I’ve gotten through the majority of the most challenging times in my life with the belief that things happen for a reason, that no matter how ugly or tough or seeming senseless things are in the moment, there’s a lesson in there for me to learn. The older I’ve gotten and the further along in […]
What I Worry About More Than The Coronavirus
Worrying is a useless practice. Worry changes nothing. Worrying is praying for something you don’t want. Still, I worry. I am worried about the coronavirus, worried enough that after the first signs of what I was pretty sure was just a bad cold, I marched myself to the doctor on March 2. I was promptly […]
Why Asking Questions Feels So Risky And What We Can Do About It
My father used to take us for Sunday drives when I was growing up. It was something people in the sixties did when there was still a romance with the automobile and we were not yet aware of how carbon emissions were going to damage the atmosphere. Occasionally we would get lost. In the pre-GPS days, […]
A Like Is Not A Marketing Strategy
Facebook keeps sending me messages encouraging me to spend money with them to boost my posts so I get more likes. I get it. Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s claim that helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing he is most proud of in his life, Facebook is in the business […]
What I’ve Learned About Luck
After I landed one of my first big deals as a sales rep my boss called me into his office to congratulate me. I was having none of it. I told him it was nothing more than luck, that I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. I wasn’t used […]
When You Are In A Rut But Don’t Know It – The Universe Delivers
I didn’t know I was in a rut. I didn’t know that somehow, without me noticing, I had fallen into one. But maybe I did. Maybe on some level that was the reason I had decided to put my blog and newsletter on hiatus last February and it has taken me this long to bring […]
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