I didn't often read Red Smith's column in the sports section of the NY Times, but on one occasion I was extremely taken by his humility. He wrote something like, "I've been writing about baseball for 30 years, and I think I'm beginning to understand it now."...
I gave my first public talk last night about my trip around the world to a joint audience of Living All the Way and Ladies Who Launch members and guests. The response was thrilling, and the feedback extremely helpful. An experience I shared that was particularly...
Working backward from my departure next Tuesday, I'm figuring out what meals I still need to shop for and prepare, how many more loads of laundry there are to do and which articles of clothing I can safely pack away into storage to make room for my tenant. My...
When I was a kid I thought that to be a grown-up meant knowing how to drive a stick shift car, speaking French and living in a Victorian. I realize these date me, but they represented a worldview that felt like it had my name on it. So did 'sailing around the...
Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Mine was perfection, meaning that it included the people I love (minus one sick grandchild and her parents), amazing food prepared by my chef nephew and my sister (at whose knee his passion was quickened), easy traffic to...
My physical therapist*, that's who! I told my weekly support team that I've been spending five minutes a day crawling around the gym in my building to re-align my back and that it was working beautifully. I've been feeling terrific and wanted to share it with them....
Preparing for my Soul Proprietor Community call recently I included words from Ecclesiastes (aka Simon and Garfunkel's Turn, Turn, Turn) which says, "there is a time to refrain from embracing." We live in such a to-do culture that when things aren't happening fast...
I had a glorious 24 hours with my Mastermind Intensive group Sunday-Monday. We gathered at a member's home the afternoon of the 8th to create vision boards, have a potlluck and reunite after the summer. I was as much a guest as everyone else, basking in the warmth...
I wanted to show a new friend and colleague the entrepreneurial community I recently joined. It was a 10 block walk from where we'd had lunch. After 3 blocks she paused and asked if I would mind if she reneged on the decision to visit In Good Company. The heat was...
When I submitted my first chapter to the editor of my book, Decorating Eggs, I heard back from her with a brief note instructing me only to eliminate the quotation marks I was using to emphasize certain words. That was it. No critique of the writing, simply a...
"I'm killing myself!" "I'm going at breakneck speed." "I'm crazy-busy!" I recognize that these expressions are intended to demonstrate some kind of value in the marketplace, or on the domestic scene, but from the 'taken-out-of-context' perspective, read what these...
I've been in NYC for seven months now and had my first up-close celebrity siting on the subway this morning. I recognized Christopher Palu, one of the finalists from Project Runway- Season 10, a design show I have avidly watched since its inception*. Anyone who...
You never know where inspiration and motivation will strike. For me it was late Friday in a new chiropractor's office staring at a sign on his wall. Under the emboldened saying were the words: "Five Dangerous Words to Say" and above that were the words themselves:...
I've had accountability partners, aka goal buddies, for years. It's what keeps me on track on a daily basis. I also have a Mastermind group that I've been part of for a couple of decades. That's a monthly accountability structure for the bigger things I want to...
Before I post a quote I've heard, I check it out via google for exact wording and reference. This morning, it's been a slippery slope that I am going to shortcut for the sake of getting this online. I heard a quote, attributed to George Bernard Shaw, that hit home...
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