Several years ago, I was driving home from a meeting late at night. I was doing that thing you do when you are finishing a long day, when you play back everything that happened like it’s a movie that you’re watching in your mind. Re-hashing the day’s events when one is tired and semi-emotional is [...]
When I worked regularly with college students, some many each and every one of them would at some point reach a point of stress about their future. It wasn’t always regarding the big looming specter of their upcoming graduation and what they would do for the rest of their life; for some it was about what [...]
As I said last month, starting in 2012 I’m running one guest post a month entitled “Once Upon A Time.” The featured guest poster will tell their story of how they found self leadership in their life. The series is called “Once Upon A Time” because self-leadership, while not a fairy tale, is about people [...]
There’s a phrase in marketing strategy: “Cherchez le creneau.” It means “look for the hole.” You look for the flaw, or weak spot, in your competition. Then you focus your efforts on exposing that flaw to your own maximum potential in your advertising, publicity, branding, putting-yourself-out-there-ness. I know, you don’t normally come here expecting to learn [...]
On a walk this past week, clearing my head from all the eating and shopping and talking and football-game watching, one of my favorite hymns came on my shuffle. My favorite line says: If you tarry ‘till you’re better / You may never come at all The point is that putting off something phenomenal and [...]
If you have time to read any blogs at this time of the year, congratulations. You are more intentional than most people, including possibly Santa Claus. You’re probably also on the Nice list, so well done, you. The interwebs already have about fitty billion blog posts about the final weeks of the year, and I’ve [...]
I’m loving all the updates on stuff you’ve done to make the most of the time you have left in 2011. Way to get busy. Deadlines always make me hustle, too. I was thinking this week about how it feels to know that you need to act on commitments you have previously just been thinking [...]
Just FYI, you have 30 days left to accomplish your New Year’s Resolutions for 2011. 30 more days to lost that weight, write that book, have that conversation, take that risk. 30 days to get it done. How does that feel? Piece of cake? You already did it? Back in June, or even March? I [...]
Yes, it’s me. Just me. No guest poster, no link to a YouTube video, no distractions. My last post- that I wrote, myself,- was June 15. Almost 6 months ago. I have loved each and every guest post that I’ve run since I’ve been here in person. I have such great, smart, witty, and wise [...]
My friend and this week’s guest poster Tara Jones is kind of awesome sauce. One of her many gifts is the ability to take something good and fine and make it stupefyingly tremendous. In about 5 minutes. Every time I hang out with her (which isn’t nearly often enough,) my jaw literally drops at her perspective, her [...]
