When I was young my mother used to repeat a familiar saying… "Birds of a feather all flock together." Generally she used this saying when she did not want me to date a certain person. Someone she felt was too old for me, or too wild, or too whatever! ... Read >

Risk – the Key Ingredient for a Midlife Woman’s Personal Growth

There is a great deal of talk and sound evidence that boomer women today have exciting new opportunities available to us as we approach the remaining chapters of our lives. Many of us whether by circumstance or design are coming to realize how precious th... Read >

Attitude Adjustment – The Secret Difference Between Success and Failure

Ever wonder why some people always appear to be genuinely cheerful and happy and others don't? Of course we all have our moments but when we meet these perpetually sunny individuals while we are experiencing a bit of a drought for those positive vibes the... Read >

Dreams... Do you have one?

One of the things that can be drummed out us as we age is our ability to dream. When we were younger they came so easily. Somewhere along the way this ability, those delicious ever changing desires, ambitions and dreams become so deeply buried we seem to ... Read >

Midlife Women- Finding the Path to Success and Joy

We all come to a point in our life when we sense that things haven't turned out quite like we expected. That moment in time when we look up and realize that many of the things we thought we would do or have or try or be "when the time was right" have not ... Read >

What Do Procrastination, Snow White and Perceived Obsolescence Have in Common?

OK. You've taken the time to examine your life as it is today and discovered the small hidden joy within; the want not should of what you really want to do! Exciting isn't it? But after following all the steps and making a plan you still find yoursel... Read >

Goals -learn The Important Difference Between Should And Want

"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential." E... Read >