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It’s time to love ME!
by Amy Riley
On February 13, I attended the “Madly in Love with ME” Chicago event sponsored by Tiara and other amazing local businesses. Ever since, I have been thinking about the concept of self love. As I go about my daily routines and interact with people, I see how I can easily love and appreciate others and [...]
read more>>Routine Us Interruptus
by Shannon O'Regan
When I moved in with my now husband 2 1/2 years ago, it took an astonishing six weeks to get use to the commuting patterns around my new neighborhood. Even crazier, I only moved four blocks. It was befuddling to me how a local relocation impacted my ability to be on-time to nearly all appointment [...]
read more>>The Gift of Gratitude
by Alison Miller
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.” – Meister Eckart
I have been thinking a lot about gratitude lately. What it means, how it feels, and how to expand the presence of gratitude in my life. Gratitude is both a state of being; being [...]
read more>>What if you were granted 3 wishes?
by Elizabeth Ruske
What would you wish for?
Every so often my husband and I play an imaginary game of winning the jack-pot lotto of $50 Million or more. It’s funny, once we get past the things we would buy, pay off or donate – we end up with 90-95% of the money left to spend. Then the [...]
read more>>Are you in love with yourself?
by Betsy Sobiech
Are you in love with yourself? Unconditionally? Or are you harsh with yourself, constantly judging and comparing?
It’s funny how we often want others to provide us with a deep level of love, acknowledgment, and acceptance when we are unwilling to do so ourselves. Tiara just celebrated Madly In Love With ME day on February [...]
read more>>Acceptance as a key to freedom
by Amy Riley
In Tiara, we talk about acceptance being the key to freedom. If we are able to 1) accept our circumstances and 2) accept our reactions to the circumstances, then we’ll have the freedom to “respond” rather than “react.”
Sounds good in theory, yet I’m always one who likes to look at how it works in reality. [...]
read more>>The Gift of Intuition
by Alison Miller
Intuition is something we frequently talk about without really understanding what it is, how we can trust our own intuition, or how we can relate to the intuition others have about our lives.
What is intuition? Intuition is a knowing…different from the knowledge we possess already… it is not a knowing that comes from books or [...]
read more>>What comes first – changing the belief or changing the circumstance. . .the classic Chicken or the Egg?
by Elizabeth Ruske
Have you ever been stuck in a situation where you just can’t seem to see the way out? The harder you try to worse it gets? You try to talk about it, work around it, apply new strategies, and yet . . . you hear yourself saying things like “… I just can’t get a [...]
read more>>What’s our role in a global crisis?
by Amy Riley
We have all probably recently heard some of the shocking and disturbing details from Haiti. An article from the Associated Press starts with, “The tiny bodies of children lay in piles next to the ruins of their collapsed school. People with faces covered by white dust and the blood of open wounds roamed the streets. [...]
read more>>Everyone Deserves a Snow Day!
by Elizabeth Ruske
Today, in Chicago, Illinois it is snowing like crazy and they are predicting about 10-12 inches of snow to fall. As a kid, I would pray for snow days, but it always seemed that the more they predicted the “big” storm, the less it materialized. As an adult, I still love snow days. This morning as I was leaving my [...]
read more>>“I love my life. It’s 100% aligned with my values!”
by Betsy Sobiech
Stop! Notice your reactions to this blog title. Are you cheering this person on? Skeptical that it’s even possible? Envious and bitter because of how steeped you are in a day-to-day routine that feels anything but inspired by a deep set of values? Motivated that somebody cracked the code?
Interesting, right? Although all of us reading [...]
read more>>“I want my skateboard in the future today!”
by Betsy Sobiech
This past summer I took my nephew William, who is 3, to a great park overlooking Lake Michigan. We had a great time running, climbing, jumping, and swinging. Pretty soon it was lunchtime, and my job was to get the kids home, fed, and napping by their time my sister returned. So as we transitioned [...]
read more>>Getting unstuck …
by Betsy Sobiech
What happens when you know you need to let go of something and you really want to move to a new thing but you feel stuck? To me it feels like the infamous flying through the air on a trapeze which requires letting go of the bar you are swinging on before you can fully [...]
read more>>Where am I already a success?
