The BOLD (Quick, the Bus Is Coming) I know this seems improbable as you rush between air-conditioned havens but September is coming. It’s almost Back to School season. In all likelihood, you spent a dozen years or more of your life preparing for Back to School. Was it a time of anticipation or dread for you? Either way, the […]
Banish Your Peace Pirates–The Now Fixes That Really Pay Off
The BOLD (No Tolerance) Every day, we tolerate irritating situations, broken objects, and clunky systems. Sometimes, these daily items become so familiar that we forget just how much these little islands of dysfunction cost us in peace, function and time. What are you tolerating? Have you calculated the cost and made a decision to tolerate or is […]
How Do You Know You’re Angry (Scared, Happy…)? Identifying the Physical Symptoms of Emotions
The BOLD (I Feel You) Our emotions are always present. We are told that we need to leave our emotions at the door in order to be professional. The vast majority of us have a habit of apologizing when we cry or show a depth of emotion in a public setting. The reality is that our emotions […]
Checking In: A Simple Breathing Exercise for Stability
The BOLD (Can You Hear the Cicadas?) August has arrived in all its steamy splendor. Do you remember the Augusts of your childhood? In the summer, I found myself in perpetual motion, running in the heat and chasing the cool. We spent a lot of time out in the grass of our big backyard. In the morning, we could […]
Am I Enough? Are You Asking the Right Question?
The BOLD (What’s Enough) Insufficiency. Not Enough. Imposter syndrome. There is a little voice that follows us about questioning our fitness for the task at hand, our eligibility for success, our right to the awards we’ve earned. It is a particularly insidious form of resistance. The voice tells us stories and the first story is, “You can’t tell anyone you […]
Expect the Unexpected: Part 3-Cultivate Awareness
The BOLD (In the Moment With You) In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the physical, mindful and self-investment practices that support out choices in the moment between stimulus and response—the only real place where choice is possible. Last week, in Part 2, we looked at the Clarity Design Cycle™ and the Prospects of […]
Prepare for the Unexpected: Part 2–Design Clarity
The BOLD (By Design) I’m excited about this topic, which is part two in a three part series about preparing for the unexpected. We are going to explore designing clarity—setting ourselves up for success by building capacity before the surprise arrives so that we can make a different choice in the space between stimulus and response. […]
Prepare for the Unexpected: Part 1-Nurture Resilience
The BOLD (It starts with the stimulus) Today, we start a three-part series—Prepare for the Unexpected. As Viktor Frankel asserted in the quote above, we have only one place to make a choice and that is the space between the arrival of a stimulus and the execution of our response. For the next three weeks, we will […]
Quality of Life: 3 Lessons from a Tiny House Video Binge
The BOLD (Small to Go Big) The Tiny House movement is revolutionizing how we think about house, home, and lifestyle. Life in a 12x12x12 cube demands a certain level of clarity and determination. It also enables a clear path to experiences and achievements obscured behind housework and clutter in bigger spaces. It is not for […]