Travel - Kayla MacArthur

September 29, 2017

How to Make Progress When You Want to Give Up

I’m currently stuffed into a sunken arm chair facing shelves and shelves of books. They’re faded and worn, some crumpled and torn at the edges. If I’m lucky, a soft, cool breeze floats in through the window to my left. It carries with it conversation and a tinkle of silverware from the tables below. If I listen hard enough, I can hear the Sawmill River rushing over its rocky bed. For quite some time now, I’ve wanted to visit the Book Mill. It’s quaint allure has called me closer and as I sit here, finally here, I can feel the magic and the charm I hoped it would have. In...

August 1, 2017

The Art of Getting Unstuck: Coming Home to Who You Want to Be

Travel

I carefully lowered myself into a small, shallow pool. It was worn in the smooth rock that spread over the Earth like butter. The water was warm and soft on my skin. Carefully lying back, I found the perfect nook to rest my head in. I took a deep breath and let my hands float to the surface of the water. Before me, sweeping blue mountains rose into rounded peaks. A river rushed forward, bubbling it’s way around boulders and rocks that dotted the bank. The air was pure and fresh with a hint of pine floating off the forest that flanked each side of the river. I sunk deep...

July 25, 2017

Clarity in Cabo: Why I’m Going Part-Time in My Coaching Business

Travel

Nothing can touch the bliss I feel. Even as we’re thousands of feet in the air flying home, a sense of peace has settled in my bones and I’m luxuriating in it like a bath. For the past four months, I’ve felt eerily lost. I thought that because my business had finally reached a certain level of success, I’d never feel this way again.. It seems, though, that no matter where you are on the journey, there are still stretches of discomfort where creativity dries up, utter exhaustion sets in, and the cash that flowed freely before, starts to slow. I’ve been patiently surrendering into this barren void and like...

May 3, 2017

What Tulum Taught Me About Manifesting More Success

Travel

It took me three days to completely turn off. In one of the most beautiful paradises I’ve ever been to, it took me three whole days to leave the computer locked in the tent and to pack the personal development books back in my suitcase. Three whole days—lost to the illusion that one can be “on” while simultaneously turning “off.” What Tulum taught me, with all of its beauty and magic, was how to relax again. And I’m not talking about the kind where you kid yourself by having one foot in and one foot out—I’m talking full on relaxation. What Tulum taught me was the kind of relaxation where...

April 5, 2017

3 Powerful Insights From a Rich Litvin Coaching Intensive

Travel, Business

Before we left the Rich Litvin Coaching Intensive to go back to our lives, and a world that didn’t expand like we did, Rich encouraged us to sit with our experiences and insights—to keep them to ourselves and let them shift how we show up in the world. He encouraged us to let people feel our expansion, rather than talk about it. While I have every intention of honoring his wisdom, I also know myself well enough to know that my expansion integrates more deeply from turning around and teaching. While I can’t possibly fit the magnitude of what I experienced at the Rich Litvin Coaching Intensive into a single...

January 12, 2017

Victim vs. Creator: Who Are You Being?

Travel

Hit the rewind button to three years ago, when I was stuffed in a car for thirty hours on the way home from our last stop in Denver. It had been eight weeks since I’d lived a normal life and returning home felt like a cage. {Listen on SoundCloud >>here} I remember watching the tiny beads of rain cling to the windshield and feeling their pain as they were ripped away by the wind. Outside, miles of flat farmland swept by. Somewhere on the horizon of Missouri, with legs folded on the seat and journal pressed against my thighs, my hair stood on end and my heart sank into my...

October 13, 2016

How Not to Live Your Life {Unless You Want to Be Successful AND Free}

Travel

Today, I’m writing to you from a cute little coffee shop in North Conway. The sky is bright and clear. The air is crisp and freshly fallen leaves blanket the sidewalks. The colors are unreal. Brilliant yellows. Blazing reds. Bright oranges. Being so far from home, tucked away before sweeping mountain views, I can’t help but revel in how grateful I am for my life. For where I am in this exact moment. It was only three years ago that I was a tiny spec on the map of America, puttering my way through the lush beauty of the state of Oregon on the road trip that would change my...

August 30, 2016

How to Manifest A Successful Business Easily and Effortlessly

Manifestation, Business, Travel

There was once a moment in time where I almost gave up on my business. I questioned if I was really meant to be a coach.Every time I was about to get on a call, I felt so much resistance.Everything about coaching felt hard. And not to mention, I didn’t have any paying clients. Every time I launched an offer, I was greeted with the sound no entrepreneur wants to hear: crickets. I needed a miracle if I was going to manifest a successful business. While I waited for my miracle to occur, I turned my attention to writing and creating products. I went to a retreat in Bali to...

June 8, 2016

6 Ways to Create Strong Connections

Business, Manifestation, Travel

If you’re ready to leap into the next level of your soul-led life and business, you need to take stock of what and who you’re surrounding yourself with. Is your environment conducive to the direction you want to go?Are your relationships supportive?Do you have access to people who are where you want to be? If you want to rise, you have to surround yourself with people who also want to rise, or have already risen. You need to create strong connections. Why? “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”– Jim Rohn Like Jim Rohn suggests, you become more like the people you associate...

March 25, 2016

“I’m Not Worthy.” How Bali Shifted My Perspective on Personal & Professional Worth.

Travel

I went to Bali to write my book. What happened in Bali was far greater than anything I had hoped to accomplish. It was a beautiful unfolding of fate—a divine intervention waiting to happen. Sisterhood was forged. Life-changing insight was revealed. What I found was friendship, clarity, and an unshakable faith. I admitted things I hadn’t even admitted to myself. I found answers I didn’t even know I was looking for. It’s funny how travel does that. With every venture into the unknown, a new layer of yourself is revealed. You learn things. You make connections. You see things in a different light. Life finally makes sense and just as...