Earth Day Lessons
A friend, Alli Polin, commented recently, “We think transitions are endings but they’re really what the word is all about… movement including the time in between landings.” That stuck with me for some reason so I explored it a little further, that phrase “the time in between landings” being particularly resonant. Here was my
0TRANSITION
Transitions from one stage to another can be challenging for a variety of reasons. Each of us differs in how we either plan for those or how we deal with them as they appear, whether on the horizon or suddenly in front of us. Two colleagues mentioned recently that they were in a transition mode
0Whitney Johnson & WD40
Whitney Johnson has a new book out called “Build an A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve.” She starts out her current newsletter to promote her book with a story about WD 40, the recognizable brand of lubricant in the yellow and blue can. I thought it had been around
0AUTHENTIC
Numerous conversations have been swirling around recently about “authentic” with what’s real and what’s fake. Authentic means genuine, real, honest, transparent, reliable, trustworthy and what people often refer to as “up front.” In most circles that is to be preferred over “down low”, evasive, secretive, coy, shifty and misleading. Some of these recent conversations have
0LIFE IS FRAGILE, UNPREDICTABLE
About six years ago I wrote the following article based on a letter to a friend of mine who was about to give a commencement speech. For those us who have done that on more than a few occasions, we know that it’s hard to come up with something that’s worth listening to at a
0SCHOOLS: TARGETS OR SOLUTIONS?
As of this writing, March 22, 2018, there have been 18 school shootings since the beginning of the year. This is Day 81 which means one shooter every 4.5 days has used a school as the object of what seems like unresolved and untreated anger, or frustration, and/or isolation. We say that the mental health
0PERSEVERANCE AND PATIENCE
I know that perseverance pays off, and while I believe that, I must add, eventually. When I learned to connect patience with perseverance, I found that I had a much better chance of the payoff. Here’s an excerpt from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. “We are, quite naturally, impatient in everything to reach the end without
0WOMEN WHO INSPIRED
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY TRIBUTE The following women, and many more, have contributed significantly to my life and my work and without them I would not be who I am or where I am today. It is with deep and lasting gratitude that I celebrate these women and their inspiring lives that remain as models for
0D.Q. in 3-D
There is a lot of talk about emotional intelligence, popularized by Daniel Goleman in his book, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than I.Q. If you have not heard of D.Q. or “Desire Quotient” consider this. Stephen Covey, has four “Q’s” which are all described as intelligence – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. I
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