I rarely use this forum to rant, but after attending and presenting at an unnamed event recently, I have to get some stuff off my chest. I paid for the opportunity to speak at a holistic trade show based on an esteemed colleague's positive experience. She'd had a...
About once a week I receive an unsolicited request from a business owner or company that finds my blog material compatible with their message--someone who wants to contribute a guest post or insert a link into my text. Mostly, I decline. I'm very protective of YOU,...
I took a significant step in the mischief department. I fired the professional who gave me the assignment. A moment of background for those of you new to this conversation. I had reached an impasse in my business a month or so ago and asked a very successful friend...
I thought I'd open the kimono a bit today and share my own process when I'm working on a big project. What has my attention these days, well, for over a year, really, has been a memoir. It keeps shape-shifting, but it's moving forward, which is the main thing....
Oh, boy! I got the best responses (mainly privately) from you! Great suggestions (see yesterday's comments) and so much inspiration. I did leave the dishes in the sink last night and slept in this morning. This could get dangerous! Today I put a mustache on the...
I just got an assignment from a trusted support person to do something naughty or mischievous on a daily basis. The point of the exercise is to misbehave, act out. Consequences be damned! (Does swearing count?) What's that quote about well-behaved women not making...
Growing up, someone who 'needed help' was looked at sideways. Going to a 'shrink' was ridiculed as even the expression implies. This was all before the days of coaches, support groups, accountability partners, etc. Today, asking for help is a sign of strength....
What you focus on grows. What you measure grows. Truer words could not be spoken when it comes to the heart app on my iPhone. I didn't even know it was there until a few weeks ago when I had lunch with good friends from my Semester at Sea trip who pointed it out...
I know my style by now. I've gotten the timeline for my February retreat chunked out on an Excel spreadsheet. The next step is to convert it into notebook pages so that I'll have a script to operate by. Even though the spreadsheet is thorough, covering the agenda,...
I promised to reveal what happened at my Remarkable Women's Workshop as a result of using my new Visual Explorer kit, the coaching tool I introduced at the event. Magic! First, I asked each woman attending to talk briefly about what challenges lay ahead of her. We...
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a professor at Harvard Business School, once said, "My personal law of management, if not life, is that everything looks like a failure in the middle." Having experienced my own legions of failures in the middle, I've become an expert at...
I let out an audible gasp this morning when I saw the obituary for Michio Kushi, the founder of the Kushi Institute, and a major influence in my life and health. I attended my first macrobiotic conference at Babson College in 2008. Here I was introduced to a...
How busy are you these days? If you're in retail, you're crazed, I'm sure. If you're in a service business...not so much. Everyone is distracted at this time of year--either shopping, feeling guilty about not shopping, worrying about getting it all done or thinking...
When I read that line in her interview with Oprah in the December issue of O Magazine, I almost spit out my hot water and lemon drink. A rich, gorgeous, multimillionaire business phenom, married to Barry Diller questions her level of achievement? Here's the direct...
On Monday evening, September 29, I'm inviting Remarkable Women to answer that exact question. Is it really comfortable in there, or is it a hiding place and cover story that keeps you from what you really want in life? Several years ago I was coaching a...
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