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Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Be brilliant. It’s good to know when you need to be brilliant, and when you need to be okay with good enough. Hopefully the latter are very few and far between. #perfectlyimperfect      

Your mission if you choose to accept it: Write it down and commit. Any goal is feasible if you start to make it real. Writing it down a very tangible first step!

Your mission, if you choose to accept it: When you’ve had enough, turn off social media and turn on action. #TurnOffSocialMedia #TurnOnAction

Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Don’t go it alone. When life feels out of control, center yourself with a supportive community.  #DontGoItAlone #barnraising #CenterYourself

Sometimes I wonder what’s happening to my greater community of aging parents. By aging, I am talking about the 40’s and 50’s aged parents who still have kids in elementary school and middle school. I’m now observing that more and more parents are trying to balance their identities as middle-aged professional, as stay at home or […]

I feel like I have finally been able to focus for a full day and a half on writing this past weekend. I have been unsettled and struggling to bring clarity to circling thoughts for a client’s speech and a few select short stories that just weren’t sitting well with me. It was causing a lot of distraction until I could get everything solidly down […]

Sometimes relationships teeter on the edge of insanity. And sometimes on the edge of identity crises. We entwine ourselves with others to the point of forgetting who had the idea or who really wanted to do that thing that we all agreed to. Research is proving that identity crises are the root cause of midlife crises (and […]

Sometimes I’m baffled by ego and its affects on ones ability to be kind. Power can tarnish our best behavior. Your mission, if you choose to accept it: No matter what, take a kinder approach to success. Better yet, make it collective success.

From a radio show in the 1940’s to a video game in the 2000’s, Inner Sanctum has a lot of pop culture meaning. But what about it’s actual definition = a very private place and in some cases, holy place? I often tell leaders that they need to find their sanctuary away from the chaos, […]

We are motivated by our values, and sometimes they are more self-oriented. But at some point, leaders align they desires with those that they lead to bring them along. Your mission if you choose to accept it: Reflect on your leadership drivers. Leadership is a balance between selfless and selfish values. Which drivers take precedence for you?