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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 [...]

You’ve invested time, money, energy and ego in a business, a project, and a relationship.  You’ve done the best you know how to make it work, but… it hasn’t. I know the feeling – [...]

Can we have 3 minutes? The words ‘Discover Your YIPPEE’ are not resonating with smart, accomplished people.  Since you are one, we need your opinion! Our audience are people who are accomplished [...]

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 [...]

Do you love that feeling of doing for someone else?  Helping a co-worker find information?  Taking soup to an elderly neighbor?  Giving directions to someone who’s lost?  It re-enforces our [...]

This bed is too hard.  This bed is too soft.  But this bed is just right. Recently, I lost an engagement to another consultant.  Never mind that I had mixed emotions about working with the [...]

After couple of rough years – struggles at work, challenges with a child, and an unexpected financial loss, I came across a reference to American monk, Thomas Merton.  He said an essential part [...]

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 [...]