Once Upon A Time, In a Galaxy Not So Far Away…
I was 46 years young and working in a brand new, high-level position that basically required me to create my job description as I went along.
I loved what I was doing, but it meant 70+ hour work weeks, lots of traveling and very little local or national support from my organization.
I was newly remarried after a 20-year marriage and several years...
It’s Day 2 of the Ultimate Blog Challenge and I feel like sharing something I created during the second week of the Prosperity’s Kitchen web reality show I’m competing in. We had to dig deep and create a manifesto for our business., also known as our “Big Why.”
After much soul-searching over the course of that challenge, it came to me that the following is the reason I...
Women in general tend to be hard-wired to please.
I might get some flack for writing that, but from everything I’ve experienced in the 50+ years I’ve been walking this earth, and from all the interviews I’ve done with women across the country and internationally, it’s a widespread phenomenon.
Part cultural, part genetic, part social dictates – women are givers (and that doesn’t mean men don’t give as well, but they tend not...
While working on developing products and services for the coming year, it occurred to me that I needed to ask a number of questions of the women I serve or hope to serve before I can create a workshop, retreat, e-book, or any other product that is spot on. So I began to do just that, and have spent the past couple of months talking with women all across the corporate...
When I first began feeling the rumblings that I wanted to change careers and follow my bliss, I continually chided myself for entertaining such “pie-in-the-sky” thoughts at my age. I was 41.
When I wasn’t sticking pins in my own balloon, I was freaking out about what exactly I’d actually DO for a living if I took the plunge and struck out in...
This week we celebrated World Gratitude Day, which was launched in 1965 at the International East-West Center in Hawaii during a Thanksgiving Dinner hosted by meditation guru Sri Chinmoy. Those in attendance, including delegates and high-ranking officials from more than a dozen countries around the world, pledged to celebrate gratitude and to count blessings from their home country every September 21 following.
In point of fact, I work really hard to be...
Someone asked me the other day why I refuse to refer to the transition that occurs for most career women in midlife as a “crisis.” While it’s true that the word “crisis” means a crucial or decisive point or situation, or a turning point, it also has about it an air of instability and upheaval.
There’s a negative connotation to the word, which perpetuates the stereotype of...
Following a brief conversation earlier this week with a woman I’d known only peripherally during my corporate days, I continued to feel off balance, as if something from my past kept tugging at me, but my mind refused to acknowledge it.
She shared with me that one of her teenage sons had been seriously injured in a car accident several...
Letting go comes in two flavors: “passive letting go” and “active letting go.”
One tastes like plain ol’ vanilla, the other Cherry Garcia: cherry ice cream with whole cherries and mega pieces of dark chocolate. Hmmm, well it’s almost 100 degrees as I write this, and I guess I’m craving a little TLC in the form of some Ben & Jerry’s.
“Passive letting go”...
I hear a lot about turning points and defining moments in the work I do as an executive coach: Those moments when the forces of head and heart come together with crystal clarity and you know that what you’ve been doing, or haven’t been doing, is no longer enough. Often these moments are painful and confusing. But, wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could reach these “a-ha” moments; if you could...
