Depending on What you Focus On #99 My friend Cindy is a master gardener. I am not. I appreciate great landscaping, though I don’t find it gratifying to do the maintenance, nor do I have the vision for the outdoors in the way she does. When we moved into a home with land, I had… View Article
Will You Hang in There? #98 Puzzles. They are great activities if you want time together with opportunity to laugh, talk or sit in silence working while being together. People love or hate them. I love them. We found a particularly difficult puzzle while in Iceland, and are as a family challenged to complete it…. View Article
You Can Stay Home for That #97 Today was a wonderful, unique surprise. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, we’re doing a family vacation with a smorgasbord of events we’ve chosen from each of our family member’s lists. With our daily event(s), we also include lake time and relaxation. With a forecast of rain almost… View Article
A Skill We All Need to Master #96 We’re on a staycation with family this week. It’s terrific. Our process to create the week and events we’ll attend has been as fun as the beginning of the fun. We are grateful to have lake fun every day, but beyond that we wanted to create an… View Article
Living in Between #95 It’s challenging (HELL) to be in limbo. I struggle with it. There is no “there.” Life keeps happening and there are infinite twists, turns and unexpected opportunities. I don’t like that. I’m a control freak. I like to believe I am in charge and can set the course of all that… View Article
The Only Thing Between You and Bliss #94 When things change it opens the space. Space in your mind, your environment, your beliefs and your possibilities. You can focus on what you’re losing, what’s going away, how “hard” it will be or what you don’t like about the changes. You can also focus on what… View Article
Not Today #93 When you get clear on things you say “yess” and “no” better. Historically, I’ve not been good at saying “no.” My company is named “YESS!” which explains a lot. It’s been an issue. The good news is, I have a great team who strongly suggested I learn to say “no” more frequently… View Article
Visionaries Get a Bad Rap #92 Visionaries get a bad rap. On one hand, they are hyper focused at times and then also appear scattered and unfocused. They don’t follow through – except when and where it counts. They are great starters, not always great finishers. They are inspirational, influential, and intense. They are the… View Article
No Dread Necessary #91 When you have something to do and it’s not on your list of favorites (or you even dread it, like I did moving this weekend) how do you make it more motivating to get it done? Hire it out if you can afford it. There’s so much you can delegate these… View Article
Talent is Hard to Find #90 Only 7% of your communication is the words you choose, yet we spend our time crafting the perfect words for our presentations, pitches and difficult conversations. Don’t get me wrong, the words are important. They’re just not as important as we make them. 93% of what matters is not… View Article
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