Our air conditioner went on the blink this last week. After a lightning strike a couple of weeks ago, we are slowly discovering the damage. Before you worry if we had to sweat our way through the extreme heat, it wasn’t that. Instead of a hot house, we woke to 63 degrees. Brrrrr. As I […]
Originally posted March 2017 What is the thing we want more than anything else in the world – and yet we don’t want it at all? In my experience, that would be change. It’s as if our brains somehow think that the order of the universe is stability and equilibrium. Nothing could be further from […]
When I was a kid, my parents tolerated a months-long obsession with balancing mobiles. A friend at a birthday party gave me a simple three bar hanging mobile as a gift, not knowing what this simple trinket would spark. After putting it together, we went to hang it from the ceiling of the room I […]
Originally posted March 2016 I posted this blog four years ago, and in these times of the pandemic, this blog is even more relevant today. It’s about reinvention and as the world is being reinvented in ways we have never seen and feels uncomfortable and abnormal, it’s important to remember something; reinvention IS normal. I was speaking […]
Originally Published: Feb 2020 Once again, it took skiing to remind me of a core business principle. In this case, it’s the principle that in many cases you must “go slow to go fast.” The idea is simple – if you take a pause rather than working as if you are living in a […]
A few weeks ago, I interviewed Warwick Schiller on my podcast in a long conversation that barely scratched the surface of his wealth of knowledge in working with horses. On a podcast about the balancing acts of work and life, you might think he was chosen as a guest to add weight to the “life […]
We found a snake in our chicken coop recently. I was unhappy to be sure – but maybe not for the reasons you might think. Few things scare people more than snakes. It’s an almost universal aversion that for some reason, I do not have. Instead, snakes fascinate me. When I was a kid, my Dad would tell […]
When I was first learning to ski the slalom course, I sat in the boat watching people who could run the course thinking “How hard could that be?” I learned to get up on a slalom ski at age 15. Just doing that felt like a huge accomplishment. I would get up, celebrate that I […]
Originally Posted July 22, 2016 The conversation started as she walked in looking haggard and weary. “I’m so drained, today I can’t be the leader I want to be.” She continued, by saying “I feel like a bitch asking for help –but there is no way I can do all of this by myself.” Unknowingly, […]
When I was learning to ride my bike as a child, the huge moment came the day my Dad took off the training wheels. I would finally get to be like the other big kids! In my kid brain, I thought it would be a simple matter of getting on and doing what I had done so many times before, only like a grown up. Not even close.
It took many falls and skinned knees until the moment of cheating occurred. I would get on, try to pedal and before the other foot could make the circle, the bike would fall over. I became acutely aware of just how much those training wheels had held me up.