“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” ~ Seneca the Younger. When I began sending these daily wellbeing messages over a year ago, the world was in a scary, precarious place. We knew a terrible storm was coming, but had no idea how bad it would be or how to protect [...]
“By far the biggest mistake people make when trying to change careers is to delay taking the first step until they have settled on a destination.” ~ Herminia Ibarra in Working Identity. True story of my friend’s brother: he decided at a young age he wanted to be a doctor. He went to college, [...]
“It’s like I’m waiting in line for like a roller coaster and that stupid like butterflies-in-your-stomach feeling you get. I get that all the time. And then I never get the feeling after you ride the roller coaster.” ~ Kayla, a teen describing her anxiety in Bo Burnham’s feature film, [...]
On the other side of a storm is the strength that comes from having navigated through it. ~ Gregory S. Williams Today marks one year of my sending out daily quotes and mini-tips. On April 7 last year, New York’s death toll was staggering, Boris Johnson was moved to intensive care, and we still [...]
Are you feeling like things are more of a slog these days? Even more than they were a week or two ago? If so, you’re not alone. Many of my clients and colleagues feel it’s taking longer to make decisions, longer for tasks to get done, and projects are moving slowly, if at all. They find this [...]
Here are 10 questions to answer, yes or no. What’s changed for you – professionally and personally – as a result of the pandemic? I feel the work I do (or did) has little impact and would like to feel that my work makes more of a difference. I have a very clear idea of a new project [...]
“Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s a cha-cha.” ~Robert [...]
“What we’re talking about is getting to know fear, becoming familiar with fear, looking it right in the eye—not as a way to solve problems, but as a complete undoing of old ways of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and thinking. The truth is that when we really begin to do this, we’re [...]