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“Why are you slamming your head into that brick wall?” “Because it feels _so_ good when I stop!” I heard this macabre “joke” when I was in college as a way of describing the MIT experience, but I was reminded of it this past week when my daughter had an awful sleep regression, and I…

“I did it!” I hear this many times a day from my 2-year-old daughter, who’s just delighted by everything she can do. Sometimes it’s jumping off a step, sometimes it’s picking up a toy, but whatever it is, she joyfully shouts “I did it!” immediately. I think we can all learn a lesson from her….

I like the conversational writing tone of Michael Bungay Stanier, and really appreciated his book The Coaching Habit for distilling his coaching expertise into seven impactful questions. In his new book, How to Work With (Almost) Anyone, he attempts to take the same approach to building relationships, but it feels clunkier and less intuitive, perhaps…

This week is the end of June! Somehow we’ve reached the halfway point of 2023. Now is a good time to check in with yourself, reflect on the first half of the year, and consider how you will set yourself up to achieve your intentions for the second half. I suggest a holistic checkin across…

Opportunities appear when you pay attention. My mom used to think I was lucky to have great opportunities appear whenever I was looking for a job. And there’s some truth to that. But I also believe that good opportunities were always floating around, and I only noticed them when I started looking for a new…