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By Tama J. KievesFeb 15, 20101 topic

Your Alternative Career Search: Relax, Heal, and Play

A âpracticalâ career search wonât lead to an inspired outcome. I want you to have an inspired outcome. Thatâs because you have a calling inside you as bright as ten thousand shooting stars. You are not empty or misaligned or born in the wrong time. Itâs not like the world doesnât need exactly what you have to give us, and desperately, I might add. But you are searching with the wrong tools. You are looking for butterflies with a shovel and a pick axe. You probably

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesNov 9, 20091 topic

Your Divine Assignment: Doing the Work You Love

(this piece originally appeared in the Omega Institute's online publication) When I had my career melt-down and fled the life of being an elite-law-firm-corporate-lawyer, (an honors graduate of Harvard Law School) I thought I was changing careers. I had no idea I was changing my definition of the Divine. I was leaving behind the Big Removed Guy in the sky, more concerned with the next life than the wonder of this one. In doing the work I love, I discovered a fresh Astonishing

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesNov 9, 20091 topic

Life Can Be Fantastic: Your Joy is Your Power

I am committed to allowing myself to receive more freaking goodness than I can imagine. To start with, I am going to know that, independent of anyone else's predictions or convictions, my life can be fantastic. I am going to stop calling negativity and limitation "realism." I'm going to just start calling them negativity and limitation. We have all bought into the superstition that goodness is a soap bubble about to burst. But I challenge you to think of sadness and strain as

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesAug 17, 20091 topic

Floundering Towards Grace: Making Big Moves with Small Steps

I think one of the things that has made me successful in life is Iâm willing to do things that are not flattering. I have been willing to not have it âall together,â and to still believe I stood on a path that promised more security than any other road in the world. I left a fancy legal career and waited tables, yes, touched food, so I could explore my life and my writing. I counted my dimes and quarters. I lived in a tiny hat-sized apartment. I lived a life that did no

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By Tama J. KievesAug 2, 20091 topic

Perfect Timing: All the Way to Heaven is Heaven

Recently a client of mine was sick of "having faith" while it seemed she slogged towards her dream in thick molasses. "I just want to get there now," she screeched, scoffing at all her previous progress. I felt sad. This wasnât the combustible kind of frustration that would help her take constructive bold action. Rather it seemed like she was stomping on all the flowers in the garden, breaking the china in her house, ripping up poems and short stories, and screaming about t

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By Tama J. KievesAug 2, 20091 topic

Diary of a Creative Mind

Week One:rnGet a creative idea and the slightest bit of encouragement and feel on top of the world, burning, singing, dancing, and feeling as though it all makes sense now and everything will come together. You are magnificent. You will be rich. Life is so beautiful. You will never be stopped. How could you have ever doubted? Week Two:rnGet a cancellation from a client or a form letter back from your proposal, query, or inquiry and feel the world is harsh, cruel, sick, and sc

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesJul 15, 20091 topic

Go Green: Turning Your Jealousy into Strength

The other day I read about an acquaintance, another author, I know who was featured in The New York Times. As I came upon the story, try as I might to fill my mind with the bird songs and daisies of good will, I felt sandpaper scrape my soul. Immediately, her shiny success became my failure. Jealousy stung me like tear gas, laced with longing and sadness. Yes, of course, Iâd much prefer you think Iâm someone who levitates on my good desires for everyone else. And, really,

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By Tama J. KievesJul 15, 20091 topic

Stop Comparing Yourself: Dive into Your Own Sweet Life!

Some years ago, I sat at this wedding and met a younger woman who had gone to two Ivy League schools and had a masters and a doctorate and had run marathons and traveled in countries like Cambodia and Vietnam. Not only that, but she was strikingly pretty, could belt out Hip Hop at the karaoke bar, had a disarming sense of humor and a sweet husband with buckets of money. Clearly, sheâd gotten quite the package deal from the Big Cosmic Travel Agent in the sky. The encounter m

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By Tama J. KievesJun 29, 20091 topic

