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...

Which Reality Suits You?

Did you see the original Matrix movie, which came out in March 1999? It was about being unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality, which wasn’t reality at all, just an illusion. I remember when I first saw it thinking, well yes, that’s kind of what we are all...

What’s Your Weather Forecast for the Week?

I just finished teaching a two-day leadership class for women this week, and the topic of weather came up. Weather, in the sense that we carry our weather around with us, it’s a manufactured emotion that either buoys us up or keeps us in a state of...