Gaining the Upper Hand Over Temptation
We are all beset by temptations that make mincemeat of our best promises to ourselves. We commit to quit smoking, lose weight, start exercising, finish writing the book … only to find ourselves still reaching for the pack, still overweight, still driving by the gym, still on page three. The challenge we have resisting immediate [Read More...]
My Ears Hurt! Managing noise to enhance communication
In a world where noise surrounds us–from conversations, to street noise, to pinging computers, phones and beepers to screeching cars and blaring music, it is little wonder that we are unable to process all the information coming at us. We try to filter, but noise has a high impact nonetheless. The ambient sound in open [Read More...]
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The High Impact of High Touch
I saw a gorgeous rocking chair in a lovely little shop in Oregon a few weeks ago. Super comfortable, spectacular and detailed woodwork and naturally, pricey enough. The artist who makes these chairs works to order. I couldn’t resist. I placed an order and put my deposit down. I expected to get notification in a [Read More...]
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All Ears
Years ago when my son was young, he once got so mad at me I thought he might blow a gasket. He had been trying to persuade me that a summer reading and writing requirement which I was insisting on, was an unbearable assault on his happiness and on his right to be a carefree [Read More...]
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Know Your Audience!
A couple of weeks ago, like a salmon swimming upstream to spawn, I flew back to my home town of Manhattan to join in my high school reunion. I went to a very small girls school in the city, and so reunions are intimate– you know everyone (35 women in my graduating class!) and can [Read More...]
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Meet Your Gremlin: Tools for managing your inner critic
If you’re wondering what kind of squirrely and invisible monsters could possibly be linked to my executive coaching practice—and to the lives of every human being I know!—let me introduce you to the concept of gremlins. You may know them by another name: inner critic, negative talk or self-defeating inner voice. Whatever the name, gremlins [Read More...]
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Connecting The Dots: You Get What You Give
A young boy and his father were walking in the mountains. The son tripped on a loose rock and fell hard, scraping his knee badly. He screamed “AAAAHHHHHHH!!!,” and to his great surprise, heard a voice yelling right back “AAAAHHHHHH!!.” The young boy was curious, and yelled out “Who are you?” An answer came back [Read More...]
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Pay It Forward
You never know when you may change a person’s life for the good. Most of us actively hope that we have a positive influence on the people we know– we try to behave with integrity and kindness. But if you really want to ramp up the odds that you have meaningful and lasting impact, your [Read More...]
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Stop Making Sense: Leveraging your intuitive insights
While our analytic brains are trained and developed, challenged and grown daily, our gut reactions are often considered suspect. We receive information all the time that is neither analytic nor objectively provable, and even in the face of our strong hunches, many of us regard this information as irrelevant, distracting, even useless. We operate on [Read More...]
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The Myth about Multi-tasking
So, you’re sitting in your office with the phone cradled at your ear as you attend an important conference call, meanwhile, your eyes are scanning your computer screen– maybe you’re responding to the endless stream of emails, maybe you’re on Expedia booking flights for your next holiday, maybe you’re semi-reading an article in your field [Read More...]
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