Don’t Disconnect: Do Your Actions Back Up Your Words? Some of you may remember my post from a few weeks ago talking about a client who was anxious to prove to his higher-ups that he was ripe for promotion.… Read More
Control What You Can: Zooming In On Your Next Zoom With the world feeling oh-so-slightly out of control, I thought I would offer a few ways to help you zoom in and control what you can—namely your next Zoom meeting.… Read More
Don’t Let “For Worse” Friends Bring Out Your Worst A few years ago I wrote about “foul weather friends.” You know, the people who show up in your life the day you get laid off, your kid gets suspended,… Read More
How to Reset Your (Mental) Surge Protector Most of us know about the “fight or flight” response, triggered by our adrenal glands in stressful situations. For many of us, these glands have been in overdrive for months.… Read More
Put Santa Out of Business: Sitting with the Cognitive Dissonance of Both/And Statements As has been exhaustively documented in recent weeks, I’m in a yoga training. During a recent “Yoga and Anti-Racism” segment we discussed the importance of sitting with the discomfort of… Read More
“You Can’t Make an Entrance if You Never Leave” This past week I was listening to an interview with Chris Rock during which he mentioned a piece of advice he had received from Lorne Michaels, “You can’t make an… Read More
“That’s Not My Problem” & Other Customer Service Missteps Should you be having a birthday, and be anywhere in my vicinity, I will happily be in charge of getting you a cake. (I am all about birthday cake. It… Read More
“There are Years that Ask Questions and Years that Answer” We’ve all had years that have asked us questions: we’ve gotten married or divorced, a parent has died, we’ve lost a job, illness has manifested, children have arrived… But I’m… Read More
“Thank You for Correcting Me” As I mentioned a few Wow’s ago, I’m in the midst of an online education course. This morning our teacher corrected a student’s Sanskrit pronunciation and she responded, “Thank you… Read More
Why—and How—to Tell Someone a Secret This past week a client confided to me that he had been keeping a secret from his business partner. (What the secret is is not germane to this conversation.) His… Read More