Seeking Serenity
Cultivating a Key Value for Growth Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely Ralph Waldo Emerson The Beginning Before I...
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Guiding Paths: Empowering Leadership and Career Insights
Jul 152 min read
Staying Positive in the Negativity
Every day, I awaken to my playful pup gently performing her self-appointed alarm clock duties. As I scratch behind her ears and smile at...
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Jun 253 min read
Discovering Something New in the Everyday
The Revelation It's been several years since my refrigerator was new. I had carefully researched my options before making the purchase...
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Mar 185 min read
The Rewards of Patience
The Tentative Start When our Rottie first came to live with us, she was quite apprehensive about residing in suburbia. We don’t know much...
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Feb 202 min read
The Power of Looking Up
I've long noted that most people do not look up. Their attention is focused down or forward with an occasional backwards look. They are...
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Feb 82 min read
The Cost of Doing Nothing
For most of us, decisions involving money are based on affordability and short-term value. If we're hungry, for example, we think about...
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Feb 23 min read
Dive into Your Life
If you've spent considerable time and energy on must do's, hunkered down in your little boat of obligations, it's time to take a plunge...
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Jan 223 min read
Why I'm Inspired by My Dog
As regular readers of my articles on Medium know, I am the proud dog parent of an adorable Rottie. She's a loving companion, intelligent...
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It's Not What You Do
It's the Way That You Do It I was listening to some perfect-for-Sunday-morning jazz vocals and heard "Tain't What You Do (It's the Way...
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Oct 3, 20232 min read
Are You Efficient or Effective?
Striving for Both I heard a fitness expert talk about how we can become efficient at certain movements even when the movements are not...
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Aug 26, 20232 min read
Social Skills at Work
Not Just a New Grad Issue I read an article in the Wall Street Journal entitled, "New Grads Have No Idea How to Behave in the Office" and...
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Jun 27, 20232 min read
Are You Your Best Version?
Expectations If you were raised as I was, it was instilled in you that the best professional lives followed an established pattern. It...
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Jun 8, 20232 min read
Why I Do Less to Achieve More
Making the case for getting off the busy-ness wheel The Confession I am a recovering workaholic. There, I said it out loud. My...
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Jun 6, 20232 min read
Fix the Problem Not the Blame
The Problem Does this sound familiar? There's a huge mess at work. The cause could be bad process, unforeseen risks becoming issues or...
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