If you interact with other humans in any part of your life, there will be conflict at some point. In design and construction, you have a new team on every project. That means new personalities, new dynamics, new saboteurs and lots of potential conflicts. That sounds challenging because it is! However, there’s a simple shift in perspective that can make things a lot smoother.

Do any of these ring true? You don’t bill all of your time (or worse, maybe you don’t even track it). You consistently send invoices late. You haven’t raised your rates lately (or ever). If so, your Imposter (aka The Judge) is at work. This post discusses strategies to shush your imposter, lower stress and grow prosperity.

Janine Aurichio on A Well Designed Business podcast Power Talk Friday with LuAnn Nigara, discussing mental fitness, saboteurs and sages, and the simple operating system to take back command of your mind.

It seems fair to say that work/life balance is still a work-in-process for most people, myself included.* I’ll go out on a limb and even say it’s not sustainable. By definition life throws things in our way—illness, unexpected delights, change, traffic, natural disasters, falling in or out of love—that shake our alignment or knock us off balance. No wonder we struggle!

Like so many things, we tend to think confidence and esteem will come from “out there.” When I achieve the next level/goal/position. When I get the affirmation or accolades. When I finally get paid $X. Or if we just think hard enough about it, it will be so. Oh, no. We can’t think or wish ourself into more confidence. It takes effort and action, bit by bit building a stronger sense of self by doing esteemable acts—acts that push our edges and put us directly in the center of our care and concern. Acts that might be scary and that might have us fall on our face. But we tried; we showed up for ourself.

According to researchers at Cornell University we make 226.7 decisions a day just on food alone. Imagine the number of decisions for entrepreneurs and business owners! And then layer on the complexities of a design or construction project. Yikes. Decision fatigue is real. Part of that could be trying to use your analytical mind to solve problems that actually require intuition instead.

Nature is my muse and mentor; she has so many lessons to teach if I just watch and listen. This post expands on my top six.

Adjusting to others’ expectations, needs and desires can be soul crushing. Using the tools of Intuition Medicine(R), you can more fully embody and fortify your physical and energetic space.

What will you carry forward from the pandemic? Frankly, going back to “normal” isn’t all that appealing to me. Normal wasn’t so great in many ways, personally, locally, nationally or globally.

Then I remembered y.a.h.o.o. - you always have other options.

For many of us, the ideas of “success” in our society actually leads to all sort of unauthentic and unhealthy thoughts and behaviors. I know because I was one among. The generally accepted ideas that more is more, productivity is king (or queen), busy is a badge of honor and your value is tied to your output is making us sick.

Ever meet someone and just like their "vibe?" The Beach Boys were onto something. The below concept was introduced at a seminar I attended last weekend and it has had an indelible impression on my mind, heart and spirit.

I had another awakening last week that I want to share with you to, 1) take away the sting (we're only as sick as our secrets), 2) stay right-sized, and 3) hopefully encourage anyone trying to break an old habit or pattern of behavior. They say to teach what you need to learn, surely I'm no exception...read on!

They say courage is fear that has said its prayers. My prayer is that I say what I need to say, hear what I need to hear, that it lands with whom it’s supposed to land, and that it is all for the highest spiritual good.