“I don’t know.” was one of the phrases I previously feared using the most. Now I embrace it. What did I used to think “I don’t know.” said about me? I was uninformed. I was unprepared. I wasn’t as good as someone else. I was vulnerable and weak. …
Bucket Management
“I need to change everything.” This is the answer I get most often from my clients when asked what they’d like to focus on first in our coaching or organizing partnership. But, change takes focus and we can’t focus on everything at the same time, right? One of …
Old Dog, New Tricks
How often have we heard the phrase “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” Thirty years ago neural researchers would have sworn that mental development ended in your twenties. The prevailing theory was that “the brain simply didn’t undergo any significant change in capacity after late adolescence” …
Are you working with boulders or pebbles?
Things can be so dog-gone overwhelming sometimes, can’t they? I worked with a couple clients last week that were paralyzed by their “to do” lists. The lists were so long and the projects were so daunting that the default action was inaction. They were trying to work with …
Are you listening?
Yesterday was a day full of observation and personal enlightenment. I listened to an Oprah SuperSoul podcast with Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist monk, author and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Although the entire podcast was extremely interesting, at 23 minutes in, the term “compassionate listening” comes up. This …
Energy Management vs Time Management
“I just don’t have time to . . . . . “ Go ahead, fill in the blank. Ever said that? I’ll be you have. I know I have. But is it time we don’t have or energy? If we managed our energy better, would our time management …
Smell the flowers . . . if you can find them.
Photo: Ales Krivec Spring. It’s refreshing. Flowers are blooming. Birds are singing. Life is magical . . . if it weren’t for all that dog-gone Spring Cleaning guilt. Clean the carpets. Clean the windows. Clean the garage. Clear out the clutter. One of the quickest ways to give …
Balance: Self Value vs Stuff Value
Balance is a tricky thing. Too much of one thing tips the scales in the other direction and we get totally out of balance. But balance is not just about stuff vs space (although stuff vs space is a huge issue for a lot of people). For some …
Step five. Step three. Step one. Nope.
I watched a sitcom the other day where one of the characters introduced the family to her new dog. The look of confusion on their faces indicated having a dog made absolutely no sense. But then she explained: Step 5: She had a dog because . . . …
Salma Hayek Pinault: “I’m very hard on myself . . . “
I recently listened to Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations podcast with Salma Hayek Pinault. Although the podcast was titled “More to Say About Harvey Weinstein,” I found the podcast had next to nothing to do with Mr. Weinstein but more about kindness, not only for others but for ourselves. During …