Happy Anniversary to Me! 
In two days, on July 10th, I celebrate my eighth year in business. Yippee!
I’ve come a long way, baby, and wanted to share with you eight (of many!) lessons I’ve learned on the journey. Some taught to me by others, some discovered the hard way.

Employ the 96-minute rule. I learned this from [...]

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”  ~Thomas A. Edison
I know you’ve heard this many times, but it bears repeating: Failure = Opportunity to Learn.
A device I use to remember this comes from a story I heard many years ago during a coach training class. We had just been taught [...]

Did you know that having regular massage can improve your business? It can, and there is even scientific proof!
A study by the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami compared workers who received massage with workers who were asked to relax and close their eyes for the same period of time. Those receiving the [...]

Often, new clients come to coaching because they feel trapped in their jobs. Trapped by money, loyalty guilt and quite often, fear of the unknowns of a new job. They hate Monday mornings, resent management decisions and often feel quite stressed out.
There is actually a cure for this misery!
And you don’t even have to quit [...]

Sorry to break this to you, but your co-workers are talking about you after work with their family members and friends. It’s just one of those facts of life.
You know how that conversation goes:
“How was your day today, honey?” asks your co-worker’s spouse.
To which your co-worker replies, “Oh man, I work with this one person [...]

The trick to writing riveting and persuasive marketing copy is simply this: Know – and I mean really know, your audience – and get over there into their shoes and talk with them, not at them.
This age-old marketing truism makes a lot of sense and it works. And yet, I encounter so many blogs, websites, [...]

I always bristled at the saying from the 90s, “Work smarter, not harder.” It felt judgmental to me – so you are telling me that I am wrong for working hard? And, in the same breath, you imply that I must get the job done, or else?
Let’s add up this mixed message: If I A) [...]

They made this mess. It’s their fault. If it weren’t for them…. Oh, there are so many ways to invoke blame!
Here’s the raw truth about blame: In the moment, it seems so easy and natural to lay blame on others. But operating from a stance of blame is as harmful to yourself than it is [...]

“You’re grounded!”
These words have been uttered by many a parent as punishment for mischief-making teenagers. “Grounding,” in this sense, means you are taking the kid out of the action and putting her on the sidelines for a bit.
One mom I know said that grounding doesn’t work as a deterrent for her son because he likes [...]

Chade-Meng Tan is my new hero.
Meng, as he is known, is one of Google’s original software engineers. He has won numerous awards and his academic and technical achievement records are impressive.
But what impresses me the most is his pioneering spirit in the area of bringing meditation and mindfulness practices to the workplace. Right here in the [...]