Is balance your measuring stick for living fully? Not me.
There are some 35,800,000 results when you Google “work-life balance”. Over 35 million results… It seems many are looking for balance. I’ll admit, the quest for balance has never really resonated with me. Take work-life balance. Does work-life balance mean you spend half your time at work and the other half on your life? Is […]
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I used to be lousy at celebrating too
I witness so many of my clients accomplishing amazing things—making drastic career changes, launching businesses, starting blogs and writing books, quadrupling their networks, shedding limiting beliefs, pursuing passions… It’s not that all these accomplishments go smoothly from A to Z. There are setbacks. There are missteps along the way. But there are also amazing milestones […]
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What do you want to learn?
A new language? How to knit? Ways to be more patient? How to network effectively? To be a better golfer? To laugh more? Improve your photography skills? How to do that DIY project you’ve been putting off? Tackle French cooking? Master a new yoga pose? How to start a blog? To be a better communicator? […]
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Here are 11 books that made a difference to me
Everyone has a list of books that have inspired them. I’d like to share a few of my favorites. Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman Martin Seligman is on my shortlist of people I’d most like to chat with over a cup of coffee. You’ll love reading about how optimists believe defeat is a temporary setback […]
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Are you the heroine of your story?
We each have a narrative to tell about our life. It’s interesting what we decide to include—and exclude—in the telling. What’s the story you tell? Do you start from the beginning or do you skip entire chapters? Do you edit out the parts where you flubbed your lines or do you unabashedly recount the missteps […]
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Making time for what matters most
You’re living a busy life. Caring for children, caretaking elderly parents. Working and making ends meet. Running errands, marking off chores, doing what needs to be done. And if you’re like most women, time feels in short supply. I wish I had more time. There aren’t enough hours in the day. I’ll get around to it […]
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Are you ready to play in a bigger arena?
I received a reminder from nature about the new possibilities that open up when we play in a bigger arena. Here’s what happened: I had a small plant that was thriving nicely in a small planter. I’d had the plant for years and it was remarkably consistent in size. Exploded in growth I recently decided […]
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I love this question: What’s the golden nugget?
What’s the golden nugget? I love this question because it can be applied anywhere, anytime. I dare you to find a situation or struggle, a success or setback where asking this question won’t produce a gem. Lesson learned I define a golden nugget as the most important lesson, but everyone has their own definition. I’ve […]
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Have you had a teaching moment today?
I was having lunch with a friend the other day and the subject of LeBron James came up. My friend was appalled at LeBron’s decision to go to the Miami Heat. During our discussion, he said he used the primetime event as a teaching moment about selfishness with his young son. I love the idea of extracting […]
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I’ve never noticed spring as much as this year
I’ve never noticed Spring as much as this year. Or at least I haven’t noticed it this much in a decade. Want to know why? Because I had my nose to a (largely self-imposed) grindstone and was working all the time. And when I wasn’t working, I was too bleary-eyed from overwork to notice much […]
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Sometimes it’s not the grand gesture
The UPS guy delivered a package to me yesterday. He rang the doorbell, but I was on a call and only got to the door as he was driving away. I found not only my package on the doorstep, but also the two empty recycling bins that had been out at the curb that morning […]
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Is love a priority in your life?
It’s Valentine’s Day. Is love a priority in your life? Do you put work and results ahead of the people in your life? Do you let the busyness of life take top billing over loved ones? It’s so easy to get in the habit of taking those we love for granted—believing there will always be […]
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