After recently visiting the midwest, I can better understand how isolation might turn people against the other. Coastal elites, diversity in the workforce, knowledge workers, they are less prevalent in the middle of the country. And indeed, it’s human to find reasons to justify personal pain by blaming others. Or a different experience is to look inward and ask […]
#RPCL Log Date Aug 30, 2017 #BeingHuman #LookBeyondYourself #BeKind #FearCanOvertakeYou #NoOneeyedMonstersHere #StressWillComeFirst
Take a look around you for a moment. What do you see? Are you surrounded by your reflection? Are you at the center of your world? If your answer is yes, it’s time to look again. You cannot possibly be the only thing in life that matters. If you don’t care about your neighbors, extended […]
#RPCL Log Date Aug 29, 2017 #BeingHuman #BeYOURhero #BeFirm #ArtOfNegotiation #TakeCareOfYou
I was giving advice to a member of our work family the other day, when Agent J2 told me she was overloaded at work and managing a full time schedule on a part time gig. My advice was to be firm when she met with the partner to discuss her load. I urged her to take […]
#RPCL Log Date Aug 28, 2017 #BeingHuman #BeUnapologetic #KnowWhoYouAre #MinimizeFear
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it here again. Be unapologetic in your life. One way to do it? Minimize fear. Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Be unapologetic about who you are. Once you let your courage overcome the dark and fearful side, you can be more at peace with who you are, […]
#RPCL Log Date Aug 27, 2017 #BeingHuman #KnowWhereYouStand #ConfrontUnknowns #MinimizeFear
As a consultant, there are things I’m clearly sure about. I know what workload I have for the next few months. I know how much I need to do on Sunday to get a head start for the week. I also know what I need to do to continue cultivating a pipeline of work. And then […]
#RPCL Log Date Aug 26, 2017 #BeingHuman #BarnRaising #RelyOnCommunity #ItTakesAVillage
The other day I received a note from a client with stats showing that purposeful companies are not that important to millennials. Most of what I’ve read and seen in trusted publications such as Fast co., HBR.org, IPR.org or gallup.com, millennials are looking for higher meaning at work. So who do we believe? No matter […]
#RPCL Log Date Aug 25, 2017 #BeingHuman #ConnectTheDisconnected
When I reflect on my four different worlds, I experience cognitive dissonance between the lines. From being a fully entrepreneurial leader working with Fortune 100’s and 500’s, to being an engaged work-from-home which can equate to stay-at-home mom there is a large gap in between. Or from working with high-tech corporations (who are moving the needle […]
#RPCL Log Date Aug 24, 2017 #BeingHuman #GrabYourPower #WordsMatter
Words matter. It’s something we’ve said here before, and it’s something we reinforce when working with leaders, because their words have such obvious impact on people. The same thing holds true in any relationship. Words and actions have impact, and the depth of that impact depends on others’ perception of you. More than once in my […]
#RPCL Log Date Aug 23, 2017 #BeingHuman #ChooseToDwellOnLife #ChooseLife #Embracetheliving
Do you dwell on doom? On “what if there’s an apocalypse”? My daughter told me one day she was afraid of dying and of losing us. She recently lost her grandfather. I said to her, “Well, we all die. So might as well acknowledge that death is a part of life, and that worrying about it […]
#RPCL Log Date Aug 22, 2017 #BeingHuman #FakeNews #AlwaysQuestion
At a conference I recently attended, one of the speakers was talking about the information society. In our world of over-available information, it is easy to fall for a story that looks real, but is not. In fact, one of the journalists presenting was saying that today when you want to get rid of information […]
