Last week a friend said, “How is retirement?” I remarked, “I have the cleanest closets in Woodstock.” There is a surreal feel to this moment, because it’s only a moment. I know I will work again, I can feel something emerging and if I can be patient long enough it...
Moment by Moment—practicing the art of Living Forward Home Coming, By Lou Ness My blog has a new home. Actually my blog is returning home, home to the business we started in 2004 and I left in 2010 to take the position of Executive Director at Shelter Care...
Five resume tips to ensure you Do Not get called for an interview Many years ago when I first started out in my career, I was a professional singer. My parents were musicians and I had the opportunity early on to sing with their band. When I was 16 years old, I...
Last week I shared some of the celebrations I had from the previous year. It felt important to go back and review what I had done, how I had done it, and what lessons I learned, before I set out to plan this year. I use the word, “resolutions” because it is the word...
It’s the end of the year and the beginning of a new one and I am a bit dazed to realize it’s already 2015- where has this year gone? It seems so much has happened and the energy and activity, at least in my own life, has been constant. I checked some things off my...
I find myself at the end of the summer wondering what happened to summer. Luckily here in the Midwest of the United States, summer is still here in the form of warm weather. There are no complaints from me- last winter’s cold is still buried in my core, any scene with...
Last Friday I ran my first 5K since October of last year. I ran it on a treadmill in my basement listening to my Ipod. It felt great! As I was running I was thinking about all that has changed over the course of the last few years and how much of it is a direct...
As I took stock of 2013 I was surprised at how much I accomplished, how many barriers I overcame, and how transformation and development continued as a part of my life. I learned for real this one thing – transformation never ends – we are never finished, always on...
Do you ever get the feeling? You know the one. “I’m so tired, I don’t want to, why am I doing this, there is too much to do and not enough time to do it.” Then a sort of panic sets in as you realize just how much you have to do and sometimes self doubt sets in,...
I teach on the topic of change management a lot and many times people equate change to big, life-altering experiences. Sometimes change does occur this way. It reminds me of a tv show I saw recently on HGTV House Hunters International. The person in the...
