End of Year Post (2017)

End of year post 2017 is coming to a close and, like always, I find myself once again reflecting on the past year.  In many ways this was the best year ever for me personally and professionally.  What makes that so?  Many things, though not the absence of grief. ...
Staying on Track: It’s Harder than You Think

Staying on Track: It’s Harder than You Think

It’s harder than it sounds, “plan your work, work your plan.” Early this week, I was looking over my garden and saw that it was time to prune, weed, and clean up storm debris. Putting on gloves, armed with natural bug spray and wearing long pants, I grabbed my garden...

Don’t You Wish Life Came with a Reset Button?

We can’t undo the past, it’s true. What we can do is make a course correction and hope that it’s enough to get us to a place we want. By life’s reset button, I mean the ability to start over when you make a mistake.  Backtrack in a relationship when misunderstandings...

How to Encourage Learning

Learning is a process involving nurturing, inspiring, and self-discovering. Learning is a voluntary act. We all choose what we learn, even when life and experience provide learning, not everyone takes it in. For example, as a corporate trainer and coach, I know what I...

How Parking Tickets Helped Me Change Habits

I’ve written a lot this year about setting goals, measuring success and eliminating habits that hold you back, replacing them with new ones that support where you are now.  There are so many ways to do this but first you have to know where to start and what to change...