Happy New Year 2017! It is starting out with a bang over here at internalGPS® ! I am thrilled to be writing this post on my recently updated-with-lots-of-love website! And this is just the beginning. More to come later on that. Click HERE if you’re curious about the new site and want to look around a bit. I am still doing some clean-up and rearranging on the new site, just as if I’ve moved into a new home. Most of […]
On my recent adventure to Bali we had a planned bike ride in the mountains. It was a beautiful sunny morning and even a bit cool in the mountain breeze. We put on our helmets and did a little test ride; it has been way too long since I had to shift gears on a bike. As it turns out that was not the problem; the squeezing of the brakes was the challenge. It was nice to go down […]
Researchers have shown that one of the best ways to assure long term happiness on your road to success is to cultivate strong social connections. I was reminded of this multiple times on my recent trip to Bali. The culture there is extremely connected; they all work together as a village to manage their community and orchestrate elaborate ceremonies for their Balinese version of Hinduism. Their daily activities all revolve around their rituals and supporting each other. Each day […]
There are two Balinese healers in this town (Ubud), one is famous due to Elizabeth Gilbert’s best selling book, “Eat, Pray, Love.” Last year the workshop leaders went to him but they all had basically the same diagnosis, “You are strong beautiful woman.” Our young Balinese River Rafting Guide (we met earlier in the day) said that the famous Healer lies in order to quickly move through the long lines of waiting tourists. He recommended we go to the […]
“Whoa!! The plane is moving!!” the small boy exclaimed in the seat behind me as we jostled around in turbulence at 39k feet somewhere over the Pacific between Tokyo and Singapore. It was just “a quick 6 hour 15 minute flight” as the pilot put it. I agreed with him after the 12 hour flight from Salt Lake City to Tokyo. It is all relative! Back to the boy’s quote about the plane moving. It made me smile and […]
I am thankful for so many things; this is a list of a few technology items that are especially apparent to me in this fifth week of my time in China. Skype This is by far the internet technology I am most grateful for today; I can not say enough positive things about the skype application. It has allowed me to have video calls for free around the globe. I have had consistently good connections almost every day. The […]
This is a picture of the Chinese character for water. One of the students made it for me in my journal. He said that this character holds a lot of power in China. Water is a powerful symbol because it is so adaptable. Think about all the forms that water can take and the power it has in each of them: ice, steam, erosion, irrigation, floods. Flowing water will find its way over, around or through obstacles that are in […]
Many products here have odd translations to English. This brand of toilet paper states, “Mind Act Upon Mind”. One dish on a menu was listed as, “Angry Customer Order”. That menu had a lot of very odd and hilarious dishes; there are many more that are difficult to remember because they are so illogical. Think of a time when you communicated one thing and ended up with something completely different. In China, it is good to laugh when this happens […]
Things are so different here in China and yet there are so many things that we have in common. There were some common themes from my coaching sessions with the young Chinese women this week. I think we can all relate to them, so I thought I would share them along with some tips. How do you balance a lot of pressure and feeling tired from too much studying and work? -Focus on staying present. Focusing on the current task and […]
“Should I move to the U.S. or Canada?” After 24 hours of flying and airports I arrived in Beijing at 11pm although it was 8am my time (see last week’s post for the back story on my China trip). I sailed through the “health control” area where they collected my temperature via a machine (like an airport security x-ray machine) and I turned in my “health form” with contact and location information in case they need to chase me […]
