Perfection = overrated waste of effort
I couldn’t believe it. She unmade my side of the bed because I didn’t do it right. My house guest was having problems with her shoulder. She said doing simple things like making up a bed aggravated her discomfort. I volunteered to help, and she agreed. Her...
Stuck in a lousy job? Look inward!
Taylor sits in her 6 x 8 cubicle waiting for the next IT ticket to come her way and suddenly feels the walls closing in around her. She feels like she’s suffocating. She’s only a few seconds away from a panic attack, her third this month. In her mind, it’s all...
Lead with your brains, not your looks
Maybe she was just a bot looking to rack up a high follower count. That’s what I hope to be the case. Why? Because every picture on her social media account emphasized one of her body parts. Her parts were lovely, but skin wrinkles. Boobs and bums sag. So, this...
31 flavors of humility
Wouldn’t it be lovely if humility smelled like warm chocolate chip cookies so we could easily find ours when we lost it? A small group of us were sharing comeuppance stories—times when we’d gotten too big for our britches and had taken a big fall from...
Being a leader may mean being a salesperson
Whether he or she works as a CEO, a coach, or any job that requires motivating others, a great leader is at heart a good salesperson. Why? Because, if an organization’s leadership isn’t constantly persuading the rest of the team to buy into an idea or a...
When discord is everywhere
There’s that old saying that two things in life are inevitable—death and taxes. I think several other items can be added to that list, with one of them being conflict. Conflict is that uncomfortable, sometimes nasty stuff that happens when we feel...
