Today I’m working from our local swimming hole, a sweet little place called Troll Beach. It’s a sandy bottom pool filled with aquatic water slides and obstacle courses for the kids to burn energy. I get to sit in the lovely little pavilion on my laptop while my son and his friend swim. As I’ve […]
I spent the past five days at an intense, amazing National Speakers Association conference called Influence 17. While there, we had 15-16 hour days of absorbing knowledge from experts and people one step farther down the path from where we are. It was the perfect collision of too many good things, all competing for my […]
This week finds me on the road again. This time, I’m traveling to attend a conference, not speak at one. It’s a nice break, but it creates a few challenges. The one that’s perhaps the most challenging (and maybe even most silly), is that I’m staying with a friend and her folks without a car. […]
This week I led a group of non-profit participants through a short-time management course. We talked
about what every group does – we have way too much to do and too little time to do it.
The expectations of human capacity in the work world continues to grow while our minds and bodies
scream, “I can’t do any more!” So what did we talk about?
We all want to know our lives matter. We all long for purpose. In corporate America, this translates into our vision and mission. There’s a great Bible verse that says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” When we don’t realize how what we do makes a difference, we lose hope. We perish. The […]
In the words of George Jefferson from the television show, The Jeffersons, “Well we’re movin on up, to the east side. To a deluxe apartment in the sky. Movin on up, to the east side. We finally got a piece of the pie.” That’s a generational throwback for you from the mid-70s, and it’s a […]
Goodness knows we all face awkward scenarios. Once I had a gentleman pass out in one of my classes. Like faint, hit his head on the door, then the floor kind of falling. We got him medical attention and he ultimately rejoined the group later that day. As he returned to the class, you could […]
I had a really amazing opportunity come up this week. This opportunity will look fantastic on my accomplishments and will widen the door to my national work platform. Now that sounds impressive, however, just because that’s what success looks like for me, doesn’t mean that if you don’t do national work you are unsuccessful. We […]
A friend posted this fantastic article this week called, “How I knew when saying yes was hurting my productivity and worse.” As I read it, I was struck by two things: this sounds easy and it’s really not that easy. And before I take a contrary stand to some of the article’s message, it’s really […]
We had a delightful family visit over several days this past weekend. On Sunday afternoon, as we enjoyed the rare sunshine and warmth of spring, we found ourselves discussing family history. We talked that no matter how mature we are, there’s long-term responses to expected family reactions. The same is true for many of us […]
