Posts by Diane Sieg
Use This Resilience Skill When Things Don’t Go as Planned…
After a busy summer of travel with speaking and weddings, I was really looking forward to a writing retreat in San Diego at a beautiful resort. My partner was attending Sales Mastery and I thought it would be the perfect opportunity for me to get some uninterrupted writing time. I determined our arrival day would…
Keep Reading...What don’t you have time for?
Pura Vida is a beautiful health club I am fortunate enough to teach yoga at in North Denver. I was giving a good friend, who was my guest for the day a tour when we had this conversation: Her: What a state-of-the-art weight room, how often do you work out? Me:Â Oh, I don’t have…
Keep Reading...Finding Your Tribe
Last weekend we hosted our post-Bali Retreat party 3 months after our trip. It was great to catch up with everyone and hear about their past adventures and future ones. Everyone looked fabulous, healthy, and happy, as you can see for yourself! The intrigue of a yoga retreat in Bali initially brought us all together…
Keep Reading...What Are You Willing to Do to Feel the Way You Want to Feel?
When I was showing our 5 year old granddaughter how to operate the shower after swimming, she asked very seriously, Should I wash all the body parts? I answered, Yes, all the body parts smiling inside and thinking about the parts of our bodies and lives we often don’t take care of, in other words,…
Keep Reading...Your Resilient Summer
Eighteen Summers: It’s All We Get, discusses how many summers we get with our kids before they grow up got me thinking, how many summers we all have left, especially as we know them now. Whether it’s our kids leaving, health declining, or interests wavering, summers, like everything else in life all change and end.…
Keep Reading...Lessons from Bali
[su_spacer] Bali is a magical place filled with ritual, beauty, and challenge. The rice fields are green lush works of art, the temples are intricately designed and beautifully decorated and the beaches are largely undeveloped and uninhabited. In contrast, as a third-world country, the water is not drinkable, the sanitation standards are relaxed and most…
Keep Reading...7 Acts of Loving-Kindness
Compassion is practicing loving-kindness toward ourselves and others. It is contagious because when we treat ourselves and others kindly, we can be unexpectedly showered with loving-kindness as well. Here are some simple acts of loving-kindness I was fortunate enough to receive during a busy speaking schedule: My client arranged for a late check-out of my…
Keep Reading...5 Ways to Sleep Your Way to Resilience
The last month has been a great reminder of just how precious our good health is, after losing our sister-in-law when she collapsed at a graduation party, a yoga student canceling her Bali trip with us for congestive heart failure, and a dear friend starting chemotherapy for a blood dyscrasia. We really don’t have anything…
Keep Reading...Fall in Love Again
As human beings, we can all become bored and burned out with our workouts, partners, or job positions. To be resilient, to maintain a positive attitude and healthy wellbeing, we need to remember the big WHY of what we do. In other words, we need to fall in love again. Remembering the big WHY gives…
Keep Reading...What’s the Word for Your New Year?
By now, we have all been bombarded with advice about how to be successful with our resolutions and join the meager 8% who actually achieve them. Too often, the rest of us make our resolutions too complicated, unrealistic, and overwhelming, based on things we think we should do, instead of things we want to do.…
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