Allowing Life to Change You: Choosing Trust instead of Control

I saw a coaching client recently who wanted to get right down to business and plan out her new, bold life. She wasnât sure what that life was, but she wanted to map it out, pin it down, and make it happen. She looked at me with exhausted eyes and silently begged me for light. I wanted to tell her, âPut down your organizer and step into chaos.â But she may have smacked me with that eight pound black leather day timer, so I chose another way to suggest that she let go of

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By Tama J. KievesJun 29, 20091 topic

Your Secret Self: Awakening the Powers of the Inspired Self

You have no idea how strangely magical you are. Most of us could never imagine the fire and promise we hold. We live in a culture that tells us to be ârealistic.â That means dampen our enthusiasms and compromise our vision. We are encouraged to bow to the known world, and shun our unknown powers. But thatâs not why weâre here. Weâre here to listen to our inspired hearts, spread our full peacock feathers, and awaken the invincible love inside us. Weâre here to disc

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By Tama J. KievesMay 11, 20091 topic

Mothering Ourselves: Nurturing Yourself, Your Dreams and the World

I have had to learn how to mother myself in this lifetime. I love my mother, more so these days than ever before, but for many years I felt like I got the short end of the umbilical cord. Like many of us, I didnât get the movie mother in this lifetime, the tireless cheerleader, the fierce cub-protector, or the one who listened deeply to all my secret places and saw colors in me, I had yet to see. That mother was on back order when I was placing my cosmic selection. Instead,

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesApr 19, 20091 topic

Getting Answers: You Canât Figure it Out. You Can Only Let it Out.

As a coach, Iâm in the business of helping people get answers to their most pressing decisions in life. Now, itâs not uncommon for a client to come or call and say, âI like gardening, playing the cymbals, hiking in the backcountry, helping people, and learning about color theory, healing energy techniques, and Russian Poetry. So how do I put that all together?â Then they pause and wait for their magic answer. They will be pausing a long time, I assure you.nnI will tel

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesMar 30, 20091 topic

In Celebration of Foolishness: Every Hero Begins as Fool

In celebration of April Foolâs Day and of all Springâs new beginnings, I wanted to encourage you to be a little bit more âfoolishâ in your life. There is power in daring to be different. nnGreat advances have never come from the conventionally minded among us. Itâs always comes from us idiots who believe in love and freedom and goodness and peace. The fools of today are the visionaries of tomorrow. Those crazy fools of the past gave us electricity, medicine, automob

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By Tama J. KievesMar 14, 20091 topic

Trust the Miracle of Change

Surrender to the tidal wave. This fierce love is here to assist you in beginning a new, true, invincible life. If youâre feeling unsettled by the unknown and assaulted by change, remember, itâs a strength to be undoing that which no longer works. This is progress, not mayhem.nnThe artist Pablo Picasso wrote, âEvery act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.â And exquisite Nietzsche said, âYou must become a chaos before giving birth to a shining star.â

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesFeb 21, 20091 topic

The Opportunity of Pain

Recently I took a yoga class while in New York City. I claimed a space in the packed studio and drank in the peace of the altar, appointed with images of smiling gurus and blue Krishnas. The subway rumbled beneath us. The teacher, a low-keyed young man in a faded tee shirt, walked casually among us. Just minutes later he would rock my world. nnHe had us stretching, sweating, and breathing deeply immediately. Then at one point he had us doing squats, yes squats, like army boot

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesDec 14, 20081 topic

The Ultimate Security: Doing What You Love

Here is my dearest hope for our changing times. I hope more of us will turn our eyes away from the crumbling wreckage of conditions we knew, and turn our eyes toward what is now available. Alfred Lord Tennyson said, “The shell must break before the bird can fly.”nnMany of us put our dreams on hold to take care of the “more important” matters of earning a living. Many got comfortable in the postponement fantasy of “retirement.” Someday, in u

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesNov 2, 20081 topic

Finding Your Next Step in the Midst of Fear, Pain, or Chaos

Sometimes life feels like a tornado touched down on an ordinary day and left broken shards of everything you knew. Change is often sudden and all-encompassing. When a major shift comes into your life, you may feel vulnerable and frightened. But keep this in mind. When a lobster grows, it sheds it shell. It’s pink and raw in the in-between times But it’s about to grow into a stronger and greater expression of itself. So are you. nnWhen you’re frightened your

