One of the best things about coaching is the variety of issues that my clients encounter in both their work and home lives. The more I coach – and the longer I live – the more I understand that over 90% of the problems we encounter involve setting and communicating...
I grew up on a farm, so when Halloween came around, Mom and Dad packed the six of us kids (ranging from 14 to 9 months) into our VW bus and we’d head to a friend’s neighborhood. You know the drill; we’d go from house to house getting candy. While sometimes we got to...
Today was hard, very hard. It started out innocuously enough. I was supposed to have a 10:00 meeting that got cancelled, so I sat down and did a little journaling followed by my daily 4 minute meditation/ visualization. And that’s when it happened. Tears came to my...
I suffer from decision fatigue big time. It occurred to me that it was time to write about this as I contemplated my semi-annual move to lose the ten pounds I put on during most years. It may not sound like significant weight gain, but ever since I lost 50 pounds 8...
Our thoughts create our reality. It’s a provocative idea, isn’t it? Every time I hear it, I also hear “You are what you eat” in my head. The statements have something in common: we are in control. In Episode 92 of our Uniquely Brilliant podcast*, Diana Bader and I...
It took me a long time to realize that experts can be wrong. They can be dead wrong. But it’s so hard to hear past all of those voices. I thought I’d share a couple of stories about what happens when we reject conventional wisdom. If you’ve read my posts, you probably...
I’ve been avoiding writing this post for a couple of days. The idea for the post came from my all too familiar internal conversation about making an appointment with my accountant. I do my own books (if they were kids, I’d be in jail for negligence), so it’s important...
Impostor Syndrome – sounds disturbing doesn’t it? Synonyms for impostor include creepy words like phony, fraud, sham, and pretender. In other words, it’s someone who is pretending to be something they’re not. In an interesting twist, Impostor Syndrome is...
Are you a knowledge junkie, always looking for new, maybe even quirky, information and points of view? If so, you’ll enjoy watching (or listening to) TED Talks. Even before I had a friend who gave a TEDx Talk (locally sponsored TED events), I watched TED Talks...
Back in July I wrote about the importance of claiming our power by owning our wins. In the weeks since then, I’ve invested a lot of time creating my new coaching program, the Women’s Career Conservatory. While talking with women about this program, I kept hearing “No...
