Fear can paralyze us. It can be a catalyst for procrastination, avoidance, and sabotage of the very activities that we inherently know, are essential for achievement. Fears can stem from a variety of causes - painful past experiences, a lack of familiarity with a situation, or even the creation of an assumption about an outcome. [...]
My son, AJ, was barely one when we knew he was different. Unlike his cousin, who was born just a few months after him, AJ was not crawling, babbling, or attempting to walk. Instead, he smiled, he cooed, and put his arms up to be cuddled. My father-in-law said that AJ was just a late [...]
In life, and business, we will all face our critics. Whether you finally got your post baby bod, 10 years after giving birth, and posted a bikini photo that your sister-in-law publicly slammed on Instagram or you decided to finally start a business and your so-called bff is now your mff – missing friend forever. [...]
The 52-year old godfather of my kids stood in my kitchen and proclaimed, ‘I am embracing technology. We are going email free.’ He was in town to do a tech incubator and over dinner was espousing the virtues of both Slack and Asana; terms that would not have been uttered from his mouth a mere [...]
At the end of each year, I take time to reflect on the progress over the previous months; contemplating, and writing, at least 100 ways in which my life, and the life of my family, moved forward. Taking stock of improvement is a catalyst in how the year is gauged in each of the [...]
Let me know if this feels familiar – you have a call with a person who criticizes your actions and suddenly you feel deflated. You ruminate on it for days feeling no self-worth and vacillating from anger to pity.
Dealing with Objections - How to Be More Confident and Accomplish More When Facing Obstacles Whether in business, or in life, objections can sting. There is a tendency to misconstrue an objection as something personal, when often it is not. Objections are par for the course when we are presenting an idea to a potential client, [...]
Just saying or thinking the words "massive success" is enough to intimidate some. But isn't it amazing that the difference between winning and losing is often minimal? It looked like the New England Patriots, the likely candidates to win the NFL World Championships were going to tank and Matt Ryan’s Falcons would have one of [...]
“...I came to realize that God never shows us something we aren't ready to understand. Instead, He lets us see what we need to see, when we need to see it. He'll wait until our eyes and hearts are open to Him, and then when we're ready. He will plant our feet on the path [...]
“Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.” —Liz Murray, Speaker Every night before my children go to sleep I tell them this, "You can be, do and have anything [...]
