The BOLD (And the Winner Is) I just finished my quarterly planning retreat. I set aside three days each quarter in order to review, envision and prep the path for my success for the next three months. I used to do annual planning only, but this 12-week focus allows me to reset and realign before I get […]
The Aspiration Audit: Harnessing FOMO To Design Your Best Life
The BOLD (I Could Have, You Know) When the exhausting and imperious Lady Catherine De Bourgh demands her part in the conversation in Chapter 31 of Pride And Prejudice (see the quote above), she declares that she is sure that if she had ever applied what she believes to be her considerable natural talent to […]
The Habit Scaffold: Supporting Your Desired Future
The BOLD (I Call This Meeting to Order) This past Sunday, our family gathered around the dining room table and I convened a Household Meeting. Despite wiggling, playing on phones because I was taking too long to take notes and wandering around the room (yes, I saw you, husband mine), we were able to re-negotiate our […]
The Thinking Arena: Setting Yourself Up for Good, Solid Thinking
The BOLD (What do you think?) “I need to think about that.” I hear it all the time when I work with clients. We will discover some insight, encounter some new awareness and the client will feel the urge to give it some thought. My question is often, “How will you think about it?” Do […]
The Transition List: Ready for the New Thing
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]