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The Secret to Accountability
The New Year is a great time to talk about accountability. It is a time to dream big and set goals for the coming year. This is the easy part. The hard part if figuring out how to stay accountable to yourself and your goals. There are so many systems out there for organizing your…
Be Great in This Moment
I have been reading the book, “Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything” by BJ Fogg, and he invites everyone to start practicing a new habit first thing every morning. He calls this the “Maui Habit,” and it is really quite simple. After you wake up and put your feet on the ground, you…
The Best Lessons Learned Aren’t Learned in School
Back in 1978, when I was in sixth grade, I had the ideal life–two loving parents, two (mostly) loving sisters, a new 10-speed bike (a recent upgrade from my beloved purple banana seat bike that I had recently outgrown), my own bedroom, and hardly any chores. My dad was executive vice president at one of…
Get Comfortable with Discomfort
The thing about a comfort zone is it is so…comfortable. We know everything about how we should feel and how we should act in a comfort zone. It is easy. It is predictable. It is controllable. It is comfortable. But we do not grow by doing what we already know we can do. We are…
Breaking Bad or Good
I love the idea of word play and how by changing one syllable, a word can mean something entirely different. Take breakout and breakdown for instance. Breakout is such a positive word. It means to separate from the crowd, to take the lead, or to just do something differently from everybody else. Breakdown, on the…
What Masks Are We Wearing?
I have been a student of the Enneagram for a few years now. The Enneagram is an ancient personality typing system that uses nine ways to categorize peoples’ personalities. The general definition of personality is our patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting, but in the book, “The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual…
What’s Wrong with Being Confident?
What do you think of when I say self-confidence? Do you lean into it with a, “Heck yeah—I am good to go. I know who I am, where I am going, and who I’m taking along for the ride?” Or do you shrink away from the concept, and think, “I really need to work on…
The 10% Factor In Decisions
When I was a kid growing up in the ’70s and ’80s, I didn’t really understand that the decisions I made had any consequences. You got up, went to school, played with your friends, did your chores, and life went on. It never occurred to me that I had a choice about whether it was…
Are We In This Together?
When the coronavirus pandemic hit and lockdown started, we heard a lot about togetherness. “We are in this together” was the common refrain of everyone from TV pundits to grocery store clerks, from neighbors to coworkers. I loved all this talk of togetherness because I actually believe in it. We truly are better as a…
