We progress. We regress. We gress again. Growing and getting better – no matter the subject – just don’t seem to happen in a forward-moving way. As a Don Henley song says, “All the things I thought I’d figured out, I’m learning again…” We feel like we’ve mastered something, and then we find that it’s [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Retool Your Thinking'
The Learning Curve: More Like a Standing Wave
Your Presence is Requested
You usually go to a spinning class on Tuesday nights, but tonight you have a headache. You’re really swamped, so attending the cross-functional team meeting today is really a stretch. You have a 1:1 scheduled with a member of your team, but that’s the only time today your client can meet. You’re late to a [...]
Hold Your Questions
Shhh! I’m onsite right now with a client leadership team. They’re experimenting with new behavior: listening. There’s a presenter delivering an update right now…. She’s not a member of the team, but has presented to them before. She keeps pausing in astonishment, because they’re not interrupting her. It’s so different than what she’s used to, [...]
What’s Your Escape Fantasy?
“She just pushed me against the wall and it really #$!@ed me off. I’m honestly wondering: do I have to take this? I get calls all the time [from headhunters]. There are lots of other companies where I could pursue my vision without all this bull#$%@!” I held the phone away from my ear. She [...]
Drinking much lately?
My friend Ella asked me the other day, “Have you noticed that we stop drinking water when we’re trying not to feel something?” Just now, she offered me a glass of water and I realized how thirsty I am. I’m preparing for an intense training day tomorrow and drinking and feeling sound like just the [...]
How I lost 62 pounds last night
My friend Ella and her son Forest, Cooper’s “brother by another mother” were over last night. We often have a Thursday night date, when Ella’s husband Michael is at his guitar-building class. Our laughter and cooking and baby nuzzling get us caught up for the week. Last night, Ella brought ease and space when she [...]
Where will you get more strength?
As I was walking to my yoga class this morning, I was thinking about a sales team we’re working with. I was starting to see that their very commitment to going for it - to rigor, to speed, to action – although they think of as their greatest strength, are the very things standing in [...]
Parenting decisions: a web of tensions
My son Cooper turned 10 months old two days ago. He and I have both enjoyed a lovely nursing relationship, both for the snuggly bonding and for the flawless nutrition (our pediatrician, Carol Doroshow, says “the more I learn about breastmilk, the more I believe there’s a God. This stuff is amazing! It has stem [...]
Still trying to solve last year’s problems?
We just received the latest ezine from the brilliant company Media Skills Training, headed by our dear friend Lorraine Howell. Imagine our surprise and delight when we saw that our lunch with her last week had been so enlightening that she wrote her ezine about it. We’ve quoted it below, because the message we shared [...]
Anxiety, Your Business Tool
It’s Wednesday afternoon and I’m working on a proposal for a client, my latest blog entry (curtsy to my reader: hello!), and an array of e-mails and phone calls and a cool new idea for moms who, like me, are approaching their first anniversary of motherhood. Sara, my business partner, is leaving for vacation Friday [...]