Nothing like moving a few pieces of furniture around to shift perspective. My office was starting to feel stagnant so Sunday I came in to reevaluate. I moved my desk and the shelves. Even the printer table found a new home. It was like a magic trick. My office...
I'm playing with a new habit these days: The JUST SAY NO habit. It's an experiment to build up my "No" muscle which has atrophied over the past 18 months. Like the rest of the world, I didn't have much to say no to (aside from Netflix and zoom cocktails). Now I'm...
How’s your newly unmasked life going? At the beginning of the pandemic, it took us more than a minute to figure out how to communicate beyond our masks. We learned to speak up and enunciate. We got “smizing” down. On the flip side, masks offered us a place to...
When people ask me how I'm doing lately, my response is: "I'm changing gears." With life opening up at what feels like an exponential rate, some days I'm barely keeping up. It feels like the time I learned how to drive stick on the Chicago Speedway. I had under a...
Happy Birthday to me! This month as I turn 50, I've been reflecting more than usual on what's important to me. This includes permission to feel the full range of human emotions and allow them to guide us into action that supports our values and the impact we want...
Have you ever grown an amaryllis from scratch? For Christmas my friend Gabrielle gave me an amaryllis bulb. You just sit it on some water and stones in a glass jar. Apparently it’s a no brainer to get this bulb to bloom. However, having no amaryllis experience on...
Whether you landed that big assignment or doubled your billings, it really doesn’t matter. What matters now is that you take an honest look at what DID happen. What are you most proud of? What frustrated you? What were your top 3 accomplishments? What were your 3 biggest disappointments?
Blocking time into focused chunks makes our brains happy. When our brains are happy, they work better. When the brain works better, we’re more productive and more importantly, productivity becomes easy and fun.
