Over the next two blogs I’m going to think/talk about our lineage. Specifically, I’m going to look at our inheritance and our legacy. To really oversimplify things, one shapes who we are and the other…
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the importance of special
Why do we want so desperately to be special? Some of us want to be special in a big way – as in famous, or infamous, or to make a big impact in the world….
don’t tell me what to think
The other day I found myself talking to myself – okay, yelling out loud – because I was so angry and frustrated because some email just tipped me over the edge. On the surface, it…
that magical time when we were surrounded
I was talking to a friend from grad school that I hadn’t talked to in a few years. He said something that really stuck with me. There was a time when we were surrounded by…
the disruptive powers of eye contact
I remember eye contact. I remember what it was like in the days before the pandemic, before masks and Zoom calls. I’ve noticed something has changed about my relationship to eye contact since then, too….
CTLS: Clearly, you gotta go with your gut
Sometimes, you just gotta go with your gut, no matter what. Literally. I’ve learned to trust my intuition, even though it takes me in some really unpredictable places. For example, I was working with a…
Setting the tone
I write a lot of emails. I have this habit of just jumping in and getting right down to business. But before I hit send, I try to remember to go back and add something…
Groundhog of ascension
I’m gonna be a mixologist today, because I have a couple of metaphors I just have to mix. It’s Groundhog Day today. Of course, I think about the movie. I can’t help it. It’s become…
Do these pants make my butt look smart?
One of the things that really gets in the way of us being authentic people, leaders, partners, friends is behaving the way we want to look rather than the way we really feel. That sounds…
let me do it myself
“Mommy, let me do it by myself!” That’s okay some of the time. Like, when we are learning to tie our shoes, when we need to practice, or when someone is smothering us. Most of…
