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To Start: Get Still and Focused What does “ready” look like? Football players lined up at the line of scrimmage. Runners crouched on their starting blocks. Dancers poised in the wings. A conductor with arms raised before the downbeat. It is completely still, before the flurry of movement (or words). Take that moment. And take [Read More…]

Yes, You! I believe we all share some responsibility to engage in civil discourse. Let me encourage you to be a self-starter and not wait for others to begin. We Can All Do Something Civil means courteous and polite. And discourse is what we’re engaged in all day, every day. So how can we do [Read More…]

I Stood At The End of Crystal Pier in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina this week and took this photo. The pier stretches 475 feet straight out onto the ocean, and was built of solid wood in 1939. I was looking at the full moon and here’s what I was thinking.  The Moonlight Was Brilliant and [Read More…]

March is One of Those Months kind of betwixt and between. Here in New England, winter has basically lost its grip, but  spring is playing hard-to-get. I remember this proverb from childhood: March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb. A little Googling turns up the year 1732 as the earliest [Read More…]

I’m Not Going To Lie It’s hard to write this month. I’m filled with anxiety about this country, the constitution, bigotry, ignorance. I’m obsessively reading legacy media as well as way too many newsletters, independent journalists’ Substacks, etc. My eye caught this line, and I copied it down: “We do what’s possible.”* In other words, [Read More…]

The Fire As I write this, wildfires are raging across 45 square miles of Los Angeles County. Over 100,000 people have been displaced and at least 25 have died. The Santa Ana winds are whipping up to 100 mph and the scenes of catastrophic loss and destruction are unbelievable to look at, let alone absorb. [Read More…]

It’s Feeling Pretty Dark around here. I don’t know about you, but I sure am grateful for the Winter Solstice. That perfect moment when our Northern Hemisphere’s axis turns the corner, tilting us back towards warmth, spring and light. I Believe There’s A Reason why we have holidays in the midst of the darkest time [Read More…]

Are You OK? Asking for a friend. I’ve been a mess since the American Presidential Election last week. This isn’t the place to discuss politics, but let me just say lots of us are not really OK. There’s terrible divisiveness in the land and lots of ill feeling. I Decided To Write About Kindness as [Read More…]

Onstage In Las Vegas a few weeks ago, senior executives of a software company were welcoming the audience to their annual user conference. Presenting on a big stage with a spotlight shining in your face is very different from sitting at your desk in front of your computer screen. Talking into a sea of invisible [Read More…]

Quantum Analysis? I was hired to deliver a coaching session to a skeptical older gentleman who had been a NASA physicist and was known as a quant*. At the end of our meeting, he gave me one of the most significant client comments I’ve ever received, “I’m pleasantly surprised you know as much as you [Read More…]