The vacation, the weekend, the well-deserved break is on the horizon. You can almost touch it. What do you do now? Free yourself to enjoy time off by putting things in order before you leave. I’m about to take a week off (hooray!). So today and this weekend I’ll be buckling down and working my...
This is the first summer in decades I’m not going to make it to the beach. It’s not the end of the world since I prefer winter beaches to summer hot beaches anyway, but it makes me a little sad because the beach is… the beach! So I’m developing a summer survival strategy I thought I’d share. About...
Have you ever achieved perfect balance at high speed? Centering isn’t about achieving balance – it’s about keeping it. I used to love to make pottery. This summer while packing for my impending move I discovered my old pottery wheel, and along with it a rather floppy pot that was my first...
Are you squandering your rights? In a free society, within the limits of the law, any prison you find yourself in was made by you. Other people might have handed you the bricks, but you put them in place and applied the mortar. These kinds of prisons are built of beliefs – about ourselves, others...
When someone blows up at you, is your first thought, “What did I do?” or is it “What’s with them?” Relationships always take two. Give others responsibility for their half and take the other half for yourself. Only your half. This week someone blew up at me unexpectedly. After the fact I...
Press send too quickly. React with your gut. Let your buttons get punched. Speak without thinking. Do something hurtful. Oops. It's not what you say or do but how you are with the possibility of mistakes that matters. Everyone says and does things they regret, sometimes the moment they say...
Monday feels like the edge of a cliff this week and I’m already falling into the abyss of my calendar. It’s time to trim my wings so I can fly. #1 to go – extraneous information. Sometimes we just have to trust that the information that needs to get to us will find us somehow. The only way to do...
I’m putting my house of 23 years up for sale this week. The family and I are packing up and right sizing for our last summer before we’re part time empty-nesters. (A close family, we anticipate holiday nests stuffed full for years to come.) It feels like the end of the world in some ways as we...
Yesterday…. I turned older. Maybe wiser, I’m not sure. But older, I’m sure. There’s something fun about trying to stop time for a few minutes once a year and look backwards and forwards through the timeline of my life. I do this on my birthday and on New Years. And I always ask myself, “Am I who I...
Does practice make perfect? No. But that’s not a reason to skip it! Why do we think we should get it right the first time? Without practice, we’d never get feedback and without feedback we’d never know our impact on the world. Without knowing our impact on the world, we could never adjust...
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