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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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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An Apple for Teacher An apple for teacher…Finley wanted to give her teacher an apple she picked at the orchard.But instead of it being in her backpack the next morning, I found it back on the counter.She had decided not to bring it to her teacher because she was scared that the other kids might
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The Stories We Tell Ourselves I felt my stomach do a slow flip.My heart rate increase.My mind started racing – the thoughts coming in faster and faster.I felt anxiety bust down the door and order the narrator of the destructive stories I tell myself to start telling the:Story of not good enough.Story of will never
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What We Do When No One is Watching It’s what we do when we think no one is watching that matters. Because it is in those moments that your character is seen. It is in those moments that values are lived or hypocrisy comes out to play. We all know of those in our community
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Appreciating the Good We Have I never want to take for granted wearing pajama pants during meetings.But I will.Because humans are remarkably good at adapting, moving forward and chasing things we don’t have instead of appreciating what we do.When the power goes out, when you lose water, you gain appreciation of being able to just
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Leading by Example A team of champions is stronger than a championship team.Just as you want a team of leaders not a team with a leader.This morning I got to witness what it looks like to have a team of champions, led by a coaching staff that understands that leadership is a lifestyle not a
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The Glass is Already Broken “The glass is already broken” is a maxim repeated often in our house.It comes from a story of a zen master who had a prized cup, and while he chose to use it and show it to others, he also repeated to himself “the glass is already broken”, that way,
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