by dmackinnon | Sep 26, 2012 | Healing Choices, Limiting Beliefs
For the past few months, I’ve been doing a little experiment on my life, just to see what happens. The experiment involves noticing one thing whenever I consider doing something: I notice if it feels good, or if it feels bad. If it feels good, I commit to it, agree to...
by dmackinnon | Sep 19, 2012 | Communication, Healing Choices
Danielle LaPorte recently asked a “Burning Question:” What would you be more of if you let go of the past? She makes the point that “identifying the source of your crap is only half the journey. The other half is composting it into something radically new.” I love...
by dmackinnon | Jul 18, 2012 | Healing Choices, Limiting Beliefs
A couple of weeks ago I was working on a “landing page” on my website for a retreat I am hosting in the fall. It is very close to my heart and I had been working on the page days—adding content, removing content, stopping and starting. Finally, after about two weeks,...
by dmackinnon | Jun 27, 2012 | Healing Choices, Thought Work
This past month I decided to give up sugar. I have never been much of a sweets lover—until I had my son. Then I went on a KitKat kick. No other candy interested me, but I ate a few of those snack-sized KitKats every day. Then, one day, Peppermint Patties became my new...
by dmackinnon | Jun 20, 2012 | Healing Choices, Limiting Beliefs
I think of myself as a rule-follower, but there is one rule that I find myself breaking more and more as time goes by. The rule I break most often is the unspoken rule that says we have to “be nice.” This usually means, “keep quiet and don’t rock the boat.” For...
