Absolutely LOVED and hated Seth’s blog this morning. Why? Because for the past 30 years I’ve been learning to quiet my lizard brain like he said, but it’s only been this past year that I finally found something that works. It’s not quieting it. It’s listening to it.
Seth writes, “We say we want one thing, then we do another. We say we want to be successful but we sabotage the job interview. We say we want a product to come to market, but we sandbag the shipping schedule. We say …

Seth Godin’s new book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
launched yesterday, Jan. 26, 2010. It’s quite a piece of work - and a great read if you haven’t read much of Seth before. I wrote a lengthy review of it earlier, but wanted to sum it up in a different way today. Linchpins, according to Seth, are not only those tiny pieces of cotter-pin that hold a machine together - they’re the critical and most important pin. Usually unnoticed until they fail, they make the rest of the machine, or in …

Okay. It made my day. Suze Orman, internationally acclaimed financial wizard, Oprah money guru, and kick-ass woman, LIVED and WORKED out of a van in her 20’s. Just freaking made my day. Changed my whole attitude and perception of her as someone who “doesn’t understand us paycheck-to-paycheck” people.
And I quote, from her book Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny
“I borrowed $1,500 from my brother to buy a Ford Econoline van and, with the help of my friend Mary Corlin (a great friend to this day), converted …

“It’s not who you are that holds you back. It’s who you think you are not.” -Anonymous

You can learn a lot about life from volunteering at a race. I recently joined a local running club, and have started volunteering at races. Today I learned an incredibly powerful truth, well a couple actually.
I learned (again) that appearances can be deceiving. Of the 800 people running, not all the folks who were skinny and looked good in spandex were fast runners. Many of the front runners, true, looked like runners. But when it came to the middle of the pack….there were quite a few people my size and …