Mindfulness is on the rise! It’s the darling of mental health improvement, lately. It reduces stress, improves focus, boosts mood, and improves performance. But what if you don’t want to sit and meditate? Does that HAVE to be part of it? Heck, no! You can “do mindfulness” right inside your current life and the only […]
Your Breakthrough Will Happen At Your Growth Edge
So you’ve got this idea, and it’s a goodie. You’ve been trying to get it off the ground for a while and have accumulated all sorts of skills you never expected to along the way. Hey, look at you! Now you know HTML code. Who woulda thunk? Thing is, these new tactics don’t seem to […]
Panic In The Toothbrush Aisle
My toddler was in the shopping cart and my preschooler was next to it. We were ripping through the grocery aisles, determined to make it through in 23 minutes. Everything was carefully planned to avoid the Houdini escape and tomato sauce evisceration that happened last time. It all went awry in the personal care aisle […]
The Billionaire’s Beginner’s Mind
I went to a conference a while back and my mind was blown by what this billionaire said. His words were permission to be completely clueless AND reap benefits from it. Naveen Jain is a billionaire and philanthropist. His company was the first private company to be granted access to fly to the moon and […]
The Future of Peace Depends on This Skill
I’ve been really struggling with this realization lately. A lot of things I assumed to be true about business, love, and life, just aren’t true anymore. Do you get this, too? Get a little torn over completely contradictory things working for you at different times in your life? Or over opposites actually both feeling true? I am […]
Essence Of A Dream
Took the kids camping for one last summer hurrah, with an 18-foot, pop-up tent-trailer…by myself! Feeling pretty pleased over here. This is not the kind of thing that I would have pictured myself doing without a troupe of people, or at least a partner, to help out. It wasn’t easy – towing 2500 pounds, backing […]