http://goddessesinprogress.com Celebrating the Art of Reinvention ... Tue, 20 May 2008 21:02:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Kathy Freston, author I've never heard of, was on Oprah's show today about reinvention. Amazon tells me she wrote the following: Quantum Wellness: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Health and Happiness The One: Finding Soulmate Love and Making It Last Expect a Miracle: 7 Spiritual Steps to Finding the Right Relationship Oprah introduced ... http://goddessesinprogress.com/2008/05/20/oprah-does-reinvention-again/ So, has anyone else read this month's issue of ... oh, crap. I don't know what magazine it is! Allure, I think. Anyway, there's this piece in it where they talk to a bunch of medical researchers and exercise pros. And more than one of them agree: exercise isn't going ... http://goddessesinprogress.com/2008/05/20/exercise-wont-help-seriously/ We were playing around with the digital cameras last night. I got snapped -- well, let's just say it wasn't a pretty picture. Bloated. Tired expression. Thin hair pulled back into a too-tight ponytail giving me this pinched, angry look. And the roundness in the face, the double chin, the ... Yeah. ... http://goddessesinprogress.com/2008/05/13/this-aint-working-i-need-the-big-guns/ I chickened out. And I've been afraid to even admit it, so I stayed away from this blog all week. The truth is, my life is so up and down -- such a freaky roller-coaster ride -- that sometimes I get consumed with pure survival issues. Putting food on the ... http://goddessesinprogress.com/2008/05/03/howd-i-do-well/ So I talked about the physical plans that will start tomorrow (recap: yoga, walking, food diary, multivitamin, low-on-the-food-chain and cut back on the sugar). Now it's time to map out the rest. This one will be a little more list-like and less "talky" than the last one. Love Life Continue to come to ... http://goddessesinprogress.com/2008/04/27/the-grand-plan-pt-4/ Thinking about this as a whole is getting a bit overwhelming. I love plans, don't get me wrong -- I'd have been an awesome air traffic controller, or war strategist. But this is SO big, SO pervasive and SO far-reaching that I'm having difficulties just keeping it all on the same ... http://goddessesinprogress.com/2008/04/26/the-grand-plan-part-3-a-road-map-to-ambition-image/ The Story So Far So, back on this page, I revealed the scary, ugly truth about just how much my life sucks right now. You know what they say: admitting you have a (whole boatload of) problem(s) is half the battle. Now what the heck do I do? I've never been one ... http://goddessesinprogress.com/2008/04/24/the-grand-plan-part-2-now-what/ I was flipping channels idly this afternoon when I caught the last 20 minutes or so of today's Oprah show. It featured Marcus Buckingham, a career coach and writer who's all about bringing the happy to the workplace. He bases his advice on what's called "strengths training" -- but having seen ... http://goddessesinprogress.com/2008/04/19/free-online-career-coaching-program-at-oprahcom/ How Lakshmi Plans To Reinvent Herself and Her Life Having made plain my intent to drive myself batty (or battier) by tackling every major self-improvement project on my list at once all in the name of reinvention, I shall now lay the foundation of my future public humiliation by announcing to ... http://goddessesinprogress.com/2008/04/18/the-grand-plan-revealed-part-1/ Almost every personal development and self-improvement blogger, writer, and coach out there will tell you the same thing: If you want to be successful at reinventing your world, your life, yourself - you must, must, must tackle only one goal at a time. This - pardon me, goddesses - seems like ... http://goddessesinprogress.com/2008/04/17/reinvention-why-one-thing-at-a-time-is-just-plain-wrong/