Start At The Very Beginning
All my life, I remember hearing Julie Andrews, as Maria, sing that line in The Sound Of Music… “Let’s start at the very beginning… a very good place to start…” While we must set aside the fact that she is Read More …
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Find Your Niche
It takes a while to find your niche, whether it is figuring out what you want, what you like, or why you’re doing what you do. Working for a company that doesn’t align with your personal and professional goals can Read More …
Coming Together
This time of year, it is wonderful when all the planning, the stress, the hard work and effort just starts coming together. Moments of simple…realization of what you have learned. The hours of listening, reading, researching – they have all Read More …
Abundance
Thanksgiving is a celebration of abundance, starting with that first harvest – which we’re no longer dependent upon any longer – not really anyway. We have more food than anyone should ever have in one meal, and then, we eat Read More …
Who You Are Today
No doubt, who you are today, is different from the person you were 10 and 20 years ago. You are now older, more mature, maybe you are married and have children – or maybe you have recently graduated and gotten Read More …
Starting Again
So many things have new beginnings, new school – kindergarten, middle school, high school, college, new job, work…marriage, having children, raising them and then sending them off – always starting again and again. We have been talking to friends and Read More …
With Confidence
Tonight, It started to sink in as we count down to the last week before school and the final hours before we have to say good bye to summer. We tried to do some back to school shopping and had Read More …
How’d I Do
When your kids are growing up, they are constantly looking for approval. “How’d I do – did I do it all right mom/dad?” From the first moments, of forming words – when they can’t even ask you that question – Read More …
Right Back At You
How proud you are when someone appreciates you? When they go out of their way to thank you for doing a good job? When someone tells you that they appreciate what you have done? All of this happens and at Read More …
Firm But Flexible
Attended a really wonderful lecture today that I will remember for a while. I have read the author’s books before, but in person, Edward Tufte is much more engaging. One quote from him today really resonated with me. “Be firm, Read More …