Did you ever notice how quickly people become unmotivated? We get excited about a project, vacation or goal and once it’s completed or finished, the anticipation and enthusiasm drain away and it’s easy to feel flat. I noticed this years ago when I was...
For years I’ve been doing this interesting little class exercise, and as I’m teaching a two-day class in Dallas this week I was reminded once again of how telling it is. Here’s what happens. I pair people up and one person turns to face a partner. The partner is...
Did you know, according to the EY Belonging Barometer, 40 percent of employees surveyed reported feeling isolated at work? And, since we spend around one third of our lives at work, it makes sense people want a sense of belonging. A study from the Center for Talent...
While enjoying the boardwalk over a manmade lake where I was working recently, I closed my eyes, stood in the middle of the boardwalk, inhaled the fragrant air, felt the sunshine on my face, and almost had a head-on collision with a runner who didn’t expect...
Isn’t it interesting how often we know there’s something more we want to do in our lives or plan to do sometime in the future, but it never seems to happen. It’s always out there in the future, waiting to be actualized.Novelist George Eliot reminded us “It’s never too...
She was absolutely wrong regarding when we were having our phone meeting (I went back and doublechecked) and it took all my control not to send her an email to prove it. My ego was begging me to showher I was right. And there’s this person in my life who has radically...
