What’s Holding You Back?

LEAP:  (Verb) – Jump or spring a long way to a great height or with great force Leap.  Just the word sounds dangerous. What image comes to your mind when you think about a leap?  Since I’m a [...]

If I could just do what I’m good at I could make more money, be more productive, improve morale around me and be on the road to saying YIPPEE about what I do!! Are you in a career you love, but [...]

Have you ever found yourself wishing you had a different seat at a party?  A different colleague for a project at work?  A different companion on the eight-hour flight home?  What if at that [...]

I’m a mapmaker. In order to lead you to your yippee, I make you a map.  I tend to start mapping your life and your possibilities as soon as I meet you. The Jane Pauley Show just asked me to [...]

You just started a job with a new company, you just signed up for a class with people you never met before, you moved to a new neighborhood, you are standing at the new CEO’s cocktail party and [...]

Verb Isolate or hide away (someone or something): “the artist sequestered himself in his studio for two years”. Have you sequestered your Yippee? What you want to do may be right in [...]

The day after Valentine’s Day, a 50-meter meteorite skimmed past the earth, closer than any other in history.  A shock wave, the people in Russian called it.  Reading about the 1200 injured, the [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about showing up for your talent.  A good friend of mine called to tell me how much she liked the post, but she continued to observe that she was not showing [...]

“But my work is not who I am and frankly I’m not willing to put in the hours like my friends Beth and Ed for something that doesn’t represent my essence.”  Sarah, a pretty thirty-something is [...]

Pat pulled open the file drawer in her bedroom.  Ten manila folders were hanging there, each neatly labeled with the names of the Girl Scout badges we were working on: Cooking, Adventurer, [...]