A good friend of mine, Lisa Hunter is a fellow coach, and her specialty is helping extraordinary women thrive… and she particularly specializes in helping those of us who are driven to really make a difference - driven hard enough to either not know when to stop, or not know how to stop.

Each week, she puts out this amazing e-zine - The Three Minute Miracle Launcher. If you’re a spirited go-getting woman who has trouble slowing down for self-care - you MUST check out Lisa’s work. She’s not going to tell you all that blah stuff about carving time out of your schedule, and talking to yourself gently - she gives solutions for self-care that are unbelievably profound, and are effective - and best of all - easy to integrate into a schedule that’s already tight, and you can’t possibly squeeze anything else into. Go here to get in on it.

This week, in Lisa’s Miracle Launcher, she talked about the hard edges in your business. Hard edges are those things that create definition for you. So, from a business perspective, these would be things like deadlines,  or goals, or appointments. Lisa says that hard edges are good because without them, things become unfocused and muddy.

But - she also says they can turn harmful when you start slamming yourself up against them.

Boy have I been there. I’ve slammed myself up against my share of deadlines for sure. And I’ve also slammed myself against goals that were way too aggressive *ahem* that would be why I didn’t sleep well on Sunday night…

And I’m also really good at beating myself up with my hard edges - I can be REALLY hard on myself - OUCH!

Where are the hard edges for you?

I love what Lisa says this week when dealing with hard edges. She says to bring an element of softness in - in other words, be gentle with yourself. And she says to envision yourself wrapped in a cahsmere blanket or immersed in a bubble bath - get really into that vision - and THEN think about your hard edges.

Cool huh?

When you try that technique - what happens for you?

I’ll chime in to the comments section in a few days and let you know what happened for me. *Hint* I got a really good night sleep for starters

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