Getting back on track means something different for everyone. Perhaps you simply don’t like the career path you’ve been on, yet the salary is good enough and the benefits are important and could be hard to duplicate elsewhere. You remember being inspired and excited about your career at one point, but the job market is tight and you think you are too old to make a change. According to recent studies, only 30-percent of Americans feel engaged or inspired at their jobs, which l

Instead of a resolution, each year commit to a New Year’s Kickstart! Here’s the idea: You start your year off with a big success by completing a relatively quick turnaround project that you’ve been putting off. It could be a website, blog, newsletter, new mini-business, or a presentation, podcast or webinar you’ve been wanting to complete. It’s Your Spark Plug: Whatever your project, your New Year’s Kickstart should be the spark that ignites your bigger picture strategy for t

My immediate reaction was to focus on the general avoidance of difficult conversations, knowing when it’s time to end a relationship but not having the courage or the tools to do so. Even in a smaller context, most of us are uncomfortable with speaking the words to someone who we once cared about, perhaps still do, but no longer want to be connected to them. The immediacy of on-line communication makes it even harder to step away and disconnect appropriately. “According to an

So, what does this decidedly happy activity have to do with fears? The most obvious connection is to the person who might be self-conscious about their dancing skills and is otherwise hesitant to join in. And, if fear is the enemy of self-confidence, what are the 5 most common fears and what do they have to do with a conga-line? Fear of the unknown, failure, commitment, disapproval and/or success Any of these can apply to a public “performance” and then observe how we ably pi

Instead of a resolution, each year I commit to a New Year’s Kickstart! Here’s the idea: You start your year off with a big success by completing a relatively quick turnaround project that you’ve been putting off. It could be a website, blog, newsletter, new mini-business, or a presentation or webinar you’ve been wanting to complete. It’s Your Spark Plug: Whatever your project, your New Year’s Kickstart should be the spark that ignites your bigger picture strategy for the year