I went to a conference a while back and my mind was blown by what this billionaire said. His words were permission to be completely clueless AND reap benefits from it. Naveen Jain is a billionaire and philanthropist. His company was the first private company to be granted access to fly to the moon and […]
The Future of Peace Depends on This Skill
I’ve been really struggling with this realization lately. A lot of things I assumed to be true about business, love, and life, just aren’t true anymore. Do you get this, too? Get a little torn over completely contradictory things working for you at different times in your life? Or over opposites actually both feeling true? I am […]
Essence Of A Dream
Took the kids camping for one last summer hurrah, with an 18-foot, pop-up tent-trailer…by myself! Feeling pretty pleased over here. This is not the kind of thing that I would have pictured myself doing without a troupe of people, or at least a partner, to help out. It wasn’t easy – towing 2500 pounds, backing […]
An Amazing Trick For Saying “No” with Grace & Courage
If you’re a natural helper, one of the hardest things to do is knowing when and how to say “no”. Handily, you have a built-in signal for when to say “no”. A sensation of overwhelm is a signal that you’re operating at too high a level. You’re like a car that’s revving too hard. You […]
A Different Kind of Scary
I recently read that courage is like a muscle. It gets stronger when we use it. So true, right? And there’s big business in getting you to flex your courage muscles by doing scary things. Many leadership experiences and mastermind retreats will engage you in something wild and terrifying, because, the idea goes, if you […]
Trading Happiness for Meaning
A funny thing has happened since I left my corporate job. I had thought since I was leaving to pursue a calling closer to my heart that it would translate into feeling happier. I thought that spending more time with my kids, more time coaching, more time writing, would mean that I’d be easily blissed […]
