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Do you have a set of goals you want to achieve? Are you looking for a different way to reach your goals? Life moves so quickly. If things haven’t been working out, then it’s time for a new perspective so you can make the rest of 2019 all that it can be and more....

Laura was busy. REALLY busy. And really productive, too. In addition to working as a vice president at her company, she sat on several boards, was active with local community initiatives, was looking after her elderly dad, and was the executor on her deceased brother’s...

I spent much of my life "crunching" decisions and problems, using mostly logic. Although I'm embarrassed to admit it, I was in my 30s before I realized that most people don't use that process. It took until I was in my 40s to realize that I was rarely aware of what I w...

Have you been working to make a significant change in the world?

Do want want to be more effective in your calling while helping humanity and Earth?

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Growing up in the second half of the 20thcentury, and coming of age in the 70’s and 80’s was both empowering and frustrating. Since my mom owned and operated a successful knitting mill, I grew up with a role model of empowerment and success, and a belief that I could a...

Leadership involves treading on the tightropes of multiple tensions:

• between creating space for creativity while maintaining enough structure to lead to a great result; 

• between fostering innovation and change and still meaningfully honoring history and traditi...

A lot has happened in the two months since my last blog post here. I’ve had to take a sabbatical from blogging, mostly because I have not had the bandwidth and time to write. The most significant reason is that I’ve moved my mother in with me after she had a middle-of-...

The last blog post here was about deepening listening skills and focused on what I label Listening 1.0 to Listening 3.0. I mentioned that while it was a transformational upgrade for many of my clients, and my own goals, some clients (and a couple of my own objectives)...

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been really well trained in listening with my rational mind, aiming to “figure out” the problem or task I’m faced with, and then react with an action or suggested solution to “fix” the “problem” or otherwise make something objectionable...

The horse, Goldi, was eating her feed. I, a confirmed city-dweller, was in Goldi’s pen surrounded by lovely countryside, absent-mindedly petting her. But her attention was held by her bucket of oats and vitamins--not me. Occasionally, she looked up at the horizon, dist...