I work with a lot of really brilliant and amazing people. Some of them are friends, some are clients, some are both.
There are days I wake up and wonder how I got so lucky. They’re not all “Oprah or Dr. Phil level” famous, but they should be.
They’re just really, really, really wise people. Most of them blog and every once in a while, actually on a regular basis, they post information that rocks my world. Today one of them, Lorraine Esposito, (who I hired as my own coach last year) …

In October I caught a mild respiratory virus. Nothing big. I had a runny nose, some sniffles, a few aches. It came and went in a few days and I thought nothing of it. Two weeks later however, I developed a sinus infection. Not a big deal. I have sinus issues as do most older folks living east of the Mississippi.
I live in a rural area with lots of trees, leaves, flowers, weeds and all the dusty allergy type generating stuff common to the east. It was also a rainy …

One of the trickiest things about personal boundaries for most people is understanding that other people have boundaries too.
I’ve noticed that people really love setting and enforcing their own boundaries, but when someone else’s boundaries conflict with theirs, they go ballistic. They either accuse the other person of trying to manipulate them, or they try to manipulate the other.
Case in point:
Last fall a friend of mine asked me to house-sit for her for a week. She lives about two hours away, a long drive. Her only request was, “No dogs.” …

For the past decade I’ve been battling Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyaliga and skin problems ranging from Chronic Hives to mild psoriasis. This month I added pneumonia on top of all that. I finally understand what old people mean when they say, “I’m tired and ready to die.” I had nothing left to give, and still, really, don’t. I have moments where some energy finds its way into me, but mostly? I sleep a lot.
I recently learned that fatigue, joint pain, foggy brain, tiredness, muscle aches, and all these symptoms I’ve …

I was sitting on the couch at my friend Patty Newbold’s house when I got the news I was selected to speak at TED Global 2009. She smiled for the entire time I sat there screaming, “I’m talking at TED! I’m talking at TED!” Then when the fear, shock and horror at having to actually TALK in front of a crowd set in, she was also there.
She was supportive, calm and my rock in a time I was feeling so uncertain. When I wrote my first speech she read it …