Our culture holds perfection in very high regard. Perfection is often expected, even demanded, in professional performance, as well as in personal conduct. Any path to success must bear no marks of errors in judgment, unreasonable slipups, and general faux pas. Professional mistakes are regularly the primary reason for demotion and dismissal. In the age…
“I’ve done everything I could. I don’t know what else to do. I need help.” This is the opening line I hear from most of my clients. Often the person uses it to describe a personal relationship situation, but it has been used to describe work situations by several others. When the conversation progresses, I…
The stress of working from home for months-on-end, needing to manage professional and home life in the same limited space, supporting school-age kids remote learning, all while doing what we can to remain healthy and avoid needing to go to a hospital. These are among the reasons why many of us are ready to open…
We are now a few weeks into a new year. A new administration is installed in Washington, DC, but the road to recovery is still being paved. The political atmosphere we experienced over the last five years and especially those of the past few months left many of us fearful and suspicious. We all have…
Responsibilities are our way of life. We learn them as children, grow with them, and they help us grow ourselves. Many responsibilities are obligatory for us as members of society, while others are voluntary; you must obey the law, you should get an education and a good job, and you can have a spouse and…
Many of us dream of becoming leaders and become a force for change. Be it directing teams and companies into success, being community leaders, or as volunteers with local institutions. Others direct these aspirations into political facets, running for different levels of office locally and beyond. Many try, but only a few succeed. Certain talents…
Let’s have an honest discussion about lies. I’ll start by admitting that I too, find myself lying, even if just a little, every once in a while. Let me explain. Someone (let’s assume it’s me) stands in line at the DMV to renew their driver’s license, as we all do every four years. At the…
Many, if not most of the women who come to seek life coaching from me, arrive with a similar story – they feel stuck. Stuck in a job that is stagnating, no longer able to find the joy they once did in it, or short on promotion prospects. Stuck in a marriage that no longer…
The corona-virus put us under varying degrees of lock-down since March of 2020. As of this writing, we have over a quarter-million dead as a result of the virus in the U.S., and there is no end to it in sight. Great forces have been steering the Covid-19 response, often in opposite directions. Scientists and…
At this time any other year we would be busy preparing for the holiday season; house decorating, gifts buying, and vacation planning, to name a few activities. This year, we are still trying to do some of these things, but with limited ability. The current season of transitions is capping a year that saw us…