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Manifesting

Intentional Manifesting: Total Surrender Is the Power Move

It can be painful not to have what you want or to experience what you don’t want. But are these failures of manifesting really failures? What if, deep down, you like and want all of it – not just the “good” stuff – because what you want and like more…

Allison EvansOctober 25, 2024

Getting Things Done Stop Suffering, Start Living

Woman Sitting, Fingers Hovering Above a Keyboard

I was on retreat last week at The School for The Work. The Work is one of my favorite practices for finding clarity and freedom in daily life. The Work is a meditation. It doesn’t look like a meditation because it’s four questions, and questions look like cognitive tasks. But…

Allison EvansNovember 14, 2023

Getting Things Done

One Hundred Years

This thing you’re struggling to do, what if you knew you had one hundred years to do it? I came across this idea in Zen Mind, Zen Horse: The Science and Spirituality of Working with Horses, by Allan J. Hamilton, M.D. A rancher had a horse that got spooked by…

Allison EvansOctober 30, 2023

Love & Relationships Potpourri

The Heroines Retreat

My coaching group, Be the Heroine, just had its first in-person retreat. We met for a long weekend in beautiful Ojai, California. It had been a cold, wet winter there, but spring sprang on the day of our arrival. The rain stopped, the sun warmed, and the hillsides from Los Angeles…

Allison EvansApril 11, 2023

Getting Things Done

To Increase Productivity, Get to the Root of Procrastination

Another stumbling block to productivity is procrastination. From the Latin for “belonging to tomorrow,” procrastination is delaying doing what you intended to do. Why do we do it? It is a maddening behavior – the immediate relief feels great but is short-lived. Ultimately, procrastination corrodes your faith in yourself. The…

Allison EvansMarch 30, 2022

Stop Suffering, Start Living

“What Can I Do?”

That is the persistent question of Dorothea Brooke, the heroine of Middlemarch, by George Eliot. As I have read headlines and articles about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I have found myself asking it, too, and it has led me to wonder, “What would Dorothea do?” Dorothea is my favorite literary…

Allison EvansMarch 18, 2022

Getting Things Done

Do You Want to Be More Consistent?

It’s January, the time of year for resolutions. One of mine that is renewed annually is to show up consistently on social media to build my brand. Ugh. Just writing “build my brand” makes me wince. Admitting to using social media transactionally feels like a confession of bad faith. Social…

Allison EvansJanuary 28, 2022

Love & Relationships

The Right Way to Fight with Your Spouse

Every judgment you have about your partner is an opportunity either to erect a barrier between you or to grow more intimate.

Allison EvansNovember 20, 2015

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