by Betsy Sobiech
Last night one of our Tiaras, Stacey Schieffelin, President of ybf Cosmetics (www.ybfstacey.com ) gave the Key Note Speech at the National Conference for NAWBO (National Association of Women Business Owners) here in Chicago, IL, USA. It was great to see Stacey acknowledged for being such a fabulous and authentic – business woman. [...]
read more>>Mojo Repair
by Betsy Sobiech
In our June Tiara TeleConnect, we focused on “Mojo Repair”. How can you get back in the flow, in the groove, at ease, effective, and potent in your life?!? Here are the key questions we explored on the call:
How do you know when your mojo is out of whack? Are you irritable? Disorganized? Overwhelmed? Do [...]
read more>>The Universality of our Conversation
by Betsy Sobiech
We took a trip to the Netherlands in May to share Tiara with Franciska, Andrea, Johanneke, and Christine … women we’ve known for years as both business partners and friends. We were excited for the trip because it’s always inspiring to be with these powerful, creative women as well as be in a different country [...]
read more>>If It’s Perfect For Me – It’s Perfect for Everyone
by Betsy Sobiech
In our inspired actions tele-series we are in a great inquiry about giving ourselves permission to feel good in spite of any circumstances. That has brought up a lot of questions for me; like, how do I feel good when there is real sadness in my life? And what do I do when [...]
read more>>Feeling inspired? No? Then stop the action.
by Betsy Sobiech
Is it possible to do only what we’re inspired to do? We think so. And there’s are some nuances to the practice to consider. First, what is inspiration? Does it come from outside of you or inside of you? If the answer is that inspiration is (or can be) internally sourced, that means that it’s [...]
read more>>How To Be Lucky
by Betsy Sobiech
For those of you who participated in the Tiara Teleconnect call today, thank you for a fun exploration of how to acknowledge and create more luck in our lives.
Remember:Come from the belief that you are lucky
Keep it light and fun. Have being lucky be a game
Always be willing to “try your luck.”And, we challenged [...]
read more>>Feeling Lucky
by Betsy Sobiech
It’s pretty easy to feel lucky when it’s 70 degrees outside on St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago! We’re lucky it’s so warm. We’re lucky we get to enjoy the seasons. We’re lucky we live in this beautiful city that continues to percolate with opportunity. We’re lucky they figured out how to turn the river green. [...]
read more>>Being Bold…
by Betsy Sobiech
This month Tiara is excited to be sponsoring an event by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago called Bold Moves for Bold Women. It has me wondering whether or not I’m bold. There are some people who view my life and would say “absolutely” based on what looks bold to them … starting a business, renting a [...]
read more>>Do you already have what you are looking for?
by Betsy Sobiech
On the Tiara teleconference call on Wed (2/18/09) we talked about how you are the ultimate creator of having a life full of LOVE. There might be a couple of things that are really counter intuitive to the conversation we had, for example:
If you want to have love in your life you have to [...]
read more>>Being The Love Of Your Life
by Betsy Sobiech
February is the month of LOVE – and everyone has love in their life. Being your own best Lover is an awesome gift to give yourself. Flowers, candy, romance – sure they’re nice but nothing can top being truly accepting and loving the person you are today. What a great gift! How are you [...]
read more>>We Are Each Making History
by Betsy Sobiech
It’s clear that today history is being made. The inauguration of a president is always historical, recorded, documented, and revered. Today’s inauguration seems even more historically significant as Barack Obama takes office and his family moves into the White House.
Consider that every day, everything action we take has equal significance on the future of our [...]
read more>>Holidays…
by Betsy Sobiech
Today we have our call about the holiday season, so I’m getting a hard start by looking at my own feelings and thoughts about the upcoming two weeks. Primarily I’m feeling somewhat overwhelmed, excited, and nervous … not so much because of the holidays specifically, but because I feel like I have “so much I [...]
read more>>Being Thankful for Community
by Betsy Sobiech
It’s easy for me to be overwhelmed by the new technological ways to be connected. As we launch Tiara into 2009 we are constantly being asked about Blogging, Twittering, Facebooking, YouTubing, MySpacing, Digging, and being Linked In. The options seem endless. My immediate reactions are to feel …
Tired. Worried about getting it right. Annoyed that [...]
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