Stories to inspire and motivate your life written from our own experiences and personal discoveries.
Slow Down as You Speed Back into Routine
Do you feel like you need a vacation from your Labor Day Vacation but know that it’s Back to School, Back to Work, and Back to the Grind? Labor Day here in the states marks the unofficial end of summer and the change in our cultural mindset back to routine. ...
Why so serious?
I never had formal sales training. I can’t tell you if that’s good or bad. My first job in direct, non-retail sales sat me next to one of my first and most memorable mentors. His sales technique went something like this… Customer: “Hello” Mentor Guy (MG): “Do you...
For the Love of Work
Part of being an executive coach is hearing the positives and negatives of people’s jobs. It may surprise you to learn that I hear more positives. Maybe that is because those who hire coaches are generally positive. However, how we feel about our jobs can be...
Betty White…America’s Favorite Aunt
America loves Betty White because she's an incurable flirt. She has the perfect one-liner for everything and she's as naughty as she wants to be. Betty is America's favorite aunt because she is adorably playful and we can't get enough of her. Think about yourself when...
Cancer Research as a First Step
This post is an update to the post I wrote in June about working to integrate the cancer survivor part of me with the whole of me. You can read that post about the beginning of my personal journey here. ...
Linkin Park, NKOTB, and Feelings of Youth
I’m currently reading this great book by Martha Beck, “Finding Your Way in a Wild New World.” I highly recommend it. On page 169, she talks about this experiment where “elderly men were asked to imagine they’d gone back in time. They lived in a facility decorated...





