If My Cat Can Do It, Anyone Can

I was thinking about holding grudges the other day when I watched one of my puppies put the entire head of my cat in his mouth. They were both playing but I yelled, fearful his over-zealous personality might end in disaster. The cat wasn’t very happy about it either....

Stepping into Others’ Shoes

Here I am stepping into some pretty big shoes/clogs at a tourist site in the Netherlands. And this picture seemed to fit what I’m talking about here, stepping into the shoes–and perspective–of someone else. I recall once asking everyone in a class I was...

Measuring the Positive!

My daughter, grandson and I just returned from a trip to Europe, and while there we stayed in a wonderful hotel in Brussels. What I found (and find) interesting, is how hotels asked us what we were unhappy about, what could they have improved upon. Well immediately...

It Always Comes Back to Value

I just finished speaking to an amazing group of people at Pabco Products, in Rancho Cordova, CA, and in this two-day class there was a lot of discussion centered around subconscious discrimination based on perception. Do tattoos mean savvy and creative or...

Remember to Put First Things First

Years ago, my closest friend, Patricia, ended up with stage four cancer and I knew I needed to go see her. We had become close friends when we both lived in Manhattan, and now I was more than a thousand miles away and so busy with work, that even though I called her...

Consider the Source

Consider the source, was something I grew up hearing. I can’t exactly remember the context now, but those words came barreling back to me recently when I was teaching a class for the University of Florida’s workforce development. I had 45 women in a class on...