When It’s Over
This month, as you know, we are focusing on choices. We've looked at what it means to give vs. teach, we've weighed cost against value, and we've taken stock of...
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Choosing Kindness
Last Christmas two of my MOST favorite people in the world gifted me this Page-A-Day desk calendar. Reading each day's sentiment has become part of the daily breakfast routine in our...
Fear vs. Fact
I might be biased, but I really do believe I have the greatest clients out there. Learning from my clients is probably the best part of my job as a...
Cost vs Worth
This past Monday, July 4th, many of us here in the United States celebrated the federal holiday of Independence Day. A day that commemorates the 1776 adoption of the Declaration of...
Giving or Teaching
Most of you are probably familiar with some version of the proverb: "Give a person a fish and they will eat for a day. Teach a person to fish and...
Do You Overhelp?
I was told the other day that I was "being an over-helper". Really? An over-helper? Yup. My 8-year-old told me in no uncertain terms that he didn't need me jumping...
Take the Spotlight
This month we're focusing on breaking some of our more common bad habits and possibly pushing ourselves out of our comfort zones. Last week we talked about the bad habit we have...
Your Advice is Bad
A ROUSING WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST THOUGHT PARTNERS THE AWESOME ATTENDEES FROM THE2022 CALA SPRING CONFERENCE & TRADE SHOW One of my favorite "work" books, The Advice Trap, written by Michael Bungay Stanier,...
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
Happy June, Thought Partners!Just typing that salutation had my eyes bugging through my readers, as fashionable as the pair I'm wearing happens to be. How on earth is it June already?I can't...
Will & Grace
Will & Grace. One of my all-time favorite shows.At its core, it was innovative and funny, depicted unconditional friendship, and blazed a new path on network television that took courage and risk. Will &...