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesNov 2, 20081 topic

An Invitation To The Dance

The following is a book excerpt from THIS TIME I DANCE! Creating the Work You Love (How One Harvard Lawyer Left It All to Have It All!) by Tama J. Kieves (www.ThisTimeIDance.com) reprinted by permission of the author.n nI invite you to this dance. We live in times that cry out for love and radical resourcefulness. We live in times that beg for new voices of bold grace. Safe choices have led us into unsafe times. Hunger. Pollution. Crime. And barren spirits. We believed we nee

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesOct 3, 20081 topic

Never Alone Or Unanswered: Walking With Infinite Love

The more I cultivate a relationship with my own inner voice, the more I step into a precious, responsive life of abundantly answered prayer. These days, I often feel as though I’m walking with an Unseen Friend, a playful, quirky, Mojo-powered force that infuses my life with meaning and tenderness. I’d like to share a recent example with you… nnThis past summer I went home to New York and spent some time with my mother who just turned 80. My mother weighs no

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By Tama J. KievesSep 7, 20081 topic

Go Green: Turning Your Jealousy into Strength

The other day I read about an acquaintance, another author, I know who was featured in The New York Times. As I came upon the story, try as I might to fill my mind with the bird songs and daisies of good will, I felt sandpaper scrape my soul. Immediately, her shiny success became my failure. nnJealousy stung me like tear gas, laced with longing and sadness. Yes, of course, I’d much prefer you think I’m someone who levitates on my good desires for everyone else. An

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesJul 29, 20081 topic

If The Future Scares You, The Present Moment Can Heal You

Money has been on people’s minds these days. The media volleys the word “recession” around. It’s like a toddler learning to say a first word and saying it again and again. Personally, I don’t believe that staying obsessed about a future fear, is staying “informed.” Actually, I’d call it mental poisoning. You often create what you focus most upon. But even more importantly, fear distracts us from our present moment and the presen

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesJun 25, 20081 topic

The Secret To Living Your True Life: Stop Judging Yourself

Do you want to discover your true lifeâs purpose? More ease? Maybe even more money? I have one simple answer, so simple youâll push it away thinking that it could never work. Here it is:nnStop judging yourself. Thatâs it. End of story.nnOh, you have questions? Of course, just like me.nnWhen you stop judging yourself, you can listen to inspiration. You can hear the voice of love, choice, wisdom and true direction. Or you can listen to self-judgment, a voice of attack, li

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesJun 4, 20081 topic

Discover Diamonds In The Mud: Clarity, Creativity, or Genius

Hereâs a little secret. You canât force clarity, creativity, or genius.nnYes, itâs maddening when you donât know what you want--and no one else knows--because itâs your life.nnYears ago, I felt very confused about a relationship issue. I journaled about it, cried about it, meditated about it, and clamored for certainty. And all I ever got when I asked my inner guidance was âyouâll know when you know.â Now thatâs the kind of guidance that makes you want to sh

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesApr 12, 20081 topic

Launching Your Work Into the World: Just Start Dancing And The Band Will Find You

I donât know a better way to march our dreams into the world other than to just march our dreams into the world. You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie. I think the red dress is in order. The universe has invited us all to thrive in our lives and no one and nothing is ever holding us back. nnI know so many creative soul friends who cloister their abilities like pe

Primary topic: Motivation

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By SelfGrowth ContributorMar 28, 20081 topic

Donât Ache To Be Great: Care Enough About Your Gifts To Get There

There is a place where ideals can crush you instead of inspire you. Itâs like you stop looking at the North Star as a guide and you start looking at it as a benchmark of your own light instead. Comparing your business potential or art to those who have already established themselves is cruel and pointless. Nobody starts out as a gold medalist. Nobody begins at the Grammys... nn Perhaps you, too, suffer from this âinstant masterâ syndrome, some persistent hallucination t

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By SelfGrowth ContributorMar 28, 20081 topic

Launching Your Career Into The World: Just Start Dancing And The Band Will Find You

