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Attack the Hardest or Easiest Tasks First?
Let’s try another slant on your typical plan of action. Getting started is key and tweaking your approach helps. Begin with a challenging...
anne9716
Jan 4, 20151 min read


Isn’t it flattering to be everyone’s best friend?
• What was so very troubling to her? • What were the feelings it brought up? • Why did she feel as if she had been punched in the...
anne9716
Jan 3, 20152 min read


Your Voice…Your Choice
I speak to groups and coach clients and since much of my work is done on the phone, sounding polished and impactful is important. Upon...
anne9716
Dec 28, 20142 min read


The Importance of Punctuation
“A woman without her man is nothing.” The men in the class wrote: “A woman, without her man, is nothing.” The women in the class wrote:...
anne9716
Dec 22, 20141 min read


Ignore the Small Stuff
Some things just aren’t worth your time and energy. Perhaps a co-worker refuses to greet you in the morning. Maybe a customer uses a...
anne9716
Dec 14, 20141 min read


Orthodontic Treatment and Job Prospects
Understanding that attractive people often are assigned desirable characteristics including greater ability, responsibility and social...
anne9716
Dec 7, 20141 min read


Getting Centered in a “New York” Minute
Train to Center ~ Once you recognize center, you can begin to train in it. At first this requires trust. Don’t expect major breakthroughs...
anne9716
Nov 30, 20142 min read


Career Advice
According to Krawcheck, “If we ask for a raise and get one big enough to close that gap, the investment we have just made in ourselves...
anne9716
Nov 23, 20141 min read


Strengthen Your Core
We all learned early on that the “Three Little Pigs” had some construction challenges and that the house built on the strongest...
anne9716
Nov 16, 20142 min read


Managing Your Weaknesses
So, even if I don’t care about baseball currently, there must be some childhood memory of growing up around it and the importance of it...
anne9716
Nov 8, 20142 min read


Executive Presence
Author and former television anchor, Suzanne Bates, speaks to learning from feedback below. “Let’s say people who know you well say that...
anne9716
Nov 2, 20142 min read


She Let Go
Most recently I was pondering the concept of “letting go” and it’s multi-layered meaning when I came upon this poem. Enjoy! She Let Go...
anne9716
Oct 26, 20142 min read


“Winning” IS Fundamental
“Bear” Bryant said that members of a winning team needed 5 things: 1. Tell me what you expect from me 2. Give me an opportunity to...
anne9716
Oct 19, 20141 min read


Raiding the Fridge
However, another perspective is that these are learned behaviors. Reaching for the cheese curls over the bicep curls may be a habit more...
anne9716
Oct 12, 20141 min read


Lucky of Purposeful?
Do you consider yourself to be a lucky person? Are you someone who takes full advantage of opportunities, focusing on them as they arise?...
anne9716
Oct 5, 20142 min read


Getting to ‘NO’
Two recently completed studies were presented at a business conference. In one study, 47 business school students were asked to recall...
anne9716
Sep 28, 20141 min read


Effective Body Language
DO: HOLD YOUR CHIN– It’s a thinking pose DON’T: PULL IN YOUR LIPS- Sucking in your lips suggests that you are holding back, perhaps...
anne9716
Sep 21, 20141 min read
Precrastination
When I first came upon the word, precrastination, I assumed that it was a misspelling. Intriguing as it might be, it sounded like another...
anne9716
Sep 14, 20141 min read


The Perversity of Perfection
“I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung.” Rabindranth Tagore, poet...
anne9716
Sep 7, 20141 min read


Listen to the Whispers
Sometimes, the whisper can appear with such consistency that we still ignore it even when the tone rises to a SHOUT! A most memorable...
anne9716
Sep 1, 20143 min read
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