What Will Your Presence Bring You? Here we are: 2020! Someone recently mentioned that we are as close, time-wise, to 2050 as we are to 1990 and my brain shattered into a million tiny pieces. In spite of the evidence, I’m pretty sure 1990 was still just ten...
Don’t Be “Nice” I used to think of myself as a nice person. I don’t anymore. In fact, if people refer to me as nice, I cringe. It was a passage in Gavin de Becker’s book, The Gift of Fear, that first changed my opinion of this word: We must learn and then teach our...
Being Yourself Isn’t Enough Do you ever feel misunderstood? Like people don’t see or “get” the real you? Overlooked, perhaps? Maybe you are hardworking or intelligent or compassionate or clever… How many people actually see you that way? I remember one time a...
Fall Colors: What’s Hiding Behind All That Work? Fall is not my favorite season. I miss the longer daylight hours and warmer temperatures of summer. But the shorter, cooler days do produce something I absolutely love: gorgeous fall colors. As you might remember...
Do you want to change the world? Or your office culture? Or your relationship with your boss? Or anything at all in your life? Then you have to change yourself. Nothing gets my coaching clients and workshop participants more riled up than this truth. And granted, it’s...