I donât know a better way to march our dreams into the world other than to just march our dreams into the world. You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie. I think the red dress is in order. The universe has invited us all to thrive in our lives and no one and nothing is ever holding us back. nnI know so many creative soul friends who cloister their abilities like pe

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Tama J. KievesMar 22, 20081 topic

Scared Or Sacred? Our Response To Transition Times

These days, many of us are in the bog-swamp-fog of transition. Transition is that Jello-like place on the way to a new identityâa place that defies certainty in the meantime. Maybe we have chosen to leave something behind. Maybe weâve been heaved off a crumbling ledge--with or without a severance package. Either way newness and âlack of controlâ have a way of sweeping in and taking our breath away, changing the course of our days, and leaving us hesitating before the

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesFeb 13, 20081 topic

Self-Love: The Practice That Allows Your Best Life To Unfold

As we approach âValentine's Day season,â I wanted to send a Valentine's Day card to each and every one of you. And then I decided, better yet, I want you to send a Valentine's Day card to yourself. Itâs appropriate you know. Just think of all the messages we hear on Valentineâs Day: âI couldnât live without you.â âYou make my life complete.â âI am so glad I found you.â Too many of us go through this life thinking that the only love thatâs real is the l

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By Tama J. KievesFeb 11, 20081 topic

Cultivating Loverâs Eyesâ¦

Here comes Valentineâs Day, filled with roses, chocolates and the praise of romantic relationship. I donât know about you, but I want to be in a romantic relationship with every bit of my life. I want to kiss the nape of its neck and write poetry about its most mundane moments. I want to look at the circumstances of my life with loverâs eyes-- and behold even the most familiar detail as this startling gift that Iâve been given. n nSeeing beauty gives us special powers

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By Tama J. KievesFeb 5, 20081 topic

The Only Road to Everything You Want

We commit to real change, and then we resist it. This cosmic dance has been going on forever in every ballroom since the beginning of time... nnI’ve committed to write more this year. It’s what I want. Now that I’ve said it, I know I will drag into my writing room, and it will feel as though I have to hoist a dead body out of the way, just to sit down and type out a sentence. I’ll want to wash my hands, and then research how soap got invented, and then

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By SelfGrowth ContributorJan 24, 20081 topic

Nothing Stops A Whole Heart When Working In A Career You Love

One sparrow-boned, average mother in a cotton dress thrusts up a Pontiac Grand Am to rescue a crushed and wailing child. She doesn't think about it. She does not analyze how a woman of one hundred and ten pounds who normally can't lift more than two bags of canned groceries can hoist up a ton of Detroit-fired steel. She doesn't think about her own injuries, the heat and fumes, the angle of the steaming vehicle or the medical expenses to come later. Instead, love fills her wit

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Tama J. KievesJan 16, 20081 topic

A New Practice For A New Year

I ended 2007 feeling a little filmy, more than a little occupied, and slightly annoyed with the Universe, if Iâm being really honest. I felt far away from the presence of a Caring Intelligence, like staring into the night sky, knowing the moon is somewhere, but feeling thin with shadows. nnI was dismayed: After all the personal work Iâve done, books Iâve read, classes Iâve taught and attended, how could I feel so removed? I was frustrated that the Divine Presence wasn

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By Tama J. KievesDec 2, 20071 topic

Your Lifeâs Purpose: You Donât Get to Pick Your True Nature; You Get the Choice to Honor It or Ignore It

I recently worked with a middle aged woman, an attorney in a large law firm. She felt panicked about her lifeâs direction. She felt stuck, hazy, and anguished. âI want to know my lifeâs purpose,â she said. I always get nervous when people want to know their âlifeâs purpose.â I feel like Moses handing out parchment scrolls. Purpose sounds so grand and epic that almost anything sounds too ratty or ordinary to be right.nnWe talked for a while and she admitted, with

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesOct 28, 20071 topic

Celebrate The Middle Of Things: Middle Moments Are Our Graduate School And Launch Pad

We live in a society where only âbig successâ is acknowledged. We donât care about the small steps. We donât hear about the stumbles. Yet it takes outrageous courage to be in the middle of your journey. The middle is where itâs at, baby. nnMaybe youâre growing a new business, writing the book of your dreams, or healing from a necessary divorce. These are the times when alligators are nipping at your raw feet, the rain keeps beating down, the moon is fading, your m

