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10 Things Everyone Should Do Before Turning 60 Every “decade” birthday is big, but turning 60 somehow feels… bigger. Checking off these goals will make the transition feel a [...]

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. [...]

To understand your personal genius, it is essential to know your value, to know what makes you special. It’s not about what makes you better, it is about what makes you unique. What makes [...]

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 [...]