Stephanie Cooper Willoughby's Blog

“Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.”

~Leo Tolstoy

You’ve been dreaming of making some big differences in your life this year – perhaps a new job, finding a relationship, working on your fitness, or maybe it’s something simple like taking up a new hobby or expanding your “real life” social circle. But for some reason you find the weeks rolling by and you look around yourself to find that nothing has changed. You’re tired, your frustrated and you have no i...

If you’ve been wondering what was inside the book, now is a wonderful opportunity to get your hands one very special chapter of my book.

Why is thisparticular chapter so special? Well, because it contains a HUGE life lesson. One of the biggest life lessons I gained along my journey to evolve from living in a state of brokenness, to living BOLD. The best...

No matter how you slice it, change is almost always hard – even if the end result of the change you are striving for is likely to be positive. Why? Because we fear the things that we can not see, control, or completely understand. We fear“the unknown”and since we can never truly know the result of the choice we are making or action we are taking before we actually make it or do it, we often fear and ruminate on the worst result, instead of hopefully expecting the best.

This is very common, es...

Grab this nifty little reminder to think positive during the month of July!

No matter what your focus is – whether it’s to improve yourself, your personal relationships, or you want to make positive strides in your career or business, this is a handy little reminder to think positive, expansive thoughts.

I’ve got it saved as my wallpaper so when I feel overwhelmed or unmotivated, I can pick one positive statement and really concentrate on it for a few moments, helping me to regain my focus an...

Everything works so much better when we are able to get clarity on our goals, and we commit to a definitive plan of action to help us achieve them!

I have created this sweet little weekly planner that is going to help you better define and focus on your BOLDgoals, and create and commit to an action plan – creating both personal accountability and a fun, visual way to keep track of your results.

For your FREE pdf download, hop on over here now!

Also, I’m planning some more fun, free productivi...

I’m SO excited to finally be able to announce that my new book “Changing Lanes: A chronicle of one young widow’s journey to make sense of her life following her husband’s sudden death” is now available for purchase!

For several years following the loss of my husband, I wrote about my journey in a blog I called “Changing Lanes”. 8 years after that journey began, I am so pleased and proud to be able to bring this little book into the world.

While I tend to blog now with a much broader perspecti...

There is a saying that we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with. The more I examine this theory, by both self reflection and observation of other people in and around my life and their individual tribes, the more I find this statement to be true.

If you are the average – or the reflection – of the five people you spend the most time with, what do those five people who make up your BOLDtribe say about you? Do they tell the world that you are an ambitious, intelligent g...

I coulda…. I shoulda…. I wish I (or we, or he, or she) woulda….

Ah, yes, the elder statesmen of the “what if’s” collective… I’m sure that you’re familiar with them. Most of us have bumped into them on occasion at one time or another. Perhaps you’ve even had more than a simple run-in with them. Maybe they’ve dropped in for an extended visit, or even taken up residency in the guest room (eek!)…

It’s easy to get sucked in by the “what if’s”. They take your hand and lead you on all sorts of wonde...

When we grieve a loss of any kind, whether its the loss of a loved one, the dissolution of our marriage, a major job loss or many other occurrences of unwanted/unexpected loss or change in our lives, anger is generally recognized as one of several emotions we may experienceduring our journey to heal from the loss. And while it might be an expected part of grief, loss and change, anger is actually quite often a manifestation of other emotions that we are trying to deal with – from sadness, to...

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Are you clinging to a state of unhappiness out of fear ofstepping in to the unknown? When events in our lives create massive change, especially of the unwanted variety,arising from our feelings of sadness, anger, or perhaps even despair, we can sometimes find ourselvesobsessing over, and attempting to regain, or reclaim, our past – even if the past wasn’t so perfect (in which case it becomes a case of better the devil you know).

However, our past is just that: passed. It is something that no...