The BOLD (Take a Moment to Energize a Season) I wish you all the best of this season of deep winter, wooly blankets, blessed stillness, anticipation, gratitude, and warmth. However you choose to celebrate, whatever your observance, I wish you the best of the holidays. Now, on to the celebration of New Year’s Day. It’s time to […]
The Discomfort Fee: Pay the Toll to Change
The BOLD (Comfortable with Discomfort) This is the time of year where we focus a great deal on change. We mark the passage of the year. We engage in assessment and planning. We set intentions (even when we tell everyone we’re over that whole New Year’s resolution scam). There is one constant about change (other than the fact […]
The Fear Rule: You Must Do It
The BOLD (Fear Rules) We love inspirational quotes. Scan your social feeds and you’ll find them peeking out like garnets in gneiss, peppering the landscape. One quote changed my life. Eleanor Roosevelt’s encapsulated wisdom (quoted above) changed my perspective, impacted my behavior and shifted my outcomes. One quote changed my life because I decided to live it. […]
Pretend Courage: Is It Really a Risk?
The BOLD (How Brave) You witness a great feat of courage—a skydiver plummeting from a plane, a parent shopping at the grocery store will all 9 kids in tow, a business owner making a pitch, the CEO addressing the board—and you feel a double shot of emotion. It is one part admiration, one part self-conscious comparison. […]
Thanks-marking: Develop Anticipatory Gratitude
The BOLD (Thank You In Advance) Happy Thanksgiving (holiday laden with turkey and stuffing) to those in the United States. Happy thanks-giving (action of delivering thanks where they are due) to everyone everywhere. I am grateful for you, gentle reader. This is the 26th week in a row that this inbox magazine has greeted you. That is 6 months […]
An NPR Lesson in the Power of Impromptu Communication
The BOLD (Wait, Wait…Say That Again) A recent experience has me thinking about the role of scripted and impromptu communication in our lives. Sometimes we have the luxury of preparation. Sometimes, we must flow in the moment and rally our words to serve an opportunity that, once past, will not come again. How can we prepare to communicate […]
Discover Your Action Engine
The BOLD (Mood Indigo..or chartreuse, or royal blue) “I’m in a mood.” What is a mood, really? How do we differentiate a mood from an emotion? A mood is an emotional state and an emotion is a response. And both moods and emotions influence our actions–they are our action engines. If we are to take responsibility for our emotions, […]
I Wish You Joy
The BOLD (Thanks for Thanksgiving) November is the month for Thanksgiving. I love that our holidays line up gratitude before giving and receiving. Anticipating good things with a heart light with gratitude nourishes joy. I wish you joy. The Whisper (Love of Life) My fingers were scrambling to move the pen fast enough to catch all the […]
Retire the Habits That No Longer Serve
The Bold (Any Way You Slice It) How often have you heard that the only way forward is to eliminate limiting beliefs? I heard a speaker recently who said that we have a war on time. The problem with declaring war on our behavior, our attitudes and our resources is that, since those things are ours, […]