If you are wired like most humans, when confronted with uncertainty, your questions would be oriented from your limbic brain – how to create stability, security and safety for yourself. Your questions would be oriented more toward the short-term - solving your immediate problem versus satisfying a longer-term vision of where you really want to be. ... [Read more]
Leadership & The Art of Boundary Setting
Being a great leader requires you to have clear, strong boundaries – and also know when to be flexible and collapse or expand them. It’s knowing in any given moment where your boundary needs to be in light of: What you want to accomplish How you need to lead your constituents - what they need to hear and the way in which they need to hear ... [Read more]
Magic Monday: The Complexity of Priority Setting Today
Where can you find the magic at work today? Some people say that setting priorities is very simple - it’s a yes or no. Yes, focus on this task now. No, not now (defer) or ever (discard). However, in today’s current environment deciding which of these labels to put on your to do list in a given day or week can be more complex than at first ... [Read more]
Follow up Friday: The Bare Essentials -Taking my Laptop and Cell Phone for Sure!
This week’s reflection questions: If you have to pack yourself up and live or work somewhere else for a few days, what would you take with you? What priorities would you focus on and leave the rest for another day or just take off the list? If I was displaced for a few days, and I could still, or needed to work, I would take my laptop, cell ... [Read more]
Follow up Friday: Reaching Out is Key
This week’s reflection question: Where are you less than confident? What supports do you have to help you get clear and think things through? As an entrepreneur, here is what I noticed about myself this week - I get less than confident when I am too scattered, trying to do it all. In this moment, I can lose sight of my core competency as a Coach ... [Read more]
Magic Monday: Embracing the Unexpected
Tucson at sunrise this morning. Where can you find the magic at work today? I attended a mastermind business retreat in Tucson last week. My flight home was scheduled for yesterday. Of course all flights were cancelled because of the Blizzard that slammed the Northeastern United States this weekend. The first flight I could get home is ... [Read more]