TO LEAD WITH LOVE
Women. We are funny creatures. We live with so much guilt. We eat, drink and bathe in our own guilt. Things going your way? Just got a new raise? Bought a new house? Wrote a new book? Celebrate! But first, have some guilt. A big helping of pure guilt. “What will THEY think? What about […]
I have been fascinated by the Titanic for a long time. My great-grandfather had tickets to cross the Atlantic with his family on its maiden voyage. He was unable to wait for its completion and took the earlier boat— the one that was unable to make it back in time to save the sinking ship. […]
I have had an interesting relationship with what is mine and what is not mine. Yes. a a boundary issue. A big one. From a very early age, I confused who I was with another. Which were my emotions, and which ones belonged to other people. I became very good at carrying other people’s negative […]
Energy is like water. What do you do to ensure that your energy flows out of you like a beautiful fountain and does not trickle out of you, like the leak in the kitchen faucet?
Think, “I have the perfect body for me” when you first wake up, when you look at yourself in a mirror, when you see a beautiful woman walk past you in the grocery store, and especially when you watch a movie, a TV show, and / or pick up a glossy magazine. Imagine how much energy you would have […]
Humility is bowing your heart towards your own greatness Not sinking your head in humiliation Or cowering away from ourselves in false humility, or humiliation
I was recently in Southern California to visit my my mom and dear friend from junior high and high school, Jessica Carlson. We have known each other for nearly 40 years (our friendship is even older than my 1984 citroen). We know each other deeply— like the warm ocean we swam in, the same ocean […]
There is a reason why the word GRIT is in inteGRITy. Living in, and with, integrity is essential. Not easy.
Boundaries are like a beautiful fence around our property with a gate that we open when we choose to do so. No guilt involved.
Just as a balanced portfolio has short, medium, and long-term investments, so does every day. While I believe that true equal balance does not necessarily look like 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 for each, every day— there is an overall balance in these three areas that we can find. My relationship to the medium and long-term investments […]
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