In the last week, I've experienced the pile-on of stressors. Three distinctly different stress-inducing scenarios exploded...

About two years after starting my business, I worked with productivity coach Jason Womack. One of the prompts from his book, "Your Best...

I was recently having a conversation where the words "I don't know" were uttered with such frequency and ferocity that the person I was...

Sometimes asking yourself a simple question can change everything. Time and time again, I have found one question in particular that has...

In my recent post about Conversational Agility, which is the ability to reframe, redirect and refocus a conversation so the discussion is...

When I first learned how to play disc golf, my throw was very inconsistent. My husband coached me by offering discrete tips for what I...

Lynn was still new to the company when she participated in a team meeting that made her feel so awkward and uncomfortable she was about...

There's a section of the Poudre River where I frequently walk that freezes in the winter. Looking down on it, one might wonder if the...

There's ample evidence that the anxiety of anticipation is often worse than the event itself. Incessantly playing out our worries in...

To say that 2020 did not go as any of us planned may seem like an understatement. I had some vacations I was very much looking forward to...

I recently taught myself how to crochet by watching YouTube videos. When I first watched the videos I thought it looked so easy. But when...

Research shows that somewhere between 80%-88% of people who make New Year's resolutions fail to fulfill them. In fact, most people give...

While I was packing to leave New Zealand after my three-month trek there many years ago, I methodically went through my things. Some...

While I was on the track and field team in middle school, I typically ran sprints, including hurdles. Getting positioned properly on the...

With the winter solstice behind us in the Northern Hemisphere, the day light hours are growing a little bit longer. I find that these...

The first time I set a journal goal it was to overcome debilitating self-doubt. As I got to the end of that journal I saw two things. I...

I was recently in a conversation with someone that was complaining. I listened for a while, I heard their frustration and saw that they...

Over the four years I ran the EntrepreNerds Business Book Discussion Group, I kept hearing the same feedback from participants over and...

For years I self-identified as a technophobe. I'm not sure why or how that happened. As a kid, my family always had the latest gadgets....

How do we have productive, strategic conversations when we cannot retreat in-person? That was the question my client and I were...