Clarifying is Critical: How Clarifying Questions Can Alleviate Stress and Offer Control This past Wednesday I had the pleasure and privilege of speaking to students at my Alma Mater. (See photo above) Among the many topics we covered was the importance of… Read More
Patience, Young Grasshopper, 2020 is Only One Week Old I don’t know about the rest of you but I’ve spent the first days of 2020 feeling discombobulated/stressed/blue. I’m thinking this is partly due to the additional hoopla surrounding this… Read More
“The Problem, if You Love It, Is as Beautiful as the Sunset” Greetings Wow-of-the-Week-ers, As is the promise of the holiday season, I hope that all is marvelously well in your worlds. On the off chance that you have—or are concerned about—encountering… Read More
Victimhood is Powerful… But is it the Power You Want? This past week I was speaking with a client whose bad judgment call had – without question—created uproar in her firm. She called me not to confer about how to… Read More
Right Now all You Need to Be is ‘Directionally Correct’” It’s the first week of December and I’m guessing in thirty days there will be any number of people who are feeling crummy that they’ve already broken their new year’s… Read More
“Fail, fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett Recently I’ve found myself irritated (and that’s a nice way of putting it) when I see clients/friends/acquaintances who are not – as I see it—working to their potential. Luckily for… Read More
How Giving the “Because” Moves Others to Action: Last week I had the great privilege of speaking at a breakfast hosted by the Women’s Roundtable for recent graduates of N.E.W– Nontraditional Employment for Women— and 12 potential employers.… Read More
Welcome to “The Year of Absurd Prosperity”: The Readiness is All Before I begin, allow me to wish you happy, jolly, merry, joy. Regardless of what’s on your calendar for the holidays—whether it’s hosting 100 of your nearest and dearest or… Read More
Two is One, and One is None This is a phrase my brother, a former captain in the Marine Corps, likes a lot— and it’s one the military uses frequently. What this maxim does is turn the… Read More