The Year I Didn’t Want to Skip Strawberries
My husband, Roger, grew up on a berry farm in Maryland. His teenage and college summers were spent growing, tending to, and picking strawberries. He knows what they need and […]
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This New Tool Will Help Unlock Your Personal and Organizational Growth
“I didn’t realize your company does that. Or this.” That is a comment we get a lot. I get so focused on one service we provide that I sometimes forget […]
One Way To Take Charge Of Personal Growth And Help Implement Change
A touchstone. Two times each year –– the first weekend of October which, where I live, is almost always a glorious fall weekend, and the first weekend of April, which […]
Are you Waiting for People to Fail, or Looking for How They’ll Succeed?
“When you look for the good in others, you discover the best in yourself.” Martin Walsh Right before the holidays, I hosted Allie Chipkin on LinkedIn Live; you can watch […]
305. Jon Clifton: How Do You Rate Your Life?
Happiness…at work. A novel concept? An oxymoron? Far from it. Jon Clifton is the CEO of Gallup and author of Blind Spot: The Global Rise of Unhappiness and How Leaders […]
Throw Yourself a New S Curve
“I prefer to remain anomalous.” Barbara Kingsolver After church on Christmas Day, my friend Deidra asked me, “Do you know that there’s a ski resort, Snowshoe, West Virginia, only about […]
Breathe and Receive
If you celebrate a year-end holiday, I wish you a happy one. If you observe the winter solstice and its promise of longer days and warmer weather to come, I […]
It’s Good to Be a Little Pinched and Hampered for the Holidays
“If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, then we are not giving enough.” Charles Dickens I have long loved this quote from the great British novelist. […]