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Can You Put Yourself First?

How is it that a simple story about an ice cream sundae can stick with us so many years later? Maybe because it’s about so much more…

Defeating Your Inner Defeatist

Advice, Book, Storytelling

While you shouldn’t believe everything you think, you certainly shouldn’t believe that you’re not capable of more and of better.

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things

Advice, Creativity, Goals

An object is more than a physical possession when it contains our stories. When those stories bring us joy, the object is worth holding on to.

Slow Progress is Still Progress

Advice, Goals

Maybe the pace you’re on and the progress you’re making is just fine. Maybe you’re meant to enjoy the process rather than speed it up.

Beware these Interview Red Flags!

Advice, Career

Just as a red flag at the beach is a warning signal to stay out of the water due to dangerous conditions, the red flag at the interview offers a similar alarm bell. Don’t dip a toe in that pond!

Outer vs. Inner Stories

Advice, Goals

Why do we judge on outward appearances alone? Why do we turn in with envy or away with revulsion when we see something that doesn’t meet our own prescribed standards?

Why Good Things Come to Those Who Wait is Terrible Advice!

Goals

Stop waiting for things to happen. Make them happen through a series of strategic steps with calculated results, restarts and retries, mistakes and missteps, do-overs and try-agains, hard work and lessons learned…