Category Archives: Happiness

Quitting or Sticking Using Your internalGPS

By Paula Shoup | Published: August 23, 2010
On my recent adventure to Bali we had a planned bike ride in the mountains. It was a beautiful sunny morning and even a bit cool in the mountain breeze. We put on our helmets and did a little test ride; it has been way too long since I had to shift gears on a [...]
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Using your internalGPS for Strong Connections

By Paula Shoup | Published: August 15, 2010
Researchers have shown that one of the best ways to assure long term happiness on your road to success is to cultivate strong social connections.  I was reminded of this multiple times on my recent trip to Bali.  The culture there is extremely connected; they all work together as a village to manage their community [...]
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Bali Healers, Assumptions & Coincidences on Your Path

By Paula Shoup | Published: August 5, 2010
There are two Balinese healers in this town (Ubud), one is famous due to Elizabeth Gilbert’s best selling book, “Eat, Pray, Love.”  Last year the workshop leaders went to him but they all had basically the same diagnosis, “You are strong beautiful woman.”  Our young Balinese River Rafting Guide (we met earlier in the day) [...]
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Using Your internalGPS: Where Are You Going?

By Paula Shoup | Published: July 29, 2010
“Whoa!! The plane is moving!!” the small boy exclaimed in the seat behind me as we jostled around in turbulence at 39k feet somewhere over the Pacific between Tokyo and Singapore.  It was just “a quick 6 hour 15 minute flight” as the pilot put it.  I agreed with him after the 12 hour flight [...]
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Coaching For a Shift on the Road to Success

By Paula Shoup | Published: July 18, 2010
In coaching it is great to feel a shift in a client.  It may be a small one that is a small step toward their ultimate goal or a big one that appears as an “a ha!” moment and changes everything.  The cool thing about a shift is that it requires nothing in the external [...]
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Freedom to Navigate to Success with Your internalGPS

By Paula Shoup | Published: July 5, 2010
As we in the US celebrate our freedom this summer I have been thinking about freedom as a state of mind.  It is a way of looking at our choices. It is easy to forget that we have choices.  We automatically think that there is no choice but to set that alarm, get up and [...]
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Lightness and Faith On Your Path to Success

By Paula Shoup | Published: June 27, 2010
There has been a lot of press about Apple’s big milestone in May of becoming the largest technology company in the world at $50 billion plus (and only second in size to ExxonMobil in the U.S.).  Recently a friend sent me Steve Job’s commencement speech from 2005 (linked).  His messages are timeless; I am focusing [...]
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Navigating to Success Anniversary!

By Paula Shoup | Published: June 21, 2010
To celebrate this year of blogging I reflected back on some of the obstacles I faced in writing it and hope that sharing these lessons will help you navigate to success (toward your dreams). Daunting This is the best word to describe how I felt as I looked at my new site with zero blog [...]
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Curiosity Cured the Cat: Navigating to Success with Curiosity

By Paula Shoup | Published: June 13, 2010
It is unfortunate that one of our American idioms- curiosity killed the cat- is fear-based and encourages us to stay put.  There is so much power and enjoyment in shifting to an inquisitive attitude that encourages new discoveries and an open mind. It is possible to grow your inquisitive skills through practice and shifting of [...]
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Keeping it Simple & Easy on the Path to Success

By Paula Shoup | Published: June 5, 2010
I read a couple posts this past week about keeping things simple and not grinding away at things (see links below).  It is such a powerful (and simple!) message.  I sometimes catch myself making something more complex that it needs to be or inviting struggle into a situation that does not need it or keeping [...]
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