A Shot Of Optimism

We have entered the holiday season.  Thanksgiving leftovers may still be in your fridge, your belt may feel tighter than it did a week ago, and you may not be able to believe Christmas is less [...]

Don’t be bossy! Are you getting too big for your britches? Who do you think you are? Too many of us grow up with messages that discourage our taking the lead in our own lives. We may imagine that [...]

My Aunt Nancy was my first piano teacher.  When she married and moved to another city, I continued my studies with Milchrist Stanworth, the kind but stern Englishwoman married to the minister of [...]

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When I was in college, one of my philosophy professors suggested I should study at Harvard because I saw things in a different way.  In my twenties, my future husband told me I was smart and [...]

Part of my work as a CEO consultant has me flying cross country, and when I do, I have a habit: I always sit in an aisle seat.  I like the aisle because I can move up and down to stretch my legs, [...]

Here in Tennessee it still feels like summer, but in fact, kids have been back in school for a month or even two. When I was growing up, school didn’t start until September, and I remember the [...]

Live Large – The Achiever’s Guide to What’s Next, is the title of my book that will be published by Greenleaf Book Group next spring.  (And you will have a chance to pre-order soon!) If you’ve [...]

A few weeks ago I went to Vermont to work with the amazing company Mama Sezz.  Soon they will be shipping delicious, hearty, ready to eat plant–based meals to customers all over the northeast. [...]

If you are like millions of people around the world, you have at least peeked at the Olympic games in Rio this week – whether it be the astonishing Americans Katy Ledecky and Michael Phelps in [...]