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesOct 28, 20071 topic

The Tremendous Gift Of Fear: Holding Onto the Past Will Block Your Potential

Are you resisting fear in your life? So many of us want to scuttle into safety and security. But fear is the gateway to the sublime. Weâre supposed to be scared âout of our minds.â Thatâs the point. Thatâs when we tap into another intelligence, a non-linear knowing. Best-selling author Sharon Salzberg, tells us that in some forms of Buddhism, crisis is called âthe proximate cause of faith.â Fear is here to lead us straight into the arms of buoyancy and grace. nn

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesSep 4, 20071 topic

The Tremendous Gift of Fear: Your True Self and Real Identity is Eternal, Enduring, and Regenerative

Are you resisting fear in your life? So many of us want to scuttle into safety and security. But fear is the gateway to the sublime. We're supposed to be scared "out of our minds." That's the point. That's when we tap into another intelligence, a non-linear knowing. Best-selling author Sharon Salzberg, tells us that in some forms of Buddhism, crisis is called "the proximate cause of faith." Fear is here to lead us straight into the arms of buoyancy and grace.nnYears ago, teac

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesAug 31, 20071 topic

3 Secrets to Honoring Your Wondrous Devotion: Seizing Time for Your Creative Self

This summer I am pale and I love it. I donât have the ruddy tan of the social. I havenât gone to pool parties and I havenât kayaked down any rivers. Instead, Iâve stared at a computer screen, but I am not talking about sitting in some cubicle, doing other peopleâs work. I am talking about doing my work, Work with a gorgeous capital W. I am pale with devotion. I have stayed true to my writing this summer. nnBeing creative is often a lonely endowment. We are given the

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesAug 1, 20071 topic

Forget your âlife's purposeâ and live your life purposefully

Sam called me recently for a coaching session to help him find his âlifeâs purpose.â According to him, heâd taken classes, attended retreats, listened to tapes, talked to counselors, read books, treatises, and tea leaves, channeled and chanted, did his numerology and astrology, researched, and still, like a sly red fox, his âlifeâs purposeâ had swished its tail and escaped him. âIâm almost 50 and I still donât know what I want to do with my life,â he spa

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesJul 29, 20071 topic

Discovering Your Own Vibrant Guidance: Only the Lost Will Ask for Help

If you want to live a life that celebrates your gifts and fits you like silkâ¦you might first have to lurch into brick walls or down blind alleys. Poet Galway Kinnell says, âAnd the first step, shall be to lose the way.â When I share this at workshops, participants gaze at their shoes. They donât want to lose the way. They want to find their way. And they want to find their way, their wayâand by five oâclock Eastern Standard Time. But thatâs the slippery thing ab

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesJul 2, 20071 topic

Creative Inspiration: Avail Yourself of the Most Untapped and Unsung Resource on the Planet

The following is a book excerpt from THIS TIME I DANCE! Creating the Work You Love (How One Harvard Lawyer Left It All to Have It All!) by Tama J. Kieves (www.ThisTimeIDance.com) reprinted by permission of the author.nn nI invite you to this dance. We live in times that cry out for love and radical resourcefulness. We live in times that beg for new voices of bold grace. Safe choices have led us into unsafe times. Hunger. Pollution. Crime. And barren spirits. We believed we ne

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesJul 2, 20071 topic

Three Steps to Overcoming Self-Attacking Beliefs: An Authentic Life is Not a Linear Process

Recently a client of mine was sick of "having faith" while it seemed she slogged towards her dream in thick molasses. "I just want to get there now," she screeched, scoffing at all her previous progress. I felt sad. This wasnât the combustible kind of frustration that would help her take constructive bold action. Rather it seemed like she was stomping on all the flowers in the garden, breaking the china in her house, ripping up poems and short stories, and screaming about t

Primary topic: Motivation

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By Tama J. KievesJun 10, 20071 topic

