Making Personal Change
Let’s say, you go to Target. For $29.99, you buy the new Swiffy-Swaffy, an automated device that can suck up dust through your house and polish your counter tops. Great. Great as long as it’s sucking up dust and polishing countertops. But let’s say you look over and it’s sucking up all [...]
Today I wanted to share a post in “Q & A” format. Below is a note I received from a reader, Kim, along with my response. I’ve been in the same challenging spot that Kim was in when she wrote this, and I know many of you will be able to relate too. I gave [...]
Well, that was interesting. Really interesting. Earlier this week I authored one of the Reverb10 writing prompts. It was a privilege to craft a prompt that hundreds of people wrote about. This was my prompt: Achieve. What’s the thing you most want to achieve next year? How do you imagine you’ll feel [...]
I’m totally delighted to be a part of Reverb10, a project conceived by the fabulous Gwen Bell, and being carried out by the remarkable team of Gwen, Kaileen, and Cali. Every day during the month of December, Reverb10 offers a writing prompt to help you reflect on 2010 and dream up your 2011. About [...]
News flash: Join me for Living Your Brilliance: Quieting Your Inner Critic & Reclaiming the Driver’s Seat in Your Work and Life, a virtual workshop January 12 & 26th. If you want to live your brilliance fully in 2011, you don’t want to miss this. Click here to learn more!. There’s this interesting [...]
Remember “the dial,” from last week? One important clarification: the dial is not about making your goals “bigger” in the eyes of the world. It’s not about pumping up the grandiosity of your dreams. It’s about making your vision more wonderful-juicy-too-good-to-be-true…for you. If you want to run a successful small business, the dial is [...]
I remember well the moments when I first began to turn away from my own B+ life. I began to allow room for the truth — the truth that I wasn’t fulfilled by the status quo. That the things I really loved I had long neglected. I began, slowly, scary as it was, to [...]
In my work with coaching clients, I often ask: “What do you want?” What do you want – in this difficult situation? What do you want – in your work? What do you want – for your life? The question can be disorienting. There we are, railing about the annoying person [...]
I recently read these words from Rosabeth Moss Kanter, management expert and Harvard professor, in Harvard Business Review: “Change is a campaign, not a decision…CEOs and senior executives make pronouncements about change all the time, and then launch programs that get ignored. To change behavior requires a campaign, with constant communication, tools and materials, [...]
Don’t be greedy with the universe, she said to me. But she didn’t say it in the mean way. She didn’t say don’t dream big, don’t want things, don’t think you deserve. She meant: look at your life and trust it. Notice how you have forever been given what you need. Notice [...]
