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The more you write, speak, and process with others, the more you can transcend your personal fears and personal ego. Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Transcend your ego. Seek views outside of your personal and narrow version of the truth.

Your mission if you choose to accept it: Don’t confuse leadership with control. The best leaders let go of control and delegate, knowing that there is beauty in teaching, learning and striving for imperfection.

Your mission if you choose to accept it: Ask yourself: If not me, then who? Don’t wait to be led by others. Step into your life and own it. You don’t have to know all the answers.

Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Harness your resilience. All humans are capable of resilience. Don’t let others beat you down.

The only way to really know yourself is to ask others what they see. That’s what I told a client the other day. Of course, the key is to really listen, and not argue that they are wrong. I personally know how painful it is to be an open-hearted human being. It means I invite […]

In any relationship, there is a need to make a declaration of beliefs. For my partner and I, we are mostly aligned. But it’s clear that we each have our things that differ. So how do we resolve any potential clashes when our ideas or values conflict? Give it time to see what parts of that […]

Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Be okay with growing pains in life. It might start with adolescence, but it never stops through adulthood, partnership, family hood or any group dynamic.

It’s easy to get caught up in feel good inspirations. I find that they confirm and even justify my indulgent self. And yet… we can’t hide from the truth. The world is not perfect. Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Grab a dose of hopeful realism. It’s okay to be down about how […]

It’s time to redefine risk. We say we want to jump into innovation and risk at work, but do we really mean it? When I hear “calculated risk”… I think we don’t really mean it. Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Define what risk means to you.  Are you interested in safer bets or higher […]

Yesterday was another tough day politically. I sometimes wonder if people can see just how parallel our actions are to  those that took place in the past. When we say we aren’t going to take care of a group of children and young adults who have no other home, we create an oppressed minority. And […]