How do you have your message received? In our sessions, it’s been common for me to remind leaders that people need to hear things seven times to hear it the first time. This is to ensure we’re repeating ourselves as leaders because we all hear things in our own way in our own time. When we’re ready. Only this doesn’t…
What if… What if some of us are the trail blazers; willing to forge a path, push forward when it’s hard, and willing to see a course where there is none? Unwilling to bend or conform, strong, diplomatic enough to build bridges where there were walls, yet tough enough to make a door if the wall remains. We see possibilities…
Doing nothing is something. As a chronic doer, I’ve never been very comfortable doing nothing. I physically need to leave my home/environment to relax, or I’ll find at least a thousand things that need my attention. I understand this is a problem, undoing it is interesting. Enter the pandemic; it’s been a great clarifier on all levels. It’s taken going…
New beginnings are tricky at times. As I’ve aged, I notice my history wants to inform what’s possible to a greater degree than I’d like it to. One perspective offers a fresh start; there’s no script, I can trust fully it’s a new moment, and when I focus on that I am hopeful and optimistic. Possibility and hope live here. …
Vacation. It’s been a lost art for me until this week. We’re on our first vacation in two years and it’s clear to me I’ve lost some skills to do it with ease. As I awakened this morning, a wonderful realization hit my psyche. I don’t have to be anywhere any time soon. What a concept! I’m a morning person,…
I love working with leadership teams. When I realize the privilege I have to create a safe space for them to be vulnerable, open, and honest about their challenges as they lead others, it’s truly humbling. To lead often means you compartmentalize your insecurities to open a space for others to have confidence in an unprecedented future. You catalyze people’s thinking…
Valentine’s Day. Galentine’s Day. S.A.D. Day (Singles Awareness Day). It all commences on February 14th. It’s my friend Cindy’s favorite holiday, and it’s any other day as well. Despite its dark history, we know this day to be marked by flowers, chocolate, and trinkets expressing love for many. Hallmark reinterpreted it from the reinterpretation offered by Chaucer and Shakespeare in…
When someone finds you, pay attention. In a noisy world, it’s easy to dismiss what could be an incredible connection, simply because we’re moving too fast and not present to what’s happening. However, when it’s meant to be (yess, I mean in that woo woo sort of way), you can’t avoid the connection. There is a greater game happening when…
I have a favorite tee shirt. I found it last year and it’s become my theme shirt. It says, “Be YOU, they’ll adjust.” I’ve purchased a few for important people in my life, and whenever I wear it, people comment, stop me, and ask where I got it. I think many of us are fatigued with norms we’ve adopted which…
Sometimes I can’t sleep. Thankfully it’s infrequent enough I’ve been able to manage well around it. In fact, some of my most productive days have begun at 3 or 4 am. What’s clarified in the middle of the night when all is still, is a different connection to the world beyond for me. I feel connected to those important souls…