Karen southall watts- @askkaren coaching 

Did you know that the fitness business is counting on you, maybe not you personally, but the typical person, NOT going to the gym to...

Famous authors and small-town preachers have been telling us for years that listening to someone with total attention is a priceless...

Gratitude is good for us. Everyone from our grandparents to preachers, teachers, and personal coaches has drummed this into us. Yet,...

October was a very busy month for me. Sadly, not all of it was enjoyable. I moved to a new apartment, and my close friends can tell you,...

Technology has changed the way we do everything from how we date to how we work. For many of us in developed countries, distance no...

Well, I gave my first PechaKucha talk at White Rock Live. A concept invented by design professionals to avoid “death by PowerPoint,”...

It’s like a buzz in the air. No, not the super early availability of pumpkin spice flavored products heralding fall…the whispers,...

Some people are always confident, always know what they intend to do, and don’t feel the need to seek advice from others. Then there’s...

I’ve been thinking of writing a memoir for years. In fact, if you listen closely you can hear the sounds of some of my relatives and exs...

Recently I heard a podcast with Christine Laperriere, the author of Too Busy to Be Happy: Using Emotional Real Estate to Grow Your...

Next month I’ll be facilitating another community discussion, this one on making decisions and the drive to be perfect....

Over the years, I’ve greatly enjoyed watching various video clips of author Brene’ Brown reading Teddy Roosevelt’s famous man in the...

Over the years, “I have problems with time management,” is a phrase that I’ve heard probably more than any other. Students, corporate...

Over the weekend I posted the grades for my latest course in Humanities 101. It was a typical end-of-class adventure, with some students...

Spring is here! (At least for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere) It’s time to think about cleaning out your closets, doing your...

This is me speaking to an international business conference years ago in Kuopio, Finland. OR it could be me speaking to a packed room at...

“I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.” Bette Davis Let’s be honest, not all life changes are welcome or fun....

Perhaps I could have called this the “eat your spinach” blog, but I happen to like spinach and we are approaching Valentine’s Day. One of...

Shameless—lacking any sense of shame. Shame—a painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety. Recently, I...

One of the wonders of childhood is discovering how the lowly caterpillar becomes a butterfly. Tiny little eggs become hungry, munching,...