Lately, I’ve been living in more gratitude. It could be that I’m reading less news, getting more coaching, and getting outside, but I’ve noticed it showing up everywhere: in my family, my work, my community, even the way my pets want to hang out with me. Over that same time period, my business has been…
Somewhere in the middle of the COVID years, I shrank. Not all at once. It happened gradually. I built some strong virtual relationships during the lockdown, so when things opened back up, I stuck with that way of doing things. I turned down trips and offered Zoom instead. I skipped conferences, coffees, and lunches —…
Is the drive to achieve a powerful motivator for you? If so, it’s likely been a positive force in your life–that drive, along with grit and hard work, has likely brought you acclaim and success. But, I’ll bet that no matter how hard you work, or how much you’ve achieved, you’re still pushing for more….
Imagine we live in a world where everyone wears glasses that have a particular distorting effect. When you wear the glasses, your senses notice only the positive in what others have or do and diminish what you have or do. Through those glasses, my experience would be: What would it be like to live with…
I was heads down developing workshop content for a client’s team meeting. I had the outline open, the cursor was blinking, and I was stuck. I knew what I wanted to do, but the structure wasn’t coming together. The longer I stared at it, the more my mind started to wander, and before I knew…
After a 5-hour flight, we were finally taxiing into the gate. There was a lot of excitement around me. I was headed to LA for training, but a large group of people nearby was headed to Hawaii. They had a tight connection to make the flight to their dream vacation, and they were gathering their…
I spent two hours the other morning struggling to write a single email. I made two different starts. Neither of them felt right. As the deadline for sending it loomed, my frustration and anger rose, further clouding my thinking. My natural instinct in those moments is to bear down. To push harder, forcing the words…
January’s bleak. It’s cold outside. My news feed is depressing. There are no real holidays until Easter, and no days off until Memorial Day. It makes me want to hibernate. But I have some big goals that I want to accomplish this year. I’m creating, growing, and refining my business. I have a kid who…
I am guessing you have some big plans for 2026. You may be aiming to grow your business, launch a new service, or finally land that next-level role. I have been there. In the past, when I wanted to reach a big milestone, I would set aggressive goals—deadlines, targets, the whole bit. And when I…
When I first got married, my wife and I shared one car, and since we worked in the same general direction, we rode to and from the office together every day. It wasn’t long before we noticed a pattern: we frequently found ourselves in a conflict, either during the drive home or right after we…