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There are days when I wish I looked a certain way, or felt a certain way, or had certain things. But gratitude grounds me again and again. Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Don’t aspire to be the other. Be yourself. And be okay with it. #beself Be kind. Be safe. Be appropriate. […]

Managing people is hard. There are several reasons. One, personalities are dynamic. Two, drivers can be complementary or contrary. Three, levels of expertise range broadly. And then there are things like deadliness, and habits that are hard to break. But one of the biggest challenges for me is managing people when they have self-doubt. Whether […]

Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Create better endings, even if you can’t quite achieve full closure.

Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Remember that numbness is not freedom from pain or suffering. It’s temporary. And it can create a host of real problems, if we never deal with the source.

Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Be present enough to read, see and hear nuance. It’s there whether you choose to identify it, or not. Be kind. Be safe. Be appropriate. Now go!  

Value comes in all shapes and sizes. In our society, we predominantly measure value in monetary worth. Value is represented in figures. It’s the datapoint used when buying a car, borrowing money for a home or student loan and paying taxes. So what if we now have an economy that is driven by Artificial Intelligence, where people […]

Your mission, if you choose to accept it: If the new normal doesn’t feel so normal, don’t give up no matter how exhausting the battle. Remind yourself that it’s worth the fight. And find community to support your efforts to help humanity be better. We can do this. Be kind. Be safe. Be appropriate. Now […]

I have two very stubborn children. And I’m kind of proud of the fact that they are determined and resilient! But there is a time when being stubborn becomes a problem. If stubbornness replaces acceptance of new ideas, then it is actually paralyzing. We don’t become more resilient, we become more close-minded. Your mission, if you […]

Listening, really listening, non-judgmental listening, is really hard to do. If it weren’t such a problem, we wouldn’t have too many versions of the truth, or many many many books and workshops teaching us how to focus our attention and listen better. Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Remember this, we don’t just listen […]

I was really struggling on a work thing recently and knew it was a chemistry issue. I needed a guy to help me with this one. Or course, when I pitched the idea of skipping the meeting, he said I couldn’t miss it. But he also helped me to see another perspective and frame the […]