“Beauty isn’t just satisfaction. You don’t just rest in it.  It’s not just distress.  It’s not just painful.  It’s a joyful pain.  It breaks your heart…  A joy, a wonder, and a distress, more deep than any other because here one touches truth.  Such emotions all beauty induce; an astonishment, a delicious wonderment, a longing,…
Author: Carrie Nielsen
As a wife, mother, business owner, coach, retired professor, and Marketing Executive, I wear many hats, but my true passion lies in leadership and empowering the next generation of leaders. 💪🌟 I believe in the power of inspiring and guiding others to reach their full potential. Join me on this journey of growth and empowerment!
The State of My World (From the Outside In)
“Don’t think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You’re here. It’s our time and our life, not theirs. Don’t struggle not to be happy. You are.” – Ayn Rand “When you decide you want to join the grown-ups again, let me…
Words
“True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive. -Mignon McLaughlin The statistics of English are astonishing. Â There are over 2,700 languages worlwide and English arguably bears the most complex and richest vocabulary. Â The Oxford English Dictionary lists about 500,000 and with another half-million technical and scientific terms, and…
The Difference Between Truth and Answers
You can bend it and twist it… you can misuse and abuse it… but even God cannot change the truth.” – Michael Levy I’m tired today. Â I could crawl in bed, cover my head with the covers and sleep for days. Â And not just to rest, but to escape from myself. Â My heart is heavy…
Get Lost
Not until we are lost, do we begin to understand ourselves. -Henry David Thoreau I have an annoying habit of getting lost. Â I’ve never been good at reading maps and I was a teenager before I knew North, South, East, and West in the city I’d lived most of my life. Â Once, when I was…
You Are Mine
When I got home from teaching Pilates this morning, the sun was just peeking over the trees in the creek across from my house. Â I stood in the door, coffee mug in hand and watched it rise. Â My younger daughter was on her way home and she appeared around the corner toddling up to the…
Go.
Siesta Key, FL “Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.” – Paulo Coehlo I’ve spent a large part of this year traveling for my job. It began in Southern California last February, and I’ve been all over the country and met people from coast to coast. I’ve spent a lot…
Lasting Impressions
I have always been able to remember minute details. Â Not necessarily a photographic memory, but an ability to recall small seemingly unimportant things, particularly about interactions with people. Smells, sounds, specifics, things that my brain refuses to let go of over time. Â And while I can’t often remember what I had for dinner two days…
Life Lesson #10: Flow in the Hustle
“Good things happen to those who hustle.”  – Anais Nin When Taylor trudged down the stairs this morning at 7:45 AM I’d already been awake for nearly three hours.  I was typing at my computer, black coffee and the remains of my egg white omelet next to me on a plate.  I was researching release work techniques…
A Break in the Storm
When I left the house tonight to head to the Pilates studio where I teach, the skies were menacing, clouds building and light thunder rumbling in the distance. Â I snapped a picture as I drove. Â I parked in the back row of the lot and jogged across the mostly empty parking spaces as large raindrops…
Leaving a Path 