How do you know if you’ve “made it?” What’s the criteria, the standards, the metrics? I was 27 years old when I drove my first “new-to-me” luxury car off the showroom floor. It was an emerald green, tan leather interior, V8, Oldsmobile Aurora complete with sunroof, heated seats, and more bells and whistles than I […]
Recently I attended two professional women’s meetings and heard what I consider “disturbing” comments from women. The first comment came from a woman encouraging a man to join the organization, “You would do very well in this women’s group because women would rather do business with a man.” The second comment came from a woman […]
The audience erupted in spontaneous applause. I cried. I started crying before the movie officially ended but when the applause began my tears turned from a silent, polite flow to an audible stream of elephant tears as my body shook with emotions that I am still unsure if I can name….Gratitude? Sadness? Pain?…..Awe?…… Humility! I […]
How you respond to winning or losing, how you respond to getting what you want or not, tells us a lot about how content and at peace you are with yourself – how truly secure you are purely because you exist as YOU. On the heels of people getting or not getting what they want […]
Are you the master of your money? Do you know what it takes to master your money? Are you doing what it takes to master your money? If you answered, yes, I want to applaud you for your confidence in your behaviours and decisions around money. I must admit, I am a bit skeptical. When […]
Do you ever feel that way? Full authenticity, I really do not LIKE what most people DO but because I have a downright “unnatural” LOVE for my human kind, my heart breaks to watch people sabotage their own success and joy. While I LOVE people, I do not LIKE their behaviours which are actually counter […]
The Delusion of Knowledge In the 2011 first edition of “Stanford,” my university’s magazine for alumni, an article “Separation Anxiety” addresses the unintended consequences of a world that is increasingly dependent on technology and, specifically, the impact this instant access to information has on what we perceive as “factual” and, thus, assume to be the […]