Advice

Search Suggestions

Jan 6, 2022 It’s 2022: Time to Raise Your Allowance—Hallelujah! Greetings and welcome to 2022! It’s a pleasure to connect in the New Year. If you’ve been a Wow reader for a while, you know that each year I pick… Read More
Dec 28, 2021 Anybody Home? : The Freedom We Have When We Have Self Respect One of my heroes died last week: Joan Didion. Famous for her screenplays (“Panic in Needle Park” and Barbra Streisand’s, “A Star is Born”) and her novels, the most well… Read More
Dec 21, 2021 ‘Tis the Season – of Re-Gifting? Greetings all! The holiday season is upon us, with its attendant frenzy of gifting and—if we are honest—re-gifting. (Never fear, this is not a post on the etiquette of re-gifting.)… Read More
Dec 16, 2021 It’s Never as Good as it Seems. It’s Never as Bad as it Seems. A few weeks ago, I decided to begin educating myself about cryptocurrency by listening to an interview with Brian Armstrong, the inventor of Coinbase. After listening to it, I’m clearer… Read More
Dec 2, 2021 “A Car Accident, a Head Cold, a Lie Before Breakfast…” One of my favorite books of all time is J.D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey. The reasons I love it are too numerous to recount. For today the lines below, describing… Read More
Nov 23, 2021 “I Made a Mistake” vs. “I Made a Bad Decision” This past August, The New Yorker published an article on a support group for white-collar criminals. The piece offers a lot to consider, but the thing that’s been taking up… Read More
Nov 18, 2021 “That’s Not a Terrible Idea…” As those of you know who have been on the Wow journey for a while, the nuances of language live large for me. Today, I’d like to look at a… Read More
Nov 11, 2021 Are You Doing New Things in an Old Way? Dear Former Wow-of-the-Week’ers—Now Intrepid Here-and-Wow’ers, It’s wonderful to reconnect! I’ve missed being in touch with you. As you may remember, my last post outlined some of the ways I thought… Read More
Jun 24, 2021 “Is There Anything Else I Should Be Asking You?” Recently, I was listening to an interview on NPR. At the end of the session the interviewer said, “Is there anything else I should be asking you?” This struck me… Read More
Jun 10, 2021 Expectations: Set Them Up So They Work For You Many of us have heard the phrase, “Expectations are resentments waiting to happen.” and this is certainly true if they are unspoken. (Should you doubt me, don’t articulate your expectations… Read More

✕

How to Wow: Proven strategies for selling your (Brilliant) self in any situation

Order Now