Everything Else Is Out Of My Control Every single day we are faced with the choice of getting upset about things outside of our control.And most of the time we choose to get upset.Because we live with the illusion of control. We grow up believing that if we do x, y and z – we’ll […]
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What Else Have I Forgotten That I Love? I have a question for you- what is something you used to love doing that you no longer do- and how will you reconnect with it this year?I used to bake daily, but as my business has shifted over the last few years, and my time is
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Whatever Comes My Way To you this may just look like a lot of Amazon boxes.And you wouldn’t be wrong.But I know what’s inside of them, so instead of boxes I see new ninja courses, rock climbing holds, archery targets, team building games, big spinning swings, surfer standing swings, rainbow cargo net bridge, rickety balance
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We Have The Opportunity Every Day To Live My 12yr old will send me sunrise photos from the bus window when they drive by the lake.Yesterday, as we drove home from her musical rehearsal, I got to share the sunsetting on the opposite side of the lake with her.As I hummed the Fiddler on the
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On Being Imperfect I screwed up today. I missed a meeting with an important person in the organization I am really excited to be working with this year as a leadership and team building consultant/coach. No excuses, I made a mistake and missed it. Immediately after that missed meeting, I had another meeting where no
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Tell Me More These are the 3 words we need to say when someone comes to us with a problem:“Tell me more.”It’s tempting to want to jump in and start giving advice, fixing, and filling in our own story- but the truth is, we always need more information. And by saying, “tell me more”, you
Finding Moments of Silly and Connection I know how ridiculous I look to anyone who passes by my minivan before I speak at a conference or event, and I’m okay with it.Because my pretalk ritual is to put Lose Yourself by Eminem on and keep up lyric by lyric with the volume blasting. And then
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Here’s To Being Wanted, Not Needed This morning I wasn’t needed, and it was great. Despite having made myself throw up over 20,000 times in my life- I laid awake for hours last night determined to not give into the nausea that was steadily growing. But soon I was seeking relief on the cold bathroom
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Our “Yes Day” The truth behind our “Yes Day”. I was going to write about how we did a “Yes Day” weekend for the girls, where they got to choose activities that we would say yes to. I was going to write about how important it is to quiet the reflex to say “we don’t
How Do You Want To Win? I risked embarrassing my 7th grade daughter last night at the Cross Country meet in front of her teammates.But it was a risk I was willing to take for the sake of leadership.Because leadership is a lifestyle, not a title. There is no age requirement or level of education
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