What’s Holding You Back?

A friend and her husband are looking to sell their house, find a lot and build a new home.  Here in Nashville we are experiencing a real estate expansion, and she was having trouble figuring out [...]

One of the most useful tools you can use for your life and your business is reframing. Canadian-born Lila Scott, a brilliant psychoanalyst and mentor, first exposed me to the idea of reframing [...]

I’ve been a member of a professional group for a number of years.  Yet in spite of my tenure, I’ve held myself back.  Oh there were lots of good reasons at that time, what they were doesn’t [...]

Do you remember your freshman year in college?  Freshly arrived from being at the top of the heap in your local high school, you may have soon realized that your status had changed dramatically. [...]

You may have heard these words from Stephen Covey in his classic book The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, or from a friend or mentor.  But it’s so easy to forget!  And here’s why: We fall [...]

How could this have happened?  How can he be ahead of me?  He was so far behind, and now he’s caught up and passed me? I feel terrible.  I am a failure.  Maybe I should just give up. Have these [...]

In the backseat pocket a book title caught my eye:  A Smart Girl’s Guide to Knowing What to Say (by Patti Kelley Criswell and Angela Martini).  Curious and perhaps concerned that my [...]

Easter weekend my grandchildren came to visit.  It was a glorious spring weekend, trees sprouting tender greens, redbuds in pink and tulips of every color imaginable from palest yellow to deep [...]

I’m so angry I just want to tell him off… can you believe he had the nerve to… after all I’ve done… how could he…? Righteous indignation.  There’s nothing like it.  It gives us permission to [...]

I have a drawer, and I bet you do too.  It may be in your kitchen, desk, toolbox or dresser.  That space you mean to clean out and/or organize, but never quite get around to it.  Even you [...]