Life in Transition: Trusting the Timing of Your Dreams

The other day an acquaintance remarked how great my life was now that I had published my book THIS TIME I DANCE! Creating the Work You Love and "made it." I could tell by the fame-drunk look in her brown eyes that she saw me as a weekly guest on Oprah, and as signing "made-for-t.v." movie deals about my life. I didn't tell her about the night I gave a presentation to a group of just 7 people. Or that I am still learning how to move my message into the world and sometimes feel

Primary topic: General Self Help

General Self Help

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By Tama J. KievesMay 26, 20071 topic

Clarity, Creativity, or Genius: Finding your Diamonds in the Mud

Hereâs a little secret. You canât force clarity, creativity, or genius.nnYes, itâs maddening when you donât know what you want--and no one else knows--because itâs your life.nnYears ago, I felt very confused about a relationship issue. I journaled about it, cried about it, meditated about it, and clamored for certainty. And all I ever got when I asked my inner guidance was âyouâll know when you know.â Now thatâs the kind of guidance that makes you want to sh

Primary topic: Empowerment

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By Tama J. KievesMay 10, 20071 topic

Visionaries: Fools of Today; Heroes of Tomorrow

There is power in daring to be different.nnGreat advances have never come from the conventionally minded among us. It's always comes from us idiots who believe in love and freedom and goodness and peace. The fools of today are the visionaries of tomorrow. Those crazy fools of the past gave us electricity, medicine, automobiles, a few trips to the moon and back, not to mention hair dye and microwave dinners. God bless them all. Can you imagine the Wright brothers thinking they

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Tama J. KievesMay 8, 20071 topic

Career Transition: You No Longer Have A Label, But You Do Have A Ticket

Excerpted from THIS TIME I DANCE! Creating the Work You Love (How One Harvard Lawyer Left It All to Have It All!) (Tarcher/Penguin) by Tama J. Kieves by permission of the author. nnWhen I first dropped out of my lawyer life, I sometimes walked downtown on weekdays like some wayward ghost haunting a former territory. Iâd stare at the office high-rises with fountains gushing in plazas and geometric murals in cool lobbies. Then Iâd gaze in the windows of trendy boutiques dan

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Tama J. KievesApr 15, 20071 topic

Daring to Live Your Calling is a Path of Showing Up Fitfully and Fabulously

I was talking to one of my coaching clients and she was talking about not being able to stay with a meditation practice, so she gave up meditating altogether. “I’m either gung ho all the way or I don’t show up at all,” she said in disgust. We were talking on an evening when she “hadn’t shown up at all.” She had washed dishes instead. You would have thought she had mutilated small children. And gauging the self-attack that followed, I

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By SelfGrowth ContributorApr 13, 20071 topic

Every Hero Begins as Fool

I wanted to encourage you to be a little bit more “foolish” in your life. There is power in daring to be different. nnGreat advances have never come from the conventionally minded among us. It’s always comes from us idiots who believe in love and freedom and goodness and peace. The fools of today are the visionaries of tomorrow. Those crazy fools of the past gave us electricity, medicine, automobiles, a few trips to the moon and back, not to mention hair dye

Primary topic: Motivational Products and Services

Motivational Products and Services

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By SelfGrowth ContributorApr 13, 20071 topic

I Never Fail When Dancing

When I first left my prestigious legal career to dare the writing life, part of me was terrified that I would fail. Of course I didn’t want to starve. But worse yet for my precious ego, I couldn’t bear looking stupid. I dreaded feeling like I’d chased a hint of a rainbow and slammed into the rusted barbed wire of reality. “She should have kept her day job,” crooned the gremlins in my mind.nn Today I know you can only thrive by doing something tha

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Tama J. KievesMar 25, 20071 topic

Change or Control: 3 Insights for Stepping Into Chaos and Unfolding the Life of Your Dreams

I saw a coaching client recently who wanted to get right down to business and plan out her new, bold life. She wasnât sure what that life was, but she wanted to map it out, pin it down, and make it happen. She looked at me with exhausted eyes and silently begged me for light. I wanted to tell her, âPut down your organizer and step into chaos.â But she may have smacked me with that eight pound black leather daytimer, so I chose another way to suggest that she let go of t

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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