But Which One Should I Choose? There Are a Hundred Things I Could Do You might have several things you want to work on. That’s great! For now, I encourage you to choose one. You can use the Mindset Reset process again and again, anytime, with any goal. The more you do each of these…
Finding Your Pearl
Shauna had found what I like to call her Pearl. Picture this: an oyster, minding its own little oyster business, somewhere on the ocean floor. A current in the water disturbs the sand around it, and a single grain gets lodged in its shell. The oyster has no way to get rid of it, so…
Choose a Goal
A few years ago, I had the privilege of working with Shauna, a stay-at-home mom whose dreams of going back to work had begun to feel impossible. “I left my career in finance eleven years ago to raise my children. When they were old enough, I started to homeschool them, ” she told me during…
How Do You Actually Do Moticise
I hope it will be impossible for you to read this book sitting down. Okay, not literally. But kind of. Throughout this book, I am going to do everything in my power to get you out of your seat. Why? Because sitting is a big part of what helps us go nowhere—or feel like we’re…
Why Moticise?
Stephen launched his business. I began prepping to launch mine. I knew I wanted to help people get unstuck in their lives, and I knew that both movement and mindset were essential to making real change. How could I use what I’d learned to help others? I started experimenting with different ideas based on my…
Back in That Hot Rental Car…
Years later, as I sat in the car with Stephen, all this came flooding back. The weight of failure—which I knew all too well—looked like it was crushing the talented, driven man I loved. Sonia, I told myself. You’ve been there before. This is exactly why you became a coach. Do something! “It’s just so…
How to Make a Million Dollars
I sat with my husband as he soaked in the reality of the present moment. We had flown out to Los Angeles from New York City for a meeting with his boss, and we’d been hoping for good news—a promotion, a raise, a new project. Instead, he’d been fired. And he was devastated. We were…
Clothing the individual, household, and family Part 4
Joan Mellish also ‘laid out’ money for Molly Harvey’s clothing on behalf of her son. In 1708 she described purchases of ‘Pladd for the Childrens Coats’, ‘scotscloth for [Molly] Harvey Handk’, and ‘Black Shallou[n] and ferret Ribband’ for a petticoat for Molly Harvey, which John Harvey paid her for later that year. 77 ‘Proxy shopping’,…
Clothing the individual, household, and family Part 3
Another key difference between the accounts of Sarah Mellish and those of Dorothy Chambers is that Mellish’s expenditure was overwhelmingly dedicated to her own clothing, while Chambers frequently spent more money on clothing for other people in her family and household. She usually noted for whom a payment had been made, often using her children’s…
Clothing the individual, household, and family Part 2
On average, Sarah Mellish’s account book suggests that she usually spent between a quarter and a half of her yearly expenditure on clothing (Table 1). This expenditure fluctuated yearly, and according to how much she had spent in total. Purchases of mourning dress in 1710 and 1714 reflected an expensive investment, while unusually high expenditure…