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Were you raised hearing the adage:  When life gives you lemons, make lemonade?  It was one of my father’s favorites.  When things didn’t work out the way I hoped, he’d always remind me. But [...]

By the time most of us finish grade school we have already internalized the need to “look good”.   Back in the 80’s ad man Phil Slott is credited with creating the phrase, never let them see you [...]

It started when you were a kid – your dad’s horrible shirt, your mother’s insistence on a curfew, your little brother’s idol worship of your best friend.  And it just kept on – your [...]

Are you impatient to “get there” – the next level, the next promotion, the next pay grade, the next recognition? Are you chasing something you can never quite grab? What if winning means [...]

The job you loved goes away.  The relationship you treasured ends. The money, the status, the stuff evaporates. If you are old enough to read this, you have experienced a loss, an ending, some [...]

  Have you ever been the new kid on the block?  The new person on the job?  A first-time guest at a senior leadership meeting? What did you do? Most people fall into one of two camps: the [...]

Have you ever made a commitment to yourself then broken it? Done something that was less than your best? Made a mess of a relationship? Most of us have gotten off-track somewhere, somehow and we [...]

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 [...]

When I was in my twenties, I’m a Baby Boomer, so it was a different world, I had the notion that when one “grew up”, that life somehow settled down to a predictable “happily ever after” pattern. [...]