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I’m holding an Allen Key.
Even when we are with the people we trust the most, we instinctively hold on to our “shitty” ideas. We know they are unformed, and…
To be IN integrity means hearing that you screw up sometimes.
“Why can’t they just see that they are wrong?”
Over the winter break, I promised my kid a day or two of Mom Camp… those days during a school break where I take off work, plan a couple of…
What comes to mind when you hear the word conflict? Did other words like misunderstanding, and frustration come to mind? Did you physically…
“So who do you think would win in the air soccer battle? The griffins or the octopus in octo-bubbles?”
Sometimes the most profound messages from the universe come when we are least expecting them — like, say, watching some old Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes with your nine-year-old child.
The power of holding multiple, conflicting truths.
If I see one well-intended mistake my customers make over and over again, it’s that they confuse “doing data” — having a flurry of…
I was really struggling with how to talk about my intention for 2021. The idea of saying out loud that I intended to “do less” didn’t sound…
Last fall at my business retreat, I did a guided visualization. As I began drawing what I hoped my year ahead would become, I imagined my…
How much stress can a Lego® bridge handle?
The memory of this episode, and specifically the clutching-at-the-heart-anticipation, came vividly back to me in a conversation with a colleague last week. The sudden switch to remote teaming was exacerbating fissures and stresses that already existed within their team, and that the manager had hoped would resolve.
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