“No Pain, No Gain.” It’s the mantra of power lifters and athletes everywhere. “Pain is weakness leaving the body,” is another favorite. Ever since I’ve been active, which was a LOT in my teens, college and until I was about 30, I’ve believed that. If you didn’t hurt after working out or playing hard, you weren’t working hard enough. Last year at this time I hurt every day, because I was working out every day. I was spending 3- 4 hours a day in the gym, losing 5-10 pounds a …

I was out at midnight, in-between thunderstorms, digging in the mud and planting some tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers I picked up at Lowe’s last night. I knew it was supposed to rain all day today (even tho it didn’t) and I wanted to get the plants in the ground ASAP. My dog watched from the doorway, with a look on her face that said, “What are you doing?” But it was wonderful, digging in the soft earth, seeing the plants go in and knowing my garden was complete. I’m loving …

Clarity. So many of us want it, so few of us have it. Why not? Because we’re afraid to ask for what we need and what we want. We’re afraid to say “No,” for fear of offending someone or losing what we have already gotten. It’s tough enough to do with friends, but what happens when clarity with clients can make or break us? A friend sent me this video today and I loved it. It’s for creatives dealing with clients, but I think anyone who has a business …

Fools are some of the smartest people I know. I know. I used to be one and still am from time-to-time. Fools are also some of the most talented, brightest and seemingly intelligent people in the room. Yet they are still fools and I’ve learned that talking to them, or acting like one, hurts me more than it helps.
What is a fool? I’m using Dr. Henry Cloud’s definition from his most recent book, Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in …

(this lengthy post is a story, an amazing, never ceases to stun me sequence of events in my life, true story)
(Okay, that’s me 30 pounds ago - I LOST the 30) leaning over to shake author and TED Global Speaker Dan Pink’s hand after my TED talk in Oxford, England in 2009.)
Never say never because HOPE ALWAYS FINDS A WAY.
By that I mean never say miracles never happen. Never say “It won’t get better.” Miracles happen and it does get better. And yes, “Hope does find a way.”
Three years before …