Your brain is not helping you when it looks for reasons. Think back to the last unpleasant thing that happened to you. How did you respond? If you’re like me, you probably spent a long time afterwards reviewing the whole sequence of events that led up to the thing, looking for what you could have…
Month: September 2025
“Pay attention to the question behind the question: not just, “What should I do?”—but “Who do I want to become?”
“Pay attention to the question behind the question: not just, “What should I do?”—but “Who do I want to become?” Because in the end, that’s what leadership is. Not control. Not certainty. But a way of being in the world.” I love this perspective from Jerry Colonna – so few of us take the time…
Sharing your truth can be a transformational act.
Sharing your truth can be a transformational act. I was feeling trapped this week. I had made too many work and family commitments, and was dreading the exhaustion that would come as I struggled through, because I am already feeling exhausted. But one of my core beliefs is to deliver on my commitments, no matter…
What have you been thinking, but not saying?
What have you been thinking, but not saying? Tension is created when there is a disconnect between what we are internally thinking and what we are sharing with others. They feel that tension, and come up with their own stories of what might be behind the tension, projecting their own worst fears. Releasing that tension…