Nanci Dueck

05/10/2026

This day last year we gained a daughter❤️ Happy Anniversary James and Kayla!! Love you two so much🥰🥰

04/26/2026

Happiest of birthdays to this “boy” of mine!! I’m a couple days late but wanted to give him a shout out. If you can’t tell from the picture, it is pure joy to be his mother. Still haven’t posted his wedding pics … figured now I may as well wait for his anniversary. Which means coming soon! Love you James❤️

02/24/2026

I’m that old.

02/18/2026

02/18/2026

In my homebody era.

02/08/2026

Embrace your strengths. That’s all.

01/04/2024

I use to HATE goal setting.

And that includes New Year's Resolutions!

Hate is a strong word, and maybe that's slightly exaggerated, but I really REALLY didn't like setting goals.

The problem was that I NEVER REACHED MY GOALS.

No, seriously. I'm pretty sure there wasn't even one that I ever accomplished.

The only thing I seemed to be accomplishing with my goals was the art of feeling terrible about myself!

It's not fun.

You probably can't relate😉

That all changed a couple years back when I learned (thanks to Brooke Castillo) about something called Strategic Byproduct.

✨Strategic Byproduct blew my mind✨

Because when it comes down to it, goal setting isn't actually about accomplishing a goal. What?!🤯

To be fair, it definitely can be and probably is for a lot of people. Clearly we would all like to achieve our goals. We set them because we think they're valuable and important.

BUT what goal setting is really about (for me at least!!) is all the experiences, changes, and growth that occur on the way to the goal. Just by working on it. Just by planning for it. Just by feeling the excitement of it.

Yep, it's who you become and what you gain as a byproduct of striving for that goal.

The problem is the expectation that we have to achieve the goal, and that if we don't we've proven to ourselves yet again that we will always fall short.

This year I can't wait to set my goals. In fact, I'm planning a little Vision Boarding session that I might share some glimpses of:)

I CAN'T WAIT to set them, because I can't wait to see what Strategic Byproduct comes from them throughout this year.

Am I still going to set lofty goals?
Heck yeah.

Am I going to expect to reach them in full?
Absolutely not.

But I am expecting to be different (in incredible ways) at the end of 2024 because of them.

Soooo, if you are anti-goals like I was, stop focusing on the goal itself and start focusing on the Strategic Byproduct. I bet you'll surprise yourself by who you become.

07/21/2023

I may be a life coach but I am NOT "perfect". Faaaar from it in fact, including in the way I sometimes eat. For example, if today is me vs. the malasada, my bet is on the malasada. Just a hypothetical of course;).

07/13/2023

... where I'll teach what I would in my one-on-one coaching practice and then show how I would coach through real-life scenarios. You'd be completely anonymous to all other individuals who "attend" (other than myself;) and you'd be able to submit your own scenarios for me to coach from.

I'll probably eventually offer this as a monthly membership but at the moment am just wanting to test it out, so there’s no cost. And you can just pop in and out as you’d like, so no commitment either.

Send me a message if you’re interested, and I’ll add you to an info list. Hoping to begin in the next week or so. My coaching is general, so will basically cover all life topics, including relationships, anxiety, depression, and living with chronic health challenges.

06/12/2023

"It spins on conscious creativity. On opening up, not shutting down."

This!! This is it. We all get caught in the white-knuckling. In the stress and anxiety and perfectionism and endless planning. But all we get from it is more white-knuckling.

Is this a white knuckling week for you? It definitely could have been for me!! And I've certainly had my moments. But then I stopped, took a deep breath or two (or twenty) and opened up.

Opened up my mind to the "okayness" of everything. Even when it all feels so not okay.

Opened up my mind to the immense amount of creativity and problem solving that is there, when I'm willing to lean into it instead of leaning into worry and stress.

When I do this, my entire life opens up as well, and I am amazed at what I can do.

Yours can too. Simple fact.