Jodi Brichta-Coyne, Coach/Author/Speaker

   As a woman, mom, wife, friend, daughter, business-owner and someone juggling all the balls in the air with the endless to-do lists, the one thing that I use to think was "is everyone happy by my efforts?" You see, I am a recovering people-pleaser and was constantly looking for validation from others in return. When I would do something for someone else, I expected that they either: 1) be grateful or 2) do something for me in return down the road. It seemed the more I did, the more people expected from me. So, I kept doing and kept seeking their approval. I would do anything to feel validated, buy them things thinking they would be over the moon and appreciative. I would offer to do services such as watch their kids, or do errands or even offer and go visit them because I knew they wouldn't visit me and my family and I wanted them to like me. As the years went on and I had my own kids and to be honest, I was expecting others to just help me out. However, that wasn&

                                    This weekend I had the wonderful opportunity to attend an amazing 4-day seminar with my mentor, the huge, the almighty, Mr. TONY ROBBINS. During this amazing 4-day event, I had some incredible breakthroughs and even walked across hot coals (YES, PEOPLE HOT COALS!) without so much as a mark. This experience made me realize so much as I felt all the more wiser. One of the limiting beliefs that I was able to crush, was the thought that I didn't know enough. Even though I love to inspire other women that they ARE enough, I myself, was feeling less than. I have been studying everything I could get my hands on in my current field and just can't get enough. At one point during the seminar, Tony has us break out into pairs where we had to tell a partner (complete stranger) what are limiting beliefs were. I told (now my new friend) mine and she replied back with "my limiting belief is that I am not smart enough." "WOW" I tho

What happened? Where did all the kids go? You know, the ones who use to play outside and were curious about the world. The ones who used their imagination to dream of far away lands with dragons and knights in the woods of their own back yards? The ones yelling, playing kickball, laughing and smiling at each other.... where did they go? I think they  forgot.. forgot what it was like to stop for a moment...put down the phones... go outside... breathe in the fresh, crisp air and stare at the world with wonderment.  We (the 70's/80s kids) have forgotten.....WE have forgotten what it is like to just 'be' a kid. How can we expect our children to do the same when we ourselves, don't set the example. We are so stressed out, overworked, overburdened and overwhelmed that instead of turning everything off, sharing quality moments with our kids as we walk around and absorb the world, we give them things to tune out instead. Then we go ahead and label them as lazy, unmotiv