My earlier blog on persistence talked about how to press into your life strategy despite the negative voices telling you that you are not enough – not good enough, smart enough, credentialed
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It takes energy to lead. For the past two weeks we’ve been talking about nurturing, which comes naturally but which is impossible if our cup is empty. We have to cultivate a
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A music professor in college told Chris Tomlin that he’d never amount to anything in music. I remember the time my husband and I went to see him for the first time
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I often wake up with a deluge of mental flotsam in my head – memories of conversations I’d rather redo or situations I’d like to rewrite. There’s a virtual slideshow of grief
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Do you remember using the centrifuge in high school chemistry? It’s in physical force of spinning at a high velocity separates compounds in a mixture. When I was in high school, we played
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When the kids were little and my husband dreamed of owning a boat, he would take them to Bass Pro Shops and let them run around inside the boats on display, pretending
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I’ve spent 25+ years leading from the middle of organizations, from boutique to global. My training experience includes some graduate education and some excellent leadership development research, but that’s not where I
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How do you choose a coach? I’m convinced it’s all about the shoes. If you like my shoes, you’ll probably pick me as a coach (even the guys, I promise) because shoes
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Have you ever driven a high performance race car in second gear for a little too long? What happens? You can hear the engine straining. That car was not built to coast
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Part of the well-being-as-strategy equation is something we would rather not talk about – mental illness. My mother was in and out of mental institutions, so the term conjures mental images from
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