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Oct 29, 2020 Don’t Let “For Worse” Friends Bring Out Your Worst A few years ago I wrote about “foul weather friends.” You know, the people who show up in your life the day you get laid off, your kid gets suspended,… Read More
Oct 22, 2020 How to Reset Your (Mental) Surge Protector Most of us know about the “fight or flight” response, triggered by our adrenal glands in stressful situations. For many of us, these glands have been in overdrive for months.… Read More
Oct 8, 2020 Be Source, Not Result: Press Pause on Shame, Anxiety, and Regret Few things are as pleasing as when my “yoga world” and my “business world” intersect in an overt way, as they did last week. Here’s what occurred: I met with… Read More
Oct 1, 2020 “You Can’t Make an Entrance if You Never Leave” This past week I was listening to an interview with Chris Rock during which he mentioned a piece of advice he had received from Lorne Michaels, “You can’t make an… Read More
Sep 24, 2020 “That’s Not My Problem” & Other Customer Service Missteps Should you be having a birthday, and be anywhere in my vicinity, I will happily be in charge of getting you a cake. (I am all about birthday cake. It… Read More
Sep 17, 2020 “There are Years that Ask Questions and Years that Answer” We’ve all had years that have asked us questions: we’ve gotten married or divorced, a parent has died, we’ve lost a job, illness has manifested, children have arrived… But I’m… Read More
Sep 10, 2020 “Thank You for Correcting Me” As I mentioned a few Wow’s ago, I’m in the midst of an online education course. This morning our teacher corrected a student’s Sanskrit pronunciation and she responded, “Thank you… Read More
Sep 3, 2020 Why—and How—to Tell Someone a Secret This past week a client confided to me that he had been keeping a secret from his business partner. (What the secret is is not germane to this conversation.) His… Read More
Aug 27, 2020 Hanging Out on the D.L. Was Seductive… (but Maybe It’s Not Anymore) For the last year or so, I have been nursing a knee situation. With this in play, I have not wanted to lower my lotus (pic, top right) down onto… Read More
Aug 20, 2020 What Tomatoes Can Teach Us About Trust—and Asking Effective Questions The last few weeks I have been making an enormous amount of tomato sauce and enrolled in an online course with 60 other students. What do these two things have… Read More

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