She was just so exhausting that by the time the weekend was over my daughter and I just wanted quiet and solitude. My daughter turned to me after we’d left her and said, “Now do you see why I think you’re so pushy.” What she was talking about was my style in DISC; I’m...
When I read these lines, it reminds me of how often in the past I used to go around in a half-awake stupor, doing what I had to do just to get through the day. And what a waste of precious time it was; I wasn’t brave or confident enough to see what mattered to me, and...
“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” Carl Jung Author Chris Voss, in his great book Never Split the Difference, talks about his favorite F word: Fair. He explains companies can often use it in negative, manipulative...
Don’t be tempted to give away your happiness and joy this Thanksgiving by being upset with anything, regardless of what is happening around you. If you start to get frustrated with the way other people drive, go through security at an airport, talk in a...
When I taught at Microsoft years ago, I remember being surprised to hear again and again from the group I was teaching that they were being encouraged to fail. Not purposely, but to take chances, take risks, and realize failure was a necessary step toward...
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right” Henry Ford We’ve all read that quote from Henry Ford, and we’ve all heard story after story of people who believed they could, or couldn’t do something, and proved their beliefs were reality....
