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Jan 19, 2023 Want to Get Better at Something? Just Don’t Do It Given that my last post was about “just doing it,” it’s possible that this week’s theme might give you a bit of whiplash. Why? Because this week I am all… Read More
Jan 5, 2023 “Wishing You a One-Touch New Year” (AKA Happy New Year! It’s Time to Tighten Your Nuts) On December 31st, the Well desk of The New York Times published an article titled, “Your Best Advice of 2022” While a number of offerings caught my attention, the one… Read More
Dec 15, 2022 What Makes Some Support More Naughty than Nice? It appears—judging by articles along the lines of the NY Times’ recent piece on “The Magic of Less Holiday Magic”—that many people are overwhelmed at the prospect of keeping up… Read More
Dec 8, 2022 If People are Making Your Holidays More ‘Harumph,” than “Ho, Ho, Ho,” Try This ‘Tis the season! Ostensibly… For many, the holidays are more stressful than stupendous, however, with arguments erupting over everything from what to do, (“We always play board games…”) to what… Read More
Dec 1, 2022 “You Should Have Told Me!”… Should I? Recently, I was having a conversation with my husband about whether he should speak to a friend about choices he was making that Keith and others found… wackadoodle. “I can’t… Read More
Nov 3, 2022 What Dogs, Cannabis, & Big Feelings Have in Common A few years ago, when CBD’s were becoming part of our everyday vocabulary, I listened to a terrific podcast on the subject. The reporter, who covers the marijuana industry for… Read More
Oct 27, 2022 Are You Treating the Cause—or the Symptom? How many times have you heard colleagues, friends, or family say, (or in the case of teenagers, yell,) “It’s not fair”? Alternatively, how often have you gotten the cold shoulder… Read More
Oct 20, 2022 Are You Keeping Track or Keeping Score….With Yourself? Last week I wrote about how to tell if someone in your life is keeping track or keeping score. Why? Because when people around you are keeping score it can… Read More
Oct 13, 2022 Are People in Your Life Keeping Track—or Keeping Score? This past week I was speaking with a client whose team was completing a large project. Things were going OK but, she said, but there was one team member whose… Read More
Oct 6, 2022 Are You Handing Out Enough High-Value Treats? The confluence of two things determined the content of this week’s blog post: The Chief People Officer of HubSpot, Katie Burke, posted about phrases we don’t hear enough at work.… Read More

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