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Category Archives: Decide

Real obstacles or darn good excuses?

What do you do when you want to change your life but the obstacles seem daunting? One of our readers lives near Boston and feels totally stuck there, especially during the long winters. She dreams of moving some place warm but keeps coming up against three stumbling blocks:

her husband loves Boston, the cold and his [...]

How to take that scary first step

Changing course starts with making a decision
We really love how easy it’s become to send a note to someone you’ve never met. It used to be that if you wanted to write to an author, you’d write to their publisher or agent and then hope the letter would actually get forwarded on. Now you can [...]

Why you should run away from home

When did you last allow yourself time to dream?  
We’ve come up with a tactic that helps us focus on what’s important in our lives and what can wait until later: We run away from home. Not for long, of course – just long enough to give us perspective. For us, that means driving over [...]

Where do you want to go?

Changing your course starts with making a decision 
Step one to creating a life you love is to decide you want to make a change, whether large or small. Nothing else matters if you’re not willing to decide. And this decision sets the course for creating the kind of life you can truly love.

But if you [...]

Our big move to Anguilla…

Bob and the gang launching the boat they built together
Just got asked once again by someone who’s thinking of making a move, how did we ever make the decision to move to Anguilla? The long answer, of course, is it’s all in our books. But our decision to change course always starts with identifying our own [...]

Changing Our Course

When we started to write our latest book, Changing Your Course, our goal was to help people identify which part of their lives they’d like to change and provide the tools needed to help readers through the process. We saw the book as our response to the many people who have asked us advice about [...]


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