Are you a people pleaser? Do you think and do for others before you do things for yourself? Are you a “yes” person, typically always accepting invites or volunteering yourself even when you might not really want to do the activity? Why do you say yes to stuff when you really want to say no? [...]
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. – Zig Ziglar A story is told of how both the hummingbird and the vulture fly over our nation's deserts. What they look for is very different. Vultures only look for and go after dead animals; focusing on [...]
I was recently having dinner with a great friend of mine. I love those great conversations with trusted friends that last for hours over everything you need to catch-up on; family, business, future plans etc. It was such a rich conversation about life. I believe we all need to have those great conversations with awesome [...]
You are not your past. You are what you focus on in the present and how you move ahead. ~Cynthia Bazin I think we all know this, but do we truly LIVE that? Are we doing what makes us happy in life or are there things in life, negative things, that are blocking us from [...]
Five years ago, 16 leaders around the world were strangers. 16 of us met through Social Media: Twitter, G+ and Facebook. We formed friendships that reached around the globe and used social technologies to collaborate. The majority of us have never met in person. Then an absolutely AWESOME thing happened. The 16 of us wrote [...]
One of the things that I realize is that sometimes we waste a lot of time on things that distract our attention from us working on our goals and dreams. Let me ask you a question. When working on a project, do you constantly have things getting in your way of what you REALLY need [...]
It happens to the best of us! At some points in our life, we are going to burn-out or totally get knocked down from something that we felt was going to work out but didn't. Our confidence gets rocked and we feel like all the efforts we put into something was a waste of time. [...]
I just came back from an absolutely amazing women's event in Manhattan Beach, California where I spent 2 1/2 days connecting, networking and learning from fantastic, high quality women. The people at this event just 'got it'. They were super positive, authentic and we learned so much from one another. What I wanted to do [...]
One of the most effective ways to get yourself out there in the world is to network! We must get away from the computer and put ourselves out there in front of people. It is an amazing way to meet new people and for others to get to know who we really are. And if [...]
This is always a busy time of year. Between holiday shopping, cooking, attending holiday parties and finishing up client work, there seems not to be much other time to think about anything else. But I do think about something else. Always at this time, I review what my goals were for the year; and see what I accomplished [...]