November 13 is World Kindness Day! Let’s celebrate kindness through the end of the year with 52 random acts of kindness! Kindness nurtures your relationship with the world around you and makes you feel great! Practicing kindness doesn’t have to be difficult- even the smallest act of kindness makes a huge difference. I challenge you to doing each and every one … Read More
How to have a difficult conversation at work
Yesterday I attended a court hearing with my former employer regarding my employment. I’m the one who called the hearing but I wasn’t sure I was going to go through with it. The thought of having to have yet another difficult conversation with my former employer caused me no small amount of stress! It’s always stressful to have a difficult … Read More
How To Build Compelling Confidence
What is confidence? Confidence gives you the courage to take risks. Confidence encourages the pursuit of your dreams. Confidence expresses your trust and belief in yourself. Confidence in yourself gives others confidence in you. So let me ask you, what is your level of confidence? In what situations do you trust yourself? Do you trust yourself? You need confidence to be … Read More
Moving past resentment
Last month I was fired. I’m fine with it, really, yet I found myself feeling anger and resentment about how bad things were before I was fired and the fact that I didn’t get to leave on my own terms. I was angry at the organization leadership, and also at myself. I blamed my employer for poor communication, and lack of leadership. … Read More
5 myths about work-life balance
When I started writing this blog five years ago, I desperately needed work-life balance. I was stressed out and had suffered a series of stress-related health issues. I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. I read about work-life balance. I wrote about work-life balance. I immersed myself in a whole new way of thinking and relating to … Read More
Change your relationship with fear
Fear is a powerful emotion that is inherently designed to save your life. The problem is, however, that when we feel fear there is rarely an actual threat, and yet we have the same response to fear as our distant ancestors- to avoid the thing we fear even though we are in no real danger. Most often when we experience fear what … Read More
Take it to the next level
Last week I got fired. I have to be honest, a big part of the reason I wasn’t too upset about getting fired was the organization management wasn’t a good fit for me. I’d thought about quitting so many times over the past 9 months. So. Many. Times. I’d applied for other jobs, even been on some interviews, but I … Read More
I got fired and I’m feeling fine
I was fired from my job last week. I packed up my desk and drove straight to my Toastmasters meeting. My fellow members were surprised to see me considering I was just fired. “What am I going to do,” I asked them, “go home and mope?” No, truly there’s nowhere else I’d rather be than in the company of my … Read More
So, what’s your story?
Imagine you are writing the story of your life. Every day is a new page, a fresh start. Your life is a “choose your own adventure” book. What adventure will you choose today? Taking responsibility and ownership of your life and your choices is paramount to happiness. You write your story. But it’s easy to lose focus and forget you … Read More
Embrace the unknown
The idea of the unknown is, at times, completely terrifying. What’s going to happen if I’m not following a plan? Where am I going if I don’t know where I’m going? Somehow, over the years, I’ve become more comfortable with the unknown. Life rarely goes according to plan, and even less often do things turn out the way I expect … Read More