Realizing a Vision
Click here to read this post & the comments on the web. *** If you are an artist struggling to uncover your artistic voice, an entrepreneur working to differentiate yourself, a scholar hoping to make a mark on your field, or an employee trying to stand out in your organization – you are probably occupied, [...]
Here’s Part 2 of my chat with Whitney Johnson. (Read Part 1 here). TARA: You also talk about disrupting yourself. What does that mean and what has it looked like in your life? WHITNEY: Disruptive innovation is actually a term of art that was coined by Clayton Christensen at the Harvard Business School with whom [...]
I was sitting outside at a pool party chatting with a woman from Switzerland — soft-spoken, impassioned, about 80. Her husband of 50 years, she explained to me, had died seven years before. She’d played a very traditional “wife” role for five decades, but when he died, she had to learn to live independently. She [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about what we learn in school – not the facts we memorize, but the message we absorb about what will earn us gold stars, what will bring success. In school we are taught to please the teacher, but to do anything significant as adults we have to be comfortable with [...]
So you are working on speaking up more. Or you are dreaming about launching that new business, or nonprofit, or artistic venture. Or you are just trying to be more of your real deal self and share what is on your mind. In some way, you are fighting the everyday fight to step into [...]
This is your time. Your time to say what you have kept silent. Your time to ask your big questions without apology. Your time to shine like a blazing comet, whether they like it or not. Your time to believe what your heart tells you: that this world could be very different. Your [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
