Mark Twain once said that New Year’s Day was “the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week, you can begin paving hell with them as usual.” I don’t know how many people began laying concrete the first week of January. What I do know is that by the end of January, [...]
The other day, a woman I had just met asked me what I did for a living. (The first question everyone in DC asks.) I told her I was a life coach. The blank expression on her face was an indication that I needed to qualify my answer. (Something I’ve gotten used to doing.) In [...]
12 Acts for Becoming Fearless at Work and in Life by Margie Warrell ( McGraw Hill, 2009). Margie Warrell, an internationally known and highly respected executive and life coach, speaker and writer, has gifted us all with this wonderful book that is both deeply enlightening and amazingly inspiring. It is a “ must read” for anyone [...]
Watch this short yet truly terrific video by internationally known and highly respected coach Michael Bungay Sayer, and see if you’re not smiling by the time it’s over! http://www.eightprinciples.com
Did you ever think of stress as being habit-forming? Well, it is. In fact, the habitual qualities of stress are why some people thrive on stress to the point of abusing it while others find it difficult to prevent it or eliminate it from their lives. However, whether you misuse it or can’t seem to [...]
A young woman moves to another city where she plans to attend law school. A 35-year old man learns that the firm he works for is downsizing. A middle-aged woman becomes a widow after being married for 27 years. What do all these people have in common? If you answered that all three people [...]
Goodness knows I’ve made many changes in my life over the past several years but none was the result of any New Year’s resolution. I gave up making New Year’s Resolutions a long time ago because, although they always seemed like a good idea at the time, most of my resolutions never took flight. Moreover, [...]
