What’s Holding You Back?

  We are all faced with painful decisions and onerous projects – sometimes they are big (terminating an employee, moving your company out of state) and sometimes they are smaller [...]

Do you long for the job, the partner, the house, the whatever that’s “just right”? The other night when I was reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears to my grandson, I realized how early the [...]

Unless you have a meditation practice, you might think you don’t have one.  We generally associate mantras and meditation.  In Hinduism a mantra is a word or sound you repeat like a prayer.  In [...]

Have you ever “suffered in silence” with: A project that was going to miss a deadline? Planning an ambitious social event that became overwhelming? A family responsibility that was derailing your [...]

We all know people who make it look easy: the gifted presenter; the decisive leader; the calm, steady manager; the confident networker.  You would think they were born with the charisma and [...]

The Wright Brothers failed and failed and failed to get their early aircrafts sustainably airborne.  Edison successfully discovered 1000 ways NOT to make a light bulb, Einstein failed half his [...]

We live in a fix-it culture.  Advertising, educators, the web all seem to be sending out the same subliminal message: there’s something wrong with you, and you need to fix it. If you tend to pay [...]

Lauren Bacon (LaurenBacon.com) and Elizabeth Crook answer a question from one of Lauren’s readers about how to decide when it’s time to step away from the comforts of a corporate job, [...]

Vows are a good thing, right?  We make them to each other at the altar, we vow to be good, to never eat another fudge brownie again, we vow to be caring mothers, good friends, we vow to be honest [...]

Most of us are constantly looking for the Yes!!  We want success, a great career, enough money to be comfortable and enough time-off to have joy in our lives. We want the YES . . . Yes! I will [...]