Is Work Damaging Our Children?
Not long ago, I was sitting in a meeting with the CEO of a fortune 500 company. She is by all measure the epitome of a successful business woman whose time is limited and in high demand. Halfway through our conversation, her cell phone rang. Her voice softened [...]
Creating Quality Failures
A while ago, I attended a continuing education workshop. The leader, a brilliant man in his 60’s, used the group to simulate real life scenarios to teach us new coaching techniques. He then encouraged us all to fail. “Fail and fail again” he said. No pressure, right? For [...]
There’s No B in Busy
Last week’s blog prompted a question from a reader. She asked to clarify the difference between being busy versus engaged. Being busy can be due to circumstances or it can be self-inflicted. Self-inflicted busy means we are doing the normal stuff to care for our families, work responsibilities and [...]
The Spring Challenge
Every stage of life has a pacifier in it. Something we nurse, or hold on to for comfort. At its best this calms our nerves and eases our mind. At its worse it keeps us stuck in a stage of life that we are destined to outgrow. The [...]
Stop Looking for Your Purpose
I have a colleague who recently told me she was trying to find her purpose. She also shared that last year she was asked to chair a board for a hospice that has grown exponentially under her leadership. I asked why she didn’t see that as a purpose. [...]
Tone Is Everything
What we say means very little in the wake of how we say it. “You’re fired” to “I love you” can have many different meanings depending on the shear inflection of our voice. Tone communicates the real message. And, yesterday was a needed reminder. […]