The Barbie movie and all its hype is pretty well-deserved in my humble opinion. If you haven’t seen it yet, you really should. I was expecting a lot of girl power stuff (and was not disappointed). What I wasn’t expecting was a demonstration of why extremes are so harmful, in any direction. I also wasn’t …
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People talk about treating their co-workers differently than they treat their spouses or kids, or even friends. And yet, blurring the lines between our public and private lives happens all the time. If you’re experiencing frustration, confusion, disappointment, and a lack of accountability, you may be blurring the lines between your public and private lives. …
My 14-year old spent the first semester doing school through a virtual program. This meant a whole lot of self-guided study. It was asynchronous learning. While there was a mentor teacher available to him, she had 150 other students to oversee and if he wasn’t reaching out, he flew under her radar most of the …
I read a very short blog post from Seth Godin about a week ago, and it has stuck with me. I decided I needed to explore the idea a little more. Here’s the brief post: Unacceptable The word has a very specific meaning, which is why it’s so powerful. If we accept behavior that’s unacceptable, …
How do you think about leadership? Not the textbook or Google definition. What does it actually mean to you? How does your mindset help you? How does it hurt you? How do all of your answers to these questions inform your style of leadership? “It’s not the outer conditions of your life that determine your …
One of our hard-wired tendencies relates to how easy it is to adapt to new or changing situations. On one end of the spectrum are the folks for whom it is very uncomfortable to adapt unless specific conditions exist. If those conditions do not exist, they will likely push back, become flustered, and their stress …
James was growing frustrated with Fran. She would not take the project in the direction he felt it should go. When he tried telling her how the direction he was suggesting would yield a better result, she listened. Fran wasn’t trying to upset her colleague. His frustration was causing her stress. But she did what …
Micro-management is somewhat open to interpretation. One person’s desire for more contact and interaction with their manager is another person’s worst nightmare. Rhonda may feel like she wants more direction and collaboration. She wants to make sure she’s in alignment with her boss’s priorities. Josephine may feel as though she is being smothered by a …
When my kids were small, I struggled to parent with patience. I didn’t have a great roadmap for the kind of parent I wanted to be. A friend turned me onto “Parenting with Love and Logic”. I attribute my sanity to these books. My kids are teenagers now, and the wisdom in these books continues …
My bonus kid is living with us doing virtual school this fall. Our house rules are different from what she’s used to. One rule is no phones until AFTER all of your schoolwork is done for the day, you’ve finished your chores, gotten 30 minutes of exercise, and spent at least 30 minutes being creative …
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