What is the story we are being told? Over 2,000 years ago Zeno, the founder of Stoicism, commented on the human tendency to speak more than listen.“We have two ears and one mouth, therefore we should listen twice as much as we speak.”We react to the story we tell ourselves, not respond to the story […]
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Don’t smell, inhale! In the mornings I refuse to stop and smell the flowers.I stop and inhale until it suctions around my nose like a bear hug.Noticing the beauty of flowers is great.Smelling the flowers – awesome.Going nose to petal? That’s living.I have one tattoo.Well technically, 2, tattoo #1 is covered up by tattoo #2.
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A band aid won’t fix this We are facing a healthcare crisis – losing nurses and doctors that are needed to keep our communities healthy.Too many organizations/hospitals don’t fund training or address, mindful leadership, emotional intelligence burnout and the impact it has on the mental health of physicians, nurses and staff and on the quality
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This is what kindness looks like I have to share the sight I came up the stairs to after working down in BMK tonight. Finley started having cold symptoms after school. No fever. Negative Covid test. But she knows that I have some important in person workshops and meetings with potential consulting clients and speaking
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I knew that I could do more I was hit with a question I wasn’t expecting during a meeting Friday afternoon.A meeting about the need for leadership training in the financial sector went a different direction when, after I described the community that I live in, I was asked:“Are you concerned about your kids not
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“What the heck are we doing?!” Have you had this happen?When you do something purely on instinct and then your rational/logical brain catches up and yells at you “WHAT THE HECK ARE WE DOING?? ”.Someone captured that very moment a few weeks ago while I was speaking at a conference in Cleveland. And because vulnerability
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On Shifting Perspective What if I’m wrong?What if I’m doing something not because it is the right thing to do, but because I BELIEVE it is the right thing to do?Are you willing to turn around and look at something from another perspective?It is when we refuse to consider the possibility that we could be
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September is Suicide Prevention Month “Don’t be ashamed of needing help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up- so what?”—Marcus Aurelius, Meditation 7.7 The most powerful man in the world, the emperor of Rome at the
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My Humbling Moment I haven’t shared this story with you before…But after being asked to Chair the March of Dimes fundraiser this fall, an organization that is actively working on reducing the racial and income disparity in healthcare for mothers and babies and addressing implicit bias- I felt that it was time to share.When I
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Meeting Our Emotions With Curiosity I felt myself getting pissed off.Part of me wanted to take the anger and run with it.The Stoic in me won out.Not because it caused me to shove down my emotions. That’s not what Stoicism teaches.It won out because I got curious instead of angry.I called Finn over